A signature update to Symantec Corp.'s antivirus software crippled thousands of Chinese PCs Friday when the security software mistook two critical Windows .dll files for malware.

Symantec Corp. is slipping on its target delivery time for the next major upgrade of its security product for enterprises, code-named Hamlet, while it irons out final code wrinkles during beta testing.

The Word 2007 bugs pegged as security vulnerabilities by an Israeli researcher are nothing of the sort, Microsoft Corp. said Thursday. Instead, the application crashes reported as flaws are actually by design.

Israel unfortunately is home to the most malicious Internet activity per Internet user, said Symantec's twice-yearly Internet Security Threat Report issued on Monday. The report covered the second half of 2006.

Mozilla Corp.'s Firefox suffered from 26 percent fewer vulnerabilities in the second half of 2006 than Microsoft Corp.'s Internet Explorer, a security company's research said Monday.

Microsoft Corp. is not planning to release any security updates on Tuesday, one of only a handful of times the company won't have security patches available since its monthly security updates began in 2003, Microsoft said Thursday.

Microsoft Corp. has acknowledged that a bug in its Windows Live OneCare security suite has been causing users' e-mail to vanish from Outlook and Outlook Express.

A SecurityFocus beszámolója szerint egy hacker közzé tette, hogyan lehet a Microsoft konzolján alternatív operációs rendszereket futtatni.

A new version of the Storm e-mail virus is populating blogs and online bulletin boards with links directing people to a Web site that is propagating the worm, representing a new mode of attack for hackers seeking financial gain, according to a security vendor that became aware of the virus Monday night.

The former legal counsel for McAfee Inc. is facing federal charges of improperly backdating stock options at the security software company.

Google's enterprise collaboration suite unveiled last week includes security options that let companies tie it into their existing corporate directories and extend single sign-on to the online provider's hosted applications.

EEye Digital Security said Friday that it's found the first Office 2007 remote code vulnerability and has alerted Microsoft's bug team.

Mozilla Corp. will delay the next security update for Firefox so it can test a fix for a flaw that could be used by attackers by skirt security restrictions.

With its February security patches now two weeks away, Microsoft Corp. is warning of another critical flaw in its Office software.

Mozilla Corp. has released the first update for the Firefox 2.0 browser to fix eight security vulnerabilities.

Fortify Software Inc. and the FindBugs project have launched a free service that will scan open-source Java software for bugs in the code.

Users are being advised to disable a certain type of file in Microsoft Corp.'s Windows Media Player software following the discovery of a new security hole in the software.

Microsoft Corp. is investigating reports of a vulnerability in a Windows ActiveX control that could allow an attacker to remotely take control of a computer, according to an advisory issued Friday. One security company rated the vulnerability critical, while Microsoft said it allowed only limited attacks.

A Sun Microsystems és a BalaBit IT Security bejelentették új közös terméküket, amelyet elsőként a héten zajló „Systems 2006” informatikai és telekommunikációs szakvásáron Münchenben tekinthet meg és próbálhat ki a szakmai közönség.

A Novell csatlakozott az SAP Global Security Alliance programjához, amelynek keretében komplex megoldást nyújt az ügyfelek fő kockázatkezelési és IT-biztonsági problémáira.