Malware

A sustained attack against the nation's natural gas pipelines, apparently orchestrated by the same malicious party, is proving difficult to quell.

Adobe on Friday issued an emergency patch for a critical bug in its Flash Player software that is being used in targeted malware attacks.

Mobile virus authors have adopted another tactic from their PC-sabotaging counterparts: infecting websites to spread their wares.

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Threat of the month: Chrome exploit

Security firm Symantec's latest "Internet Security Threat Report" found that malicious attacks and malware variants are more prevalent than ever, and are being delivered to their victims in mass and targeted ways.

A security researcher who reported a vulnerability in the popular Oracle database product said Thursday that his discovery was never patched and remains wide open to attack.