Criminals sabotaging Cyber Monday, security experts warn
Security experts today warned consumers of a rapidly mutating spam campaign using bogus messages from United Parcel Service (UPS) claiming that a package could not be delivered.
Security experts today warned consumers of a rapidly mutating spam campaign using bogus messages from United Parcel Service (UPS) claiming that a package could not be delivered.
The <a href="http://www.networkworld.com/topics/security.html">security</a> company Qualys this week demonstrated how to reverse-engineer a <a href="http://www.networkworld.com/subnets/microsoft/">Microsoft</a> patch in order to launch a denial-of-service attack on <a href="http://www.networkworld.com/topics/windows.html">Windows</a> DNS <a href="http://www.networkworld.com/topics/server.html">Server</a>.
Today's web application firewalls are not up to the challenge of securing cloud systems according to security company Qualys, which has set out its alternative vision based on building a new generation using open source development.
Although the media blitz about the Conficker worm prompted a significant number of enterprise users to finally fix a six-month-old Windows bug, about one in five business computers still lack the patch, a security company says.