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Researchers have discussed publicly a generic MITM (man in the middle) attack against SSL 3.0 and TLS 1.0 connections. These are widely used to provide secure and authenticated connections across networks, including the Internet, and are the basis of...
The House Financial Services Committee has approved a bill, the Investor Protection Act, which requires to Internet Service Providers (ISPs) to block any traffic on their networks which fraudulently invokes the Securities Investor Protection...
Symantec has written of a video game for the Mac that has real-world consequences for your computer. For every alien you shoot in the game, a file is deleted from your home directory.
There's nothing surreptitious going on. The game developer says...
Sun has released Java 1.6.0_17-b04, which translates to Java 6 with an external version number of 6u17 and an internal build of 04.
The individual bugs are listed in the Release Notes for the update. Detailed descriptions of the vulnerabilities fixed...
Just a few months after setting a regular Patch Tuesday schedule synchronized with Microsoft's, Adobe has gone "out of band" with an update to the Shockwave player.
The new version of Shockwave, 11.5.2.602, fixes 5 vulnerabilities in prior versions...
