Stories about: CERT

ActiveX controls accounted for an overwhelming majority of all browser plug-in vulnerabilities in the second half of 2007, Symantec said this week in its semi-annual Web security report.

A noted ActiveX researcher Monday revealed a bug in RealNetworks' RealPlayer that could be exploited by attackers to hijack Windows machines running nternet Explorer.

Part of security software vendor CA's Web site was hacked last week and was redirecting visitors to a malicious Web site hosted in China.

Security experts are saying that a reported al-Qaeda cyber jihad attack planned against Western institutions should be treated with skepticism.

May was not a good month for geeks in Estonia.

Mozilla late Monday updated the Firefox browser for the second time this month to patch a pair of vulnerabilities, including yet another flaw in how it parses malformed URLs that can call up other applications.

Russia has been used as the launch-pad for a new wave of cyberattacks aimed at a number of political and media organizations within the country.

Australia needs to increase the funding and expand initiatives to protect critical infrastructure if it is to avoid a cyber war similar to the one that has struck Estonia for the past three weeks, according to a Deakin University professor.

A spree of denial-of-service (DOS) attacks against Web sites in Estonia appears to be subsiding, as the government calls for greater response mechanisms to cyber attacks within the European Union.

A large group of organizations led by the SANS Institute has launched a new information security skills assessment and certification program for software programmers.

A flaw in Snort, the popular open-source intrusion detection system, could be used by attackers to run malicious code on vulnerable machines, several security organizations reported Monday.