Security Strategy, Plan, Budget

For-profit attacks on Apple's Mac operating system could become more common in 2008 because of the platform's increasing market share, according to Sophos.

The amount of malware captured last year increased by 800 percent over 2006, researchers said this week.

Adobe on Wednesday released two patches to protect against cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks.

Wireless LAN vendor AirDefense disparaged vendors at the National Retail Federation (NRF) Convention and Expo, which took place this week in New York, for slipshod airborne web-security practices.

Microsoft has warned Windows and Mac users that cyberattackers are remotely exploiting a flaw in Excel to take over computers.

Script-based attacks that cycle through multiple exploits and target trusted websites, increasingly sophisticated botnets, and cyberespionage that uses phishing to steal terabytes of data head SANS Institute's Top 10 list of 2008 security menaces.

An Italian researcher has identified a flaw in Apple's QuickTime media application that can allow an attacker to perform a DoS attack or take control of an affected PC.