The PHP Group has released PHP 5.4.3 and PHP 5.3.13 on Tuesday in order to address two remote code execution vulnerabilities, one of which is being actively exploited by hackers.

"The releases complete a fix for a vulnerability in CGI-based setups (CVE-2012-2311)," the PHP developers said in the release notes. Additionally, PHP 5.4.3 fixes a buffer overflow vulnerability, identified as CVE-2012-2329, in the apache_request_headers() function. 

Security expert Daniel James Clayton should go to prison for five to six years for accessing, possessing and distributing child pornography on his laptop computer, Crown prosecutor Jenny Rees argued Wednesday. 

“The aggravating factors are that the quantity of material was extremely large, the nature of the material was extremely graphic with young children and babies, and it was over a long period of time,” said Rees.

Hackers shut down a United States online video company on Wednesday that was being used by Russian activists to stream live video of protests in Moscow, prompting the company’s leaders to launch a Russian-language version of the site.

In the online struggle for network security, Kansas State University cybersecurity experts are adding an ally to the security force: the computer network itself.

Scott DeLoach, professor of computing and information sciences, and Xinming "Simon" Ou, associate professor of computing and information sciences, are researching the feasibility of building a computer network that could protect itself against online attackers by automatically changing its setup and configuration.

The FBI sees the anonymous Bitcoin payment network as an alarming haven for money laundering and other criminal activity — including as a tool for hackers to rip off fellow Bitcoin users.

A critical security flaw that has been affecting Adobe's Flash Player application now has an update from the software company towards remedying the problem. Actually the flaw had been enabling hackers to exploit it so users could be deceived into taking down malware while browsing in IE (Internet Explorer) that too was getting impacted. Redorbit.com published this on May 6, 2012.

Microsoft is changing the look and feel of the Bing interface, turning it into a three-column design with new “Snapshot” and “Sidebar” panes added.

Microsoft officials are calling it the biggest update of Bing since the search engine was launched three years ago. The core of the new design is the new more Metro-ish search results page that Microsoft showed off last week. In addition to delivering less cluttered look-and-feel, Microsoft made changes under the covers, resulting in search results calculating faster and more accurately, officials said last week.

Nokia has lost an appeal against Ipcom with the patent holder pushing for an injunction.

Nokia had lost a case brought by Ipcom over the infringement of 3G patents in the UK High Court last year. Nokia went to the London Court of Appeal, which also sided with Ipcom, which said it will ask for damages and a sales injunction against Nokia.

CRIMINALS are mass producing their attack techniques and targeting smaller businesses, telecom Verizon has warned. 

Talking at Verizon's Security Operations Centre in Dortmund, Germany today, security research director Wade Baker told The INQUIRER that small to medium businesses are "easy targets" for organised cyber crime compared to larger enterprises. Baker explained that this is because hackers are commoditising their attacks and using the same techniques and constructs again and again due to their ease of use and lower levels of risk.

The FBI today warned travelers there has been an uptick in malicious software infecting laptops and other devices linked to hotel Internet connections.

The FBI wasn't specific about any particular hotel chain, nor the software involved but stated: "Recent analysis from the FBI and other government agencies demonstrates that malicious actors are targeting travelers abroad through pop-up windows while they are establishing an Internet connection in their hotel rooms.