U.S. Backs Research Into What Makes Cyber Criminals Tick

The following is an exclusive Threatpost interview with Samuel Weber, Program Director for the National Science Foundation’s Trustworthy Computing Program. The interview took place on Monday, June 27, 2011 at the RFIDSec 11 Conference on the campus of the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. The...

Adobe quarterly patch release should serve as an example

Adobe has become the third major software vendor to begin shipping its security updates on a regular schedule. Following the lead of Microsoft and Oracle, who have been releasing patches on a set schedule for many years, Adobe now will ship its patches once per quarter. It’s a move that’s overdue...