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A bug in Shockwave Player can lead to the bad guys taking complete control of your PC. Happily, Adobe has issued a fix. Read more »

Symantec has announced endpoint protection management and monitoring services. Read more »

Mozilla has patched 11 flaws for its Firefox browser, six of them rated critical and offering attackers a way to access system files. Read more »

BlackBerry Attachment Service has a flaw that uses malicious PDF files to access to system files. A fix has landed. Read more »

McAfee is bulking up its ability to protect automatic teller machines and embedded systems. Read more »

Trend Micro will scoop up Third Brigade to improve its datacenter security strategy. Read more »

The remote network software contains flaws that could be exploited to gain access to critical files. Read more »

Vulnerabilities causing browser instability and memory corruption errors could be exploited by attackers to access sensitive information. Read more »

Flaws in Adobe Flash Player could be used by an attacker to gain access to system files and take control of a computer. Adobe recommends updating to the latest version. Read more »

The Kaspersky website was accessed by a number of unknown parties after details of its vulnerabilities were posted to hackersblog.org. Read more »

Antivirus vendor Kaspersky Lab's website has been compromised and hackers seem to have had access to 2,500 email addresses for several days. Read more »

Cisco has warned about, and repaired, sever security problems in some of its Wireless LAN equipment. Read more »

Spam levels have been climbing slowly since the shutdown of McColo, and will continue to do so in 2009. Read more »

Budgets are being slashed company wide, but with careful management you can minimise how this affects your security operations. Read more »

AVG Technologies will incorporate Sana Security's behavioural software into its existing products. Read more »

RIM's latest update fixes a vulnerability that allows malicious PDFs attachments corrupt system memory and compromise data. Read more »

Microsoft's latest update addresses two critical remote code execution vulnerabilities and a denial-of-service flaw in the Server Message Block. Read more »

Oracle's latest mega-patch tackles vulnerabilities in Oracle Secure Backup, Database and Application Server. Read more »

A worm exploiting the Microsoft RPC vulnerability is causing trouble for those companies slow to deploy a patch. Read more »

The first of Microsoft's patches for the year fixes a remote code execution bug in Windows 2000, Windows XP and Windows Server 2003. Read more »