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Black Hat: Who patches security holes faster, Microsoft or Apple?

Apple's teasing commercials that imply its software is safer than Microsoft's may not quite match the facts, according to new research revealed at the Black Hat conference on Thursday. Researchers from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology looked Read More...
Posted Saturday, March 29, 2008 12:21 PM by chsecblo | 1 Comments

Linux Web servers broken into most often

Security portal Zone-H , which documents attacks on and defacements of Web pages, has compiled statistics about the attacks within the last year. Apparently, Linux servers were successfully defaced twice as often as Windows servers. Apache servers were Read More...
Posted Wednesday, March 26, 2008 9:19 AM by chsecblo | 1 Comments

Study: Consumers Don't Use Anti-Phishing Defenses

"Across the globe, Windows Internet Explorer 7 has more than 100 million users seeing green," VeriSign said in a press release about Extended Validation SSL technology earlier this month. About 5,000 sites are using the new technology, which gives users Read More...
Posted Friday, March 07, 2008 10:11 AM by chsecblo | 0 Comments

Microsoft Forefront Client Security benchmark test (West Coast Lab)

Microsoft Corporation commissioned West Coast Labs (WCL) to carry out a series of performance benchmarking tests and metric-based process evaluations of the following products: Microsoft Forefront Client Security McAfee Active VirusScan with McAfee ePO Read More...
Posted Thursday, February 14, 2008 7:53 PM by chsecblo | 12 Comments

One-fifth of Windows apps go unpatched

Updates are available, but users haven't installed them, says Secunia. One in five applications installed on Windows PCs are missing security patches, a Copenhagen-based vulnerability tracker has reported. http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&articleId=9054502&source=NLT_PM&nlid=8 Read More...
Posted Saturday, December 29, 2007 7:15 PM by chsecblo | 2 Comments
 
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