Cyberattackers are exploiting the assassination of former Pakistani Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto to spread malware, according to researchers at numerous anti-virus vendors.
In the final draft of its upcoming security guidelines for protecting federal information systems, the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) is recommending that federal agencies conduct regular penetration tests to determine whether their networks can be breached.
In its inaugural report on the overall state of internet security, Cisco is predicting bigger attacks in 2008 from the Storm botnet as its creators let criminals buy the use of Storm's millions of zombie computers to launch massive spam or DoS attacks.
Google has halted the spread of a worm on its social networking website, Orkut, but not before the self-replicating script reportedly spread to more than 400,000 member profiles.
Google text advertisements are being hijacked by a trojan that redirects users to pitches from another provider, according to researchers at BitDefender.
Numerous vulnerabilities have been identified in Adobe's popular Flash Player that allow attackers to gain control over a user's PC and use it as a launching pad to obtain sensitive data, inject arbitrary code, launch cross-site scripting attacks and mount privilege escalation attacks on servers hosting cross-domain policy files.
Apple has issued patches to correct at least 40 vulnerabilities in its Mac operating system that could permit an attacker to install malicious software on a victim's machine
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