Reading Time: 6 minutes Contributors: Ionel Pomana, Kevin Judge Video games have played an important role in the history of computers and are a significant reason for their popularity as a consumer product. Families had video game players in their homes long before they had personal computers. The ability to provide web sites that more closely replicate the experience…

Reading Time: 2 minutes There are two disturbing bits of news this week regarding the recently revealed cardholder data breach at PF Chang, the national chain of Chinese casual dining restaurants. The first is that more than a week after the breach, they are still using manual imprint machines to process credit card payments. Such imprint machines were once…

Reading Time: 1 minute According to Homeland Security’s Computer Emergency Response Team (US-CERT), the Symantec Web Gateway contains SQL injection and cross-site scripting vulnerabilities. Symantec Web Gateway 5.1.1.24, and possibly earlier versions, contains a cross-site scripting vulnerability in the filter_date_period, variable and operator parameters of the /spywall/entSummary.php, /spywall/custom_report.php, /spywall/host_spy_report.php and /spywall/repairedclients.php pages. This means that a remote unauthenticated attacker…

Reading Time: 2 minutes Update: check the latest version of Comodo’s free mobile security app The company whose logo used to be the cracked Liberty Bell has some crack’s in its own data security policies. AT&T sent out letters this week to its wireless customers this week informing them that an unspecified number of customers have had the personal…

Reading Time: 1 minute Microsoft revealed this week that a vulnerability in its Malware Protection Engine could allow an attacker to cause a denial of service. This software is an integral part of its security software for Windows and is integrated into a variety of other software products. According to Microsoft Security Advisory 2974294 , an update is available…

Reading Time: 3 minutes Update: check the latest version of Comodo’s free mobile security app We Bring Superior Mobile Device Management to Your Business Comodo Mobile Device Management (CMDM) provides IT administrators with a rich set of capabilities to secure and manage large-scale deployments of corporate and personal mobile devices – all from a single console. CMDM equips administrators…

Reading Time: 1 minute WordPress announced recently that they would join the club of web applications that use SSL by default for all of the web site’s they host, providing users with secured, encrypted communications. The WordpPress web application was originally designed for the creating blogging and news sites, but has evolved into a general purpose Content Management System…

Reading Time: 2 minutes The Mozilla Foundation announced this week the release of security updates that address critical a high impact vulnerabilities in Firefox, Firefox ESR, Thunderbird, and Netscape Portable Runtime. These vulnerabilities may allow attackers to execute arbitrary code, launch denial of service attacks and conduct clickjacking attacks. The following updates are available from Mozilla: Firefox 30 This…

Reading Time: 2 minutes Update: check the latest version of Comodo’s free mobile security app Many people believe that mobile phones are immune from the type of malware attacks that plague desktop systems. Two separate ransomware attacks in recent weeks demonstrate that such thinking is out of touch with today’s reality. Ransomware is an attack strategy where hackers are…

Reading Time: 1 minute Google has released significant security updates for the Google Chrome browser and Chrome Operating System. User’s are encouraged to apply these updates as soon as possible. Vulnerabilities addressed could potentially allow an attacker to take control of the affected system or cause a denial of service. Updates available include: Chrome 35.0.1916.153 for Windows, Mac and…