Round Rock (ip-192.com): Dell says that users should buy more computers running Ubuntu Linux. The Round Rock, Texas based information technology company says on Dell’s Ubuntu website that the Debian based Linux distribution is safer than Microsoft Windows. "The vast majority of viruses and spyware written by hackers are not designed to target and attack [...]
Dallas (ip-192.com): Emails from up to 114,000 users of Apple's iPad have been disclosed. A security flaw in one of AT&T’s websites allowed a group that calls itself Goatse Security to penetrate the website and uncover the emails. AT&T blocked access to the site after it discovered the breach that was revealed by Gawker Media [...]
Mountain View (ip-192.com): Adobe has warned about new zero-day vulnerabilities in its Acrobat, Flash Player, and Reader products. The unpatched exploits are critical and platform independent. They can affect users running Windows, Linux, Solaris, and Macintosh operating systems. "A critical vulnerability exists in Adobe Flash Player 10.0.45.2 and earlier versions for Windows, Macintosh, Linux and [...]
Sunnyvale (ip-192.com): Symantec has updated its Protection Suite aimed at Small and Medium Businesses (SMB). The new Advanced Business Edition bridges the gap between endpoint security and backup- and recovery and hooks into Symantec's cloud-based Global Intelligence Network to provide early threat warnings and automatic backups. It will provide SMBs with endpoint and messaging security [...]
Santa Clara (ip-192.com): McAfee says that it will reimburse users affected by the faulty update to its security software. The "false positive" did wreck havoc on computers worldwide that updated their Antivirus signatures last week (ip-192.com reported here). "If you have already incurred costs to repair your PC as a result of this issue, we’re [...]
Bedford (ip-192.com): Computer networks in 441 Fortune 500 companies had systems accessed by infected machines, RSA reports. The security division of EMC says that advanced forms of malware such as the Zeus Trojan can silently capture a wide variety of data and credentials contained on enterprise computers and laptops, including proprietary information such as legal [...]
