Security in 2007: Zero-Day World Puts Bull’s-Eye on Vista
Security in 2007: Zero-Day World Puts Bull’s-Eye on Vista
The big security questions that experts say will be answered in 2007: Who will find the first major Vista flaw? Is spam going to be canned? Will there be a month of Apple bugs?
Month of Apple Bugs Debuts in January
An anonymous reader writes “A pair of security researchers has picked January 2007 as the Month of Apple Bugs, a project in which each passing day will feature a previously undocumented security hole in Apple’s OS X operating system or in Apple applications that run on top of it. According to a post over at The Washington Post’s Security Fix blog, the project is being put together by researchers …
Allchin defends Vista’s security credentials
The argument between Sophos and Microsoft over the security of Windows Vista took another turn on Tuesday when Microsoft co-president Jim Allchin stepped in to try and calm things down.
Hackers call on Skype to spread Trojan
Malware authors are using Skype to help spread a pair of Trojan packages. The malware does not exploit flaws in Skype as such, as a computer worm might …