help net security

Help Net Security: "Researchers have found a weakness in the AES algorithm. They managed to come up with a clever new attack that can recover the secret key four times easier than anticipated by experts."

Help Net Security: "Openwall released an updated version of John the Ripper, a password security auditing tool and open source project, providing the community with improvements in the performance of cracking password hashes based on the DES algorithm on CPUs."

Help Net Security: "Many people think that Linux is immune to the type of Autorun attacks that have plagued Windows systems with malware over the years.

However, there have been many advances in the usability of Linux as a desktop OS - including the addition of features that can allow Autorun attacks."

Help Net Security: "The results of a Cyber-Ark global survey show that 35 percent of respondents believe their company's highly-sensitive information has been handed over to competitors."

Help Net Security: "Following Sun Microsystems' decision to release a raft of open source applications to support its secure cloud computing strategy, companies may be wondering if they should conduct security tests of their customized open source software before deployment."

Help Net Security: "Cyber war is a reality that, according to cyber experts, the US will have to be prepared for - and soon."

Help Net Security: "While spam levels globally remain at a two-year high of approximately 90 percent, some European countries are seeing levels of over 95%."

Help Net Security: "Today the McAfee first quarter threat report revealed that cybercriminals have taken control of almost 12 million new IP addresses since January, a 50 percent increase since 2008."
Again, no mention of vulnerable platforms, even though only Windows vulnerabilities are named-- ed.