Caught offside with Trojan downloader code Hackers have successfully planted malware on a website selling tickets for the upcoming Euro 2008 Championships.… Read more…
Booby trap threat Compromised websites are staying infected longer. Some infected sites stay up and running for as long as two months, according to an annual report from web security firm ScanSafe.… Read more…
Fear of a Black Hat Apple is trailing way behind Microsoft in security patch responsiveness, according to a study by security researchers from IBM.… Read more…
Iliad reader carries unwelcome surprise An adware package has turned up on the latest e-book devices from iRex, and will install itself automatically onto a connected PC if it gets the chance.… Read more…
Contestant overcomes bout of ‘hacktile dysfunction’ CanSecWest A laptop running a fully patched version of Microsoft’s Vista operating system was the second and final machine to fall in a hacking contest that pitted the security of Windows, OS X and Ubuntu Linux. With both a Windows and Mac machine felled, only the Linux box remained [...]