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LAS VEGAS — A popular laptop theft-recovery service that ships on notebooks made by HP, Dell, Lenovo, Toshiba, Gateway, Asus and Panasonic is actually a dangerous BIOS rootkit that can be hijacked and controlled by malicious hackers.The service — called Computrace LoJack for Laptops — contains design vulnerabilities and a lack of strong authentication  that [...]

LAS VEGAS — A popular laptop theft-recovery service that ships on notebooks made by HP, Dell, Lenovo, Toshiba, Gateway, Asus and Panasonic is actually a dangerous BIOS rootkit that can be hijacked and controlled by malicious hackers.The service — called Computrace LoJack for Laptops — contains design vulnerabilities and a lack of strong authentication  that [...]

LAS VEGAS — A popular laptop theft-recovery service that ships on notebooks made by HP, Dell, Lenovo, Toshiba, Gateway, Asus and Panasonic is actually a dangerous BIOS rootkit that can be hijacked and controlled by malicious hackers.The service — called Computrace LoJack for Laptops — contains design vulnerabilities and a lack of strong authentication  that [...]

LAS VEGAS — A popular laptop theft-recovery service that ships on notebooks made by HP, Dell, Lenovo, Toshiba, Gateway, Asus and Panasonic is actually a dangerous BIOS rootkit that can be hijacked and controlled by malicious hackers.The service — called Computrace LoJack for Laptops — contains design vulnerabilities and a lack of strong authentication  that [...]

LAS VEGAS — A popular laptop theft-recovery service that ships on notebooks made by HP, Dell, Lenovo, Toshiba, Gateway, Asus and Panasonic is actually a dangerous BIOS rootkit that can be hijacked and controlled by malicious hackers.The service — called Computrace LoJack for Laptops — contains design vulnerabilities and a lack of strong authentication  that [...]

LAS VEGAS — A popular laptop theft-recovery service that ships on notebooks made by HP, Dell, Lenovo, Toshiba, Gateway, Asus and Panasonic is actually a dangerous BIOS rootkit that can be hijacked and controlled by malicious hackers.The service — called Computrace LoJack for Laptops — contains design vulnerabilities and a lack of strong authentication  that [...]

LAS VEGAS — A popular laptop theft-recovery service that ships on notebooks made by HP, Dell, Lenovo, Toshiba, Gateway, Asus and Panasonic is actually a dangerous BIOS rootkit that can be hijacked and controlled by malicious hackers.The service — called Computrace LoJack for Laptops — contains design vulnerabilities and a lack of strong authentication  that [...]

For years spammers relied on basic mass marketing concepts in an attempt to target everyone, everywhere, thereby sacrificing quality for quantity.Things changed, at least for some of them. Realizing the advantages of market segmentation, certain spammers started segmenting the databases of harvested or emails based on their country of origin, followed by an attempt to [...]

For years spammers relied on basic mass marketing concepts in an attempt to target everyone, everywhere, thereby sacrificing quality for quantity.Things changed, at least for some of them. Realizing the advantages of market segmentation, certain spammers started segmenting the databases of harvested or emails based on their country of origin, followed by an attempt to [...]

For years spammers relied on basic mass marketing concepts in an attempt to target everyone, everywhere, thereby sacrificing quality for quantity.Things changed, at least for some of them. Realizing the advantages of market segmentation, certain spammers started segmenting the databases of harvested or emails based on their country of origin, followed by an attempt to [...]

For years spammers relied on basic mass marketing concepts in an attempt to target everyone, everywhere, thereby sacrificing quality for quantity.Things changed, at least for some of them. Realizing the advantages of market segmentation, certain spammers started segmenting the databases of harvested or emails based on their country of origin, followed by an attempt to [...]

For years spammers relied on basic mass marketing concepts in an attempt to target everyone, everywhere, thereby sacrificing quality for quantity.Things changed, at least for some of them. Realizing the advantages of market segmentation, certain spammers started segmenting the databases of harvested or emails based on their country of origin, followed by an attempt to [...]

The current zero-day attacks against Adobe Flash Player are not quite zero-day after all.   According to new information, Adobe’s security response team knew about the vulnerability since December 31, 2008 (see image below) but it was misdiagnosed as a “data loss corruption” issue.When word of the attacks surfaced this week, Adobe quickly locked access to [...]

The current zero-day attacks against Adobe Flash Player are not quite zero-day after all.   According to new information, Adobe’s security response team knew about the vulnerability since December 31, 2008 (see image below) but it was misdiagnosed as a “data loss corruption” issue.When word of the attacks surfaced this week, Adobe quickly locked access to [...]

The current zero-day attacks against Adobe Flash Player are not quite zero-day after all.   According to new information, Adobe’s security response team knew about the vulnerability since December 31, 2008 (see image below) but it was misdiagnosed as a “data loss corruption” issue.When word of the attacks surfaced this week, Adobe quickly locked access to [...]

Guest editorial by Oliver DayChinese military leaders have always been aware of the military advantage the US has over the People’s Liberation Army.  Reading through their published assessments of Sino-US war possibilities confirm our belief that we would dominate them in the air, land and sea.  However the PLA was born of asymmetric warfare and [...]

Security researchers said the threat is minimal, because attacks in the wild are targeting previous versions of Adobe's media player.

Researchers discovered more than 200,000 Web pages set up to exploit a zero day in Adobe Flash Player.

Adobe Systems Inc. has patched multiple Adobe Flash Player flaws attackers could exploit to hijack computers and cause a variety of damage.

While much of the IT world focused on Microsoft’s July 2007 security update Tuesday, Adobe was busy releasing some fixes of its own.The first fix is for critical flaws in Adobe Flash Player attackers could exploit to take control of the affected system. “A malicious SWF must be loaded in Flash Player by the user [...]  read more »