Cupid's arrows are the least of your worries these Valentine's Day, says security firm Sophos. According to their research at least 82 per cent of systems administrators find electronic greeting cards IT security risks
Microsoft's next version of its instant messenger application will have a new security feature to report users who send unsolicited messages, known as SPIM (spam over IM).
Microsoft Corp. released the second installment of its now monthly security bulletins, patching three software holes in Windows systems that it said were critical security risks and a fourth problem with Microsoft Office that the company rated important.
A security company said Tuesday that it found an example of working computer source code that exploits the latest critical security hole disclosed by Microsoft Corp.
Security experts are warning Microsoft Corp. customers about silent Internet attacks that exploit a security flaw in the Internet Explorer Web browser, potentially allowing remote attackers to run malicious code on vulnerable machines.
A security hole in America Online Inc.'s ICQ chat program could allow attackers to run the code of their choice on a computer using the program, the U.S. federally-funded computer security organization Computer Emergency Response Team Coordination Center (CERT/CC) said in an advisory Thursday.