SAN FRANCSICO, Ca. - Mozilla on Tuesday released Firefox 3.0.12, an update to the open-source browser that fixes five critical security vulnerabilities and fixes a handful of other bugs. "We strongly recommend that all Firefox 3.0.x users upgrade to this latest release," Mozilla said on its developer blog. "If you already have Firefox 3, you
WASHINGTON DC - America's cyber czar, despite the impressive title, may not be such a coveted job after all. As early as this week, President Obama is expected to appoint a national cybersecurity adviser, who will report to the oval office and run the White House's efforts to defend the government from hackers and cyberspies.
NEW YORK - A study released Tuesday by the privacy-focused Ponemon Institute, companies' chief executives tend to value cybersecurity just as - if not more - highly than their executive colleagues. But compared to lower-level execs, CEOs also tend to underestimate the frequency of cyberthreats their organization faces. The survey, which was funded by cybersecurity
WASHINGTON DC - It is possible to use publicly available data on state and date of birth to predict someone's Social Security number, particularly if they were born after 1988 and in smaller states, according to an article published Monday in The Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. The ability to use statistic inference
ANN ARBOR - ERT Systems, which makes automated tracking systems for first responders, has released P.A.R. Version 4, an enhanced version of its emergency resource tracking and scene management software. "Version 4 adds a number of new features which greatly improve ease-of-use and overall scene management," said Dennis Carmichael, President of ERT Systems. "They include
TORONTO - Cyber-criminals continue to show just how enterprising they can be. Finjan's Malicious Code Research Center has discovered a trading platform that enables cyber-criminals to buy and sell botnets - essentially a one-stop shop for such activity. In its research, Finjan's MCRC discovered the existence of the Golden Cash network, which consists of a
LANSING - While Michigan relies on property and business taxes to a greater degree than other states, it ranks 30th overall among all states in terms of actual dollar per capita tax burden, a study by the Senate Fiscal Agency shows. However, when considering the percentage against personal income that state and local taxes represent,
REDMOND, Wa. - Microsoft plans to announce next month more of the business details behind its Windows Azure operating system, a cloud-based operating system. The software maker unveiled the operating system at a developer conference last year. It has said that some of the services, currently in free testing, will be released in final form
SAN DIEGO - Security firm Websense has put out an advisory warning Web site owners about malicious code that redirects surfers to seemingly safe sites. About 40,000 Web sites appear to have been compromised with rogue JavaScript code that redirects Web surfers to a fake Google Analytics site, after which they get passed onto a
SEATTLE - Online scammers are targeting people looking for popular topics on Twitter and Google to lure them to Web sites that display fake security warnings and try to sell them antivirus products, PandaLabs reported. This technique isn't new, but seems to be widening on Google and is particularly successful on Twitter where links are