Cisco announces new vulnerabilities, while attackers exploit an unpatched flaw in the software that runs SpreadFirefox.com. Also: Symantec's site targeted. Microsoft is working on a patch for a flaw that could allow attackers to remotely crash Windows PCs.
July 15, 2005
Attack on SpreadFirefox.com, the online hub for Mozilla's Firefox marketing efforts, may have exposed user data.
July 15, 2005
Combined mass-mailing worm and network worm attempts to hijack computers and to launch a DOS attack on Symantec's Web site.
July 15, 2005
Company points out several vulnerabilities in its products, one of which could take down Cisco IP telephony networks.
July 14, 2005
Service aims to tell subscribers if their network is home to compromised PCs being used to send spam.
July 15, 2005
"Critical" flaws in widely used security authentication technology could expose many software products to hacker attack.
July 13, 2005
Man accused of hacking government sites says he was initially trying to prove the feds know about the existence of extraterrestrials.
July 13, 2005 related coverage
Takeover of security intelligence company is intended to boost VeriSign's managed-security services.
July 13, 2005
Stewart Baker, an influential and polarizing Washington figure, is chosen to oversee Homeland Security's new policy-planning efforts.
July 13, 2005
New official in the Department of Homeland Security will lead fight against "cyber and telecommunications attacks."
July 13, 2005