News
24 July 2008
Security update for Thunderbird email client
The Mozilla Foundation has plugged six moderate and two noncritical holes with the release Thunderbird 2.0.0.16. more…
24 July 2008
Speculation over back door in Skype
Claims by Austrian police at a meeting with ISPs, that listening in on Skype conversations is no problem, have set the rumour mill grinding. Speculation is centring on a back door which can be accessed using a special monitoring device. more…
24 July 2008
Alert! DNS vulnerability exploits released
Now it's really high time to patch. The exploits have been tested successfully against BIND. One of the exploits uses a previously unknown trick. more…
24 July 2008
Academics call on government to save Bletchley Park
The wartime home of Britain's codebreakers is in a dire state of disrepair, and needs public funding to preserve it for the nation, says a group of scientists. more…
23 July 2008
Solaris gets another Common Criteria certification
Sun has obtained Common Criteria EAL4+ certification for its Solaris 10 operating system. more…
23 July 2008
Alert! Exploit published for buffer overflow in BEA WebLogic
Security firms rate the exploit as critical. more…
Features
20 May 2008
Another blow to web anonymity?
A federal grand jury in Los Angeles has indicted a woman who created a fictitious MySpace account for "unauthorised access to a computer" under the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act. more…
18 February 2008
Enclosed, but not encrypted
An AES label alone does not ensure that your data are protected. We look at one hard drive enclosure with an RFID key -- not because it's a particularly bad example, but rather because it's probably quite typical of lots of similar products. more…
Comment
The five-minute rumour
There is a myth that an unpatched Windows system only survives on the Internet for an average of five minutes. Jürgen Schmidt, Editor-in-Chief of heise Security Germany, explains why this is nonsense. more…
