Vulnerability news from FierceCIO

Microsoft has a new security problem, and there is no way to fix it. Security firm Symantec told USA Today that cybercriminals have already found the vulnerability, which affects PCs using Windows XP... Read more...

The Chinese government's plan to force the installation of content-filtering software on all PCs sold in the country could throw open the gates to a massive security breach. Called Green Dam-Youth... Read more...

A new class of DOS attacks threatens to disrupt wireless data networks. Krishan Sabnani, vice president of networking research at Bell Labs, gave this dire warning when he spoke at the Cyber... Read more...

Microsoft's Patch Tuesday for the month of May is next week, and with just one security bulletin, it appears to be a much easier month for security and system administrators. IT departments should... Read more...

Microblogging site Twitter was pummeled by a worm over the weekend. Michael Mooney, a 17 year old has since come forward and confessed to BNONews.com that he was responsible. Mooney essentially... Read more...

Barely hours after Microsoft's official launch of Internet Explorer 8, Nils, a computer science student from Germany managed to break into a Sony laptop running Windows 7 and IE8. The hack was... Read more...

Microsoft has just one security bulletin for the first Patch Tuesday of the New Year. Rated as critical, the problem appears to be a remote code execution vulnerability affecting various versions of... Read more...

Right after the largest Patch Tuesday release in five years, earlier this week, comes news of a new vulnerability discovered in Microsoft's SQL Server 2000. By leveraging this flaw, a remote attacker... Read more...

A critical buffer overflow bug has been found in yet another computerized control system that is used to run vital national infrastructure, such as electrical grids. Researchers from specialist firm... Read more...

Security researcher Kaminsky, who first discovered the DNS exploit that had organizations around the world scrambling to patch their Domain Name Servers (DNS), spoke to a packed session at the Black... Read more...