Robert Lemos

A security analyst tries his hand at selling two vulnerabilities and finds that economics and time are against him.
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A security researcher warns that an insecure update mechanism for some of the open-source browser’s third-party add-ons could allow an attacker the ability to install malicious code.
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Attackers compromise the hub servers of the DC++ peer-to-peer network, turning hundreds of thousands of clients into hard-to-stop distributed denial-of-service attacks.
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A Congressional committee calls for the Nuclear Regulatory Commission to further investigate the cause of excessive network traffic that shut down an Alabama nuclear plant.
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Only a few weeks after researchers raised the design issue in the next-generation Internet protocol, two drafts to the Internet Engineering Task Force propose different fixes.
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Federal prosecutors claim the company and its owners violated federal funds transfer laws, saying it knowingly served online scammers, identity thieves and child pornographers.
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Researchers use a previously unknown flaw in Apple’s Safari browser to compromise a MacBook Pro and win the PWN to Own contest, but does the hack actually prove anything?
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UPDATE: More on the vulnerability, which is a Java flaw in QuickTime.

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On the same day that Apple releases an update for its Mac OS X, security professionals at a conference in Canada show little initial interest in attempting to crack the security of two MacBook Pros.
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Latest malicious software throws in more obfuscation and works harder to foil defenders’ attempts at reverse engineering.
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In an annual report card mandated by federal law, two dozen federal agencies improve their average grade slightly from last year’s ‘D+’.
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