Robert Lemos

This will be a bit of departure for my normal all-security-all-the-time (though, not too far). Lawrence Lessing, founder of the Center for Internet and Society and a professor of law at Stanford University, gave the opening keynote at LinuxWorld on Tuesday, and frankly, the presentation was one of the better ones that I’ve seen in [...]

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The low hanging fruit for vulnerability researchers is no longer found in the operating system, but among common applications and device drivers, say flaw finders.
SecurityFocus

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Attackers are adopting open-source development practices, creating malware faster, and giving defenders less time to react.
PC Magazine

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One researcher’s promise to release a browser bug every day during the month of July escalates the debate over the degree of openness that helps security.
SecurityFocus

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Want to know how many flaws will be in your next version? Using historical data, university researchers hope to be able to tell you.
SecurityFocus

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Security researchers are starting to aim network fuzzers away from servers and toward browsers, finding that dozens of flaws have been missed.
SecurityFocus

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Vulnerability researchers like getting paid for their research, but software companies criticize the programs. Do vulnerability-purchasing initiatives make sense?
SecurityFocus

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Robert Lemos interviews Kevin Finisterre, founder of security startup Digital Munition, who created the three recent versions of the InqTana worm to raise awareness of security in Apple’s OS X. Finisterre discusses his reasons for creating the worms, the problems with Mac OS X security, and why he does not fear prosecution.
SecurityFocus

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Two worms and an exploit for Apple’s operating system hardly threaten consumers’ computers, but should act as a wake-up call for Mac users.
SecurityFocus

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With the move to Intel processors and a larger share of the market, Apple’s Mac OS X could find itself a more popular target of attack, security professionals say.
SecurityFocus

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