As of 2:15 p.m. Tuesday e-mail delivery had started to return to normal for some Postini customers, although problems remained.

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Some customers of Google’s Postini e-mail security product experienced significant problems Tuesday, with reports of hours-long delays in e-mail delivery that …

Originally posted at Relevant Results

Adobe on Tuesday released a security bulletin that includes fixes for 28 vulnerabilities in Adobe Reader and Acrobat, including a critical hole that has reportedly been exploited in the wild in limited attacks.

Affected software includes version 9.1.3 of Reader and Acrobat; Acrobat 8.1.6 for Windows, …

Originally posted at InSecurity Complex

URL shorteners may be handy for your tweets on Twitter. But they’re also known security holes since they don’t display the actual address of your destination. A free tool from security vendor AVG may provide a solution.

AVG has updated its free LinkScanner tool to detect malicious pages …

Microsoft released a record number of 13 bulletins for 34 vulnerabilities on Patch Tuesday–and the first critical update for Windows 7–as well as fixes for zero-day flaws involving Server Message Block (SMB) and Internet Information Services (IIS).

The most severe of the three SMB flaws, which were first reported last month, …

Originally posted at InSecurity Complex

Microsoft released a record number of 13 bulletins for 34 vulnerabilities on Patch Tuesday and the first critical update for Windows 7, as well as fixes for zero-day flaws involving Server Message Block (SMB) and Internet Information Services (IIS).

The most severe of the three SMB flaws, which were first …

Originally posted at InSecurity Complex

A problem during routine maintenance of Sweden’s top-level domain, .se, took down the Internet for the country for about an hour on Monday night.

Basically, the .SE registry used an incorrectly configured script to update the .se zone, Sweden-based Pingdom, which monitors Web site performance, wrote in a blog post …

Originally posted at InSecurity Complex

McAfee has released a new security suite designed to help businesses better handle security for their growing segment of Macintosh computers.

Targeting small to large companies, McAfee Endpoint Protection for Mac provides antivirus and antispyware features, and both an inbound and outbound firewall, McAfee said Tuesday.

The company is positioning …

Security appliance maker Barracuda Networks has acquired Purewire, a Web security-as-a-service provider, the companies were set to announce on Tuesday.

The acquisition gives Barracuda the SaaS offering, but also adds to its security researcher and threat detection capabilities, the company said.

The companies did not disclose terms of the deal. …

Originally posted at InSecurity Complex

Security appliance maker Barracuda Networks has acquired Purewire, a Web security-as-a-service provider, the companies were set to announce on Tuesday.

The acquisition gives Barracuda the SaaS offering, but also adds to its security researcher and threat detection capabilities, the company said.

The companies did not disclose terms of the deal. …

Originally posted at InSecurity Complex