Security

What’s up with the ‘mystery missile’ off California?

Updated: Your guess would seem to be as good as any

Microsoft patches Office, but IE Zero-day still in the wild

Patch Tuesday is light, but Internet Explorer still at risk

More federal health database details coming following privacy alarm

Office of Personnel Management may delay launch of its controversial Health Claims Data Warehouse

Antitrust case against Microsoft over AV would be ‘longshot,’ says expert

Another rival punches Microsoft for distributing free antivirus software through Windows' update service

iPhone’s Safari dials calls without warning, says researcher

A security researcher says the way the iPhone handles certain URL schemes could pose a security risk

2010 Women of Influence award winners named

Global infrastructure adds complexity to identity services

* Delivering services worldwide over the Internet means dealing with different regulatory requirements for customer privacy in different countries.

When sites share data about zero-day attacks, false positives plummet

When anomalies from multiple sites are shared, network security staffers have fewer possible attacks to investigate

Search engine optimization ‘poisoning’ way up this year: report

Websense says 22.4% of Google searches lead to bad URLs vs. 13.7% at end of 2009

Researchers sound alarm over critical Mac OS X bug

Core Security issues warning after Apple missed two patch deadlines