A security weakness in a standard for handling special character sets in domain names could let an attacker spoof Web sites on non-Microsoft browsers, a researcher has warned.

The problem arises because certain browsers support a standa...

A source-code analysis of the MySQL database, a popular open-source program at the heart of many Web sites, revealed few bugs compared with the number found in commercial code, testing company Coverity said on Friday.

The analysis, done...

By Munir Kotadia, ZDNet Australia

03 February 2005

Trend Micro is warning of a new variant of the Bropia worm that uses MSN Messenger to spread. The worm is packaged with a second more damaging worm that tries to exploit p...

A Russian security company claims it found a way to beat a security measure in Microsoft's Windows XP Service Pack 2, a major update aimed at securing customers' PCs.

The SP2 measure, known as Data Execution Protection, is intended to p...

A worm exploiting weak database passwords on Windows computers had essentially stopped spreading on Friday, after the systems infected with the program were cut off from the control of several central computers.

More than 8,000 Windows ...

A federal judge on Friday sentenced a 19-year-old Minnesota man to 18 months in prison for unleashing a variant of the MSBlast worm.

Jeffrey Lee Parson, 19, of Minnesota was ordered to serve his time in a minimum security prison and par...

Popular database vulnerable to newly discovered attack.

Security experts have discovered a malicious automated bot designed to attack and take over vulnerable installations of the popular MySQL database running on Windows.

A...

Open source OS 'not ready for mission-critical computing'

A senior Microsoft executive, speaking exclusively to vnunet.com, has dismissed Linux's reputation as a secure platform as a "myth", claiming that the open source development proc...

Thousands of MySQL servers around the world are being infected with a worm which could facilitate a massive denial-of-service attack.

Security experts have warned that thousands of MySQL servers around the world could be press-ganged in...

MyDoom is arguably the most successful mass mailing worm in history. One year after it was discovered, MyDoom has spawned more than 30 variants and is still evolving.

MyDoom first appeared on January 26 and according to antivirus firm F...