Microsoft has delivered a significant update to its developer tools with the release of Visual Studio 2010, .Net Framework 4 and Silverlight 4.

Russia is not a safe haven for criminals or spammers, according to a Russian trade association campaigning to tighten up the admitted shortcomings of local cybercrime laws and build international cooperation.

Opera has announced Apple's approval of the company's Opera Mini browser in the iPhone App Store.

Since its launch, Internet Explorer 8 has blocked access to over 560 million sites that it determined were serving malware, or about 3 million blocks per day, said Brandon LeBlanc in a blog post on Friday. However, it is unclear how many of those sites were legitimate, duped into serving malware laced ads, sent to them from their ad network.

Michael Chertoff, former US secretary of Homeland Security; Richard Clarke, chairman of Good Harbor Consulting; and Marc Rotenberg, executive director of the Electronic Privacy Information Center, share their views on how to prevent future cyberthreats. They outline areas of focus and how to protect against cyberthreats without imposing on privacy rights.

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While many enterprises continue to build systems and strategies to protect their relational databases, many organizations haven't done enough to secure the information in the most common database format: the flat-file database, experts say.

Two researchers from Trustwave will demonstrate how a man-in-the-middle attack on Oracle databases can be leveraged to swipe user credentials and hijack sessions at the upcoming Black Hat Europe security conference.

Security experts are warning Windows Mobile phone users to beware of downloading games to their devices as it emerged that a Russian-speaking hacker has been uploading versions of a particular game with malicious Trojan programs hidden inside.

Researchers have discovered a flaw in the latest version of Oracle's Java runtime environment that attackers can exploit to remotely execute malicious code on end user machines.

For all the credit Facebook has received for its privacy controls and user safety, the site still falls prey to an unsettling number of security issues and potential data breaches. Last month a botched code push accidentally revealed private user email addresses, and before that Facebook accidentally sent private messages to the wrong recipients. Today, security engineer Joey Tyson, AKA theharmonyguy, has detailed a major security hole in Facebook Platform — one that would allow a malicious website to silently access a user’s profile information, photos, and in some cases, messages and wall posts, with no action required on the user’s part.