Security Strategy, Plan, Budget

Apple this week released three patches for OS X version 10.5 -- widely known as Leopard -- fixing issues in Application Firewall.

October was a scary month for IT administrators in charge of filtering spam, according to a pair of reports from messaging security firms.

Apple on Wednesday released security updates for Mac OS X and Safari Beta 3, patching nearly 50 vulnerabilities.

Microsoft has made the second generation of its desktop anti-virus suite available for download today; CD-issued copies of the program will be available next week.

Some 250,000 computer users, who likely never knew their machines had been seeded with the notorious Storm Worm virus, received confirmation this week when a pop-up stock spam message appeared on their desktops.

A team of university researchers have disclosed a flaw in Windows 2000's random number generator (RNG). Microsoft has downplayed the vulnerability, saying it could only be exploited by a user of the victimized computer.

Less than a week after disappearing from the web, the Russian Business Network (RBN) has cut short its re-emergence in China.