Microsoft plans to issue a security bulletin next Tuesday, September 9, about critical vulnerabilities affecting various Windows-based systems.Microsoft Gives Advance Notice Of Critical UpdatesThe company plans to host a webcast to address customer questions about the security bulletins on Wednesday

Both the number of botnets and the size of individual botnets have quadrupled in the past 90 days, according to security researchers. Despite the sudden influx, spam and malware has not increased correspondingly, making the case more mysterious.Botnets Increase Four

In case you didn't know, it's kind of important to be nice to your IT staff. You know why? Yeah, you know why; they have access to everything and can sink or expose your entire system. And guess what? A

You know the bad guys are after your money and identity via traditional methods already. Did you know security experts are warning against attackers going after your or your kids' virtual currency?Next Malware Breeding Ground: Online Games?Dr. Igor Muttik, senior

NASA has confirmed that some laptops on the International Space Station have been infected with the W31.Gammima.AG virus, a worm that steals users names and passwords for online games.NASA Confirms Virus On Space StationSymantec detected the virus on August 27,

As far as possible security exploits this sounds pretty bad. Well, not just "possible" and not just "bad." A demonstrated exploit of the internet routing protocol BGP (Border Gateway Protocol) is potentially catastrophic to the Internet.BGP Exploit Is Big Uh-Oh

The somewhat romantic myth about honor among thieves is hereby debunked. The latest attempt at wriggling into your system comes in the form of a ransom note.No, Hackers Didn't Hijack Your BabyThe email, which to open or read probably won't

Best Western says rumors of its pwning are greatly exaggerated. That's likely true, given the heaps of superlatives weighting down a Sunday Herald exclusive claiming an Indian hacker helped the Russian cyber mafia make off with $5 billion of guest

Not that you would, but don't get all excited about an email from MSN about has-been pop starlet Madonna in a new sex tape. The link leads to (whodathunkit?) the wrong kind of Trojan.Madonna Lust Could Lead To InfectionThe email

Some mind-blowingly smart scientists from the University of Michigan, US Naval Research Lab, and the University of California at San Diego, have figured out how to use lasers to trap an electron in a dark state. That means lots of

IT pros shouldn't rely on discoverers of security flaws to keep quiet about it; sometimes glory (or competition) outweighs etiquette. They shouldn't rely on the courts to keep researchers quiet about it either-a Massachusetts judge just overruled a gag order

Used to be you just had to worry about hackers, journalists, and security firms exploiting and making public any security flaws in your system. Now you have to worry about competitors.The Princeton Review (TPR) graced the pages of the New

The recent increase in Mac popularity has made it more of a target. The most recent attack comes in the form of spyware and operates by hijacking users' clipboards to spread links to malicious sites.Mac Spyware Hijacks ClipboardReported by Safari

China's Olympic gymnasts consist of athletes under the permitted age of competition, as illustrated at length by a number of hard-charging online sources.Bloggers Nail China On Olympian Age LiesProving the Chinese Olympic overlords of straightforward gross dishonesty about the ages

Software clients from BitTorrent and uTorrent contain critical vulnerabilities that could permit remote code execution.BitTorrent Clients Suffer Overflow FlawThe BitTorrent protocol permit fast sharing of files through a peer to peer process. Since people use it to move copyrighted material

Critical fixes arrived for Microsoft applications in the August edition of their Patch Tuesday round of updates, including corrections for overflow vulnerabilities in image file formats in Microsoft Office.Specially crafted files in one of several image formats could have posed

Sites for Georgia fled the country in favor of hosting elsewhere as numerous DDOS attacks from Russia took out Georgian web properties.In looking at the ongoing digital conflict taking place, it appears if there is a World War 3, some

A trio of MIT students planned to talk about the Boston subway's inherent problems with its payment card system, but an injunction took their presentation off the Defcon slate of topics.Subway Card Hackers Can't Talk At DefconIt seems like an

With a dozen patches on tap for Microsoft for August 12th, security pros should note seven of them will arrive as fixes for critical issues.Critical Microsoft Patches Arriving TuesdayA Critical-rated patch means the problem presents a threat of being remotely

The Summer Olympics, the NFL, and the ongoing Presidential campaigns all present ripe content for spammers and the malware they try to deliver to victims.Sports, Politics Ride Latest Spam WaveGetting malware onto a machine depends on how well the criminal