Activision Blizzard has apparently filed an application to trademark Sing Hero with the US Patent and Trademark Office. IGN speculates that this could be the company's foray into the karaoke market, in an attempt to take on the lord high diva: Sony's SingStar . Considering how much practice Actilizz...

After weeks of swinging and missing on proper response to a gaping security hole in its ever-present PDF Reader software, Adobe has finally shipped a patch but only for some affected users. On the same day Microsoft issued its scheduled batch of patches, Adobe dropped a security bulletin warning of ...

Microsoft today shipped three security bulletins with fixes for at least 8 documented vulnerabilities affecting millions of Windows OS users. The most serious of this month’s patch batch is rated “critical” and could allow full remote execution attacks if a Windows user is simply l...

The Azerbaijan section at the United States Agency for International Development (azerbaijan.usaid.gov) has been compromised and is embedded with malware and exploits serving scripts approximately around the 1st of March. The malicious script is taking advantage of a series of redirects which are dy...

Dan J. Bernstein has acknowledged an exploitable security flaw in his djbdns software and has made good on a public security guarantee — to pay $1000 to the first person to publicly report a verifiable security hole in the latest version of the popular DNS name server. Bernstein (left), descri...

Apple has released a firmware update with fixes for three documented security vulnerabilities affecting its Time Capsule and AirPort Base Station products. The vulnerabilities could lead to denial-of-service or information disclosure attacks via specially crafted packets. Details on the vulnerabilit...

Microsoft today outlined plans to ship three security bulletins for software vulnerabilities in the Windows operating system. One of the three bulletins will carry a “critical” rating, meaning that it will cover flaws that could be exploited to launch remote code execution attacks. Accor...

A new report from Secunia is pouring more gas on the Internet Explorer vs. Mozilla Firefox security debate. The security alerts aggregator collected and crunched the numbers on security flaws publicly reported — and fixed — by the two vendors and found that Mozilla easily won the time-to...

Guest editorial by Andrew Storms Transparency is a common theme in politics and Wall Street these days. The 2008 elections, dealings of TARP, financial institutions run a-muck are all places where we hear the word transparency bandied about on a daily basis. While many security professionals speak a...

Salty D. is wearing this respirator mask thingy at night to help him sleep without dying or something.  I'm all for that.  When it's on he talks like Darth Vader, so at sleep time, we go into dorky Star Wars geek mode.  "Stay on target, Red 9,"  "...