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In a few weeks, hundreds of hackers will descend on Las Vegas for the Defcon/Black Hat conferences and do their absolute best to never set foot outside of the hotels in the ungodly heat. One of the ...
If businesses and consumers stuck to security basics, they could have avoided all cases of Conficker worm infection detected on 1.7 million systems by Microsoft researchers in the last half of 2011.
In early April, the US Department of Homeland Security (DHS) delivered a blistering report excoriating Microsoft’s lax security practices, which allowed Chinese spies to hack into the accounts of high ...
Some security patches take time. Seven-and-a-half years, in fact, if you count the time it’s taken Microsoft to patch a security issue in its SMB (Server Message Block) service, fixed Tuesday. This ...
Update, May 11, 2025: This story, originally published May 9, has been updated with more details on the move towards greater cloud Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVE) transparency by both ...
Feds say Microsoft security ‘requires an overhaul’ — but will it listen? The Department of Homeland Security is slamming Microsoft for what it calls a ‘cascade’ of avoidable errors that allowed a high ...
It’s the middle of 2022 and it’s a perfect time to review your plans, goals and risks to your network, especially given the changing threat landscape. Ransomware, for example, has become more human ...