Reading Time: 1 minute This week’s July security fixes by Microsoft address critical security flaws that users are urged to update as soon as possible. Two of the six security alerts bugs that Microsoft rate as “Critical,” its highest security rating. Patches for three of the alerts are rated “important,” and the sixth is rated “moderate.” The most serious…

Reading Time: 1 minute Adobe has released security updates to address multiple critical vulnerabilities in Flash Player and Air that could allow an attacker to steal user credentials and take control of their computer. Users of Windows, Mac and Linux systems should update their Flash Player as soon as possible. Users of Windows, Mac, Android and iOS should update…

Reading Time: 1 minute The following is the schedule of this week’s security webinars. You can sign up for these and webinars in the future at: http://www.comodo.com/resources/webinars/business-security/register.php Antispam Gateway Remove malware & spam from your email traffic before it gets to your network Establishes an effective pre-perimeter defense and regain lost bandwidth. Tuesday, 8 July 2014; 10:30 to 11:00…

Reading Time: 1 minute According to a report from Homeland Security, the AVG Secure Search toolbar includes an ActiveX control that provides several unsafe methods that could allow a remote, unauthenticated attacker to execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the user. That means they can download whatever they want onto your computer and take control of it. Ironically,…

Reading Time: 1 minute As scheduled, Apple has released security updates this week for Mac OS X, Safari, iOS devices, and Apple TV to address numerous vulnerabilities. The Safari updates are particularly important because they include fixes for 10 browser bugs that could be exploited by hackers to inflict “drive by downloads. This is where a user can be…

Reading Time: 1 minute Norse, an internet security firm, monitors internet traffic to identify cyber-attacks in progress. They have created have a very cool animated display that appears to be based on the War Room in the 1983 movie War Games, and has made it available to the public. If you do not think the “cyber war” is real,…

Reading Time: 2 minutes It’s been a rough few years for the Houston Astros baseball team on the field, in last place half way through this season and losing an astounding 111 games last year. It seems they are having some off the field issues too, at least as far as data protection is concerned. The team revealed this…

Reading Time: 2 minutes The Internet of Things (IoT) is a loose term for the concept that today’s computing and Internet technologies can be applied to almost any tool known to mankind, with results that were only the stuff of science fiction in the recent past. Science fiction frequently focuses on nightmare scenarios as cautionary tales and because they…

Reading Time: 2 minutes Update: check the latest version of Comodo’s free mobile security app Google has signaled a shift in focus for its Android operating system toward’s the enterprise market with its new Android Work component, a feature of its upcoming mobile OS that provides mobile device management (MDM) features and IT controls to Android. This is in…

Reading Time: 1 minute According to Homeland Securities Computer Emergency Response Team (US-CERT) SpamTitan contains a reflected cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability. SpamTitan is a server system for monitoring email and reducing spam email and other threats. The vulnerability was found in the auth-settings-x.php page of the management interface. It will enable an attacker to load a malicious script in…