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Microsoft today said it will issue an emergency patch for the critical Windows shortcut bug on Monday, August 2.

The company said it is satisfied with the quality of the "out-of-band" update -- Microsoft's term for a patch that falls outside the usual monthly delivery schedule -- but also acknowledged that it has tracked an upswing in attacks.

LAS VEGAS -- The U.S. needs to consider working with other leading nations to develop rules of engagement in cyberspace, retired general and former director of the CIA Michael Hayden said during a keynote address at the Black Hat conference here on Thursday.

As the country with the largest stakes on the Internet, the U.S. has been somewhat reluctant to engage in such discourse because of concerns that any international negotiations will force it to reveal or limit its cyber capabilities, Hayden said.

A Defcon contest that invites contestants to trick employees at U.S. corporations into revealing not-so-sensitive data has rattled some nerves.

Contest organizers have been called by the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation and seen warnings issued by security groups and the Financial Services Information Sharing and Analysis Center, (FS-ISAC) an industry group that provides information on security threats affecting the banking industry.

Once thought to be unhackable, the Android phone is anything but, according to researchers presenting at Black Hat 2010.

Stealthy, targeted attacks aren't just for defense agencies and high-tech giants like Google, according to researchers from managed security services firm TrustWave's Spider Labs research grou

Hackers appear to be increasingly counting on configuration problems and programming errors rather than software vulnerabilities in order to steal information from computer systems, according to a new study from Verizon.

China's rapid emergence as a hotspot for criminal hacking activities is enabled by the open and unfettered availability of sophisticated hacking tools, according to security researchers attending the Black Hat conference here this week.

Many of the hacking tools are inexpensive, highly customizable, and easy to use.

Even Microsoft can't move software makers to patch their products.

According to data released Wednesday by the company, third-party developers patched just 45 percent of the vulnerabilities that Microsoft's security team reported to them during the 12 months from July 2009 to June 2010.

As if IT admins weren't busy enough securing end-users' computers, servers, and the network, they now need to come up with ways to protect end-users' phones.