A little over a year after the implementation of a Flash Player sandbox into Google Chrome, Adobe has announced the release of a public beta of its new Flash Player sandbox for the Firefox browser.
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In the computing world, detecting problems is far easier than fixing them. Take antimalware software: It’s always been better at accurately finding viruses and the like than at cleaning up and repairing infected systems. That left security professionals with an ongoing conundrum for the past three decades: How can we be certain we’ve cleaned up a system once it’s been compromised? Just because it tells you it’s infection-free doesn’t mean it is. Malware can modify one bit, and because you don’t know which bit has changed, you have to do a complete recovery.
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Hacker group Anonymous claimed late Monday that the source code of Symantec’s pcAnywhere had been uploaded on The Pirate Bay site.
Symantec could not immediately comment on whether the hackers had indeed released the source code of its product. “It happened so recently that we’re still in the process of analyzing and won’t be able to confirm until the morning,” a spokesman said via email.
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An in-depth study of data-breach problems last year where hackers infiltrated 312 businesses to grab gobs of mainly customer payment-card information found the primary way they got in was through third-party vendor remote-access applications or VPN for systems maintenance.
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To build a sure defense, you need to know what makes you a juicy target. Here are some tips
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