Security

Some experts question efforts to identify cyberattackers

Internet ID efforts would lead to privacy concerns and may not work, some critics say

Researchers: Password crack could affect millions

Cloud computing environments make 'timing attacks' more viable, researchers say

DARPA issues call for computer science devotees

DARPA wants university-based researchers to come up with the next big computer science idea – for the military

Microsoft fixes buggy patch for Windows Server 2008

Windows Server 2000 users also reported that the buggy patch breaks SMTP, but the new patch is only for WS2008

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Oracle releases 59 patches for security flaws, three critical

Critical flaws fixed in virtually every supported Oracle database products, others also cross product lines

With fix now out, Microsoft sees jump in XP attacks

Microsoft as now tracked 25,000 attempts to exploit a flaw in XP's Help and Support Center

R.I.P. Windows XP SP2

'End of an era,' says one researcher; security pros mark retirement of Microsoft's most significant service pack

why executives are the easiest social engineering targets

Mozilla yanks password-stealing Firefox add-on

Pulls Mozilla Sniffer for being bad, and CoolPreviews for being buggy