August 2009


XSS flaw opened door to bogus swine flu advice Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerabilities on the National Health Service's website created a means to send spoofed emails with dodgy medical advice. The vulnerabilities, now fixed, also created a potential means to run information-harvesting attacks.… The power of collaboration within unified communications

Some of the UK's biggest banks appear to have poor online security measures, leaving their customers vulnerable to fraud, a consumer group has claimed.

Red-faced retailer apologizes In a blunder that might top the Baby Shaker app on Apple's App Store, retailing giant Sears.com has been caught offering a Bar-B-Que grill specially designed to roast infants and other human morsels.… The power of collaboration within unified communications

WhiteHat Security, the leading provider of website risk management solutions, today announced the Company has been ranked 495th by Inc. magazine's 28th annual Inc. 500, an exclusive ranking of the nation's fastest-growing private companies.

Do you use your kids' names? Your pet's? Your favorite color? We all use some dumb passwords that are too easy to guess. Worse, we use the same ones for lots of Web sites. So if one site gets compromised, or an employee there is dishonest, someone could start… Sponsored Topics: Password - Website - Security - Windows - Shareware

The security issues are getting more and more acute as the companies are speeding up the web application development process, racing to get their products to the market.

WatchGuard Technologies’ acquisition of BorderWare Technologies is a big win for the vendor's disties according to IT distributor, Open Systems Australia.

Millions of Twitter and Facebook users were unable to access their accounts following a cyber attack on the world's most popular online social networks.