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(News) Does Google Have Wi-Fi Data from Your Company?
(News) Microsoft Continues "Feast or Famine" Patch Tuesday Cycle
(News) Symantec Study Mischaracterizes Linux Spam
(News) Symantec Embraces Encryption with New Acquisitions
(News) McAfee Debacle Shows Why Malware Defense Must Evolve
(News) Social Networking Exposes Business Networks to Risk
(News) Guard Against Threats with Panda Cloud Internet Protection
(News) Batten Down the Hatches for Microsoft and Adobe Patches
(News) Adobe Could Be Your Security Weakest Link
(News) Managing iPad Security Weaknesses
(News) Protect Your Data from the Next 'Card Hacker'
(News) Protecting Sensitive Business Data on the iPad
(News) Security Lessons Learned from Pwn2Own Contest
(News) Doing Business in America's Riskiest Cities for Cybercrime
(News) DHS Crowdsources Ideas for Cybersecurity Campaign
(News) The webcam spying incident in the Lower Merion School District holds some important lessons for businesses looking to conduct effective monitoring of computer activity without crossing the line.
(News) Security experts weigh in on the 13 new security bulletins unleashed by Microsoft for the February Patch Tuesday.
(News) Microsoft published its advance notice for next week's Patch Tuesday, containing a total of 13 new security bulletins for February.
(News) Google and the NSA: Necessary Allies
(News) Connecting Your iPhone or iPad with Your Business
(News) U.S. lawmakers have asked for an investigation into the hacking of lawmaker Web sites that took place on Wednesday.
(News) A report from McAfee illustrates a rise in cyber attacks against critical infrastructure targets like utilities and communications providers.
(News) People around the world continue to be duped by advance free frauds, with one Dutch company estimating the highest ever annual losses in 2009.
(News) More than two dozen Web sites for U.S. lawmakers have been defaced by the Red Eye Crew, a group known for its sporadic attacks on Web sites.
(News) Apple hasn't even officially announced the existence of an Apple tablet PC or an iPhone 4G, but naive victims can find counterfeit versions "available" online.
(News) A widely deployed system intended to reduce online payment card fraud is fraught with security problems.
(News) Days after announcing he'd managed to hack Sony's PlayStation 3 console to run his own software George Hotz has released the exploit online.
(News) U.K. police are pushing a voluntary program designed to cut off criminals from the tools they need to make fraudulent passports and ID cards.
(News) What Google Attacks Can Teach the Enterprise
(News) Security firm Intego has added to the bevy of year-in-review pieces for 2009 with a comprehensive report on Mac and iPhone security of the past year. While this...
(News) Five Web sites run by Chinese rights activists were attacked by hackers over the weekend, including with a DDoS attack.
(News) China on Monday dismissed accusations of any government role in alleged cyberattacks on Google and other U.S. companies.
(News) CERT advises RealPlayer users to apply a new security patch to the media-playing software.
(News) A study of passwords hacked from RockYou.com illustrates just how insecure most passwords are, and why users need tips to create strong passwords they can remember.
(News) Chinese search engine Baidu.com alleges in a lawsuit against registrar Register.com that it was stranded without technical support after being hacked last week.
(News) Symantec warns that hackers are now using a newly patched IE bug in widespread attacks.
(News) An iPhone app from BeenVerified lets users conduct free background checks on individuals from their iPhone.
(News) Microsoft is releasing MS10-002 out-of-band, nearly three weeks prior to the next scheduled Patch Tuesday, to address a zero-day exploit in Internet Explorer.
(News) Responding to last year's data breach, transaction processing company Heartland installs end-to-end encryption.
(News) Network Solutions says that hackers managed to pull off a mass defacement on hundreds of Web sites the company hosts.
(News) Top Chinese search engine Baidu.com has sued its U.S. domain registrar, Register.com, over a hack that took down the Web site.
(News) Microsoft will issue an out-of-band patch to fix the Internet Explorer zero-day flaw at the heart of the attacks against Google in China.
(News) Google is set to suggest the creation of an EU panel on cybersecurity.
(News) China on Tuesday denied any role in alleged cyberattacks on Indian government offices, calling China itself the "biggest victim" of hacking attacks.
(News) Google is investigating employees in China for involvement in the recent cyber attacks, a source familiar with the investigation said.
(News) An Internet Explorer zero-day has been identified as the root of attacks against Google in China, but simply blaming the browser misses the point and leads to a false sense of security.
(News) Gmail of Foreign Journalists in China Hijacked
(News) China's Alibaba Group, owner of Yahoo China, rejected as 'reckless' a Yahoo statement supporting Google, after Google said it was hit by Chinese cyberattacks.
(News) Attack Code Used to Hack Google Now Public
(News) Lincoln National is notifying customers after shared passwords put data of 1.2 million customers at risk.
(News) The massive cyberattack first noted by Google and apparently carried out on more than 30 major companies' computer networks dominated tech news this week, while...
(News) D-Link admitted on Friday that some of its routers have a vulnerability that could allow hackers access to a device's administrative settings.
(News) A Romanian national pleaded guilty on Thursday to a charge related to a phishing operation that sought to defraud banking customers.
(News) Two U.K. men have pleaded guilty to charges related to an extensive payment card fraud ring called DarkMarket busted by authorities in October 2008.
(News) Conficker was active and spreading during the third quarter, accounting for much of attack traffic on the Internet, Akamai said.
(News) Microsoft has issued a security advisory warning that a zero-day vulnerability in Internet Explorer was used in the Chinese attacks against Google and other entities earlier this week.
(News) Microsoft Promises to Patch Bug Used in Google Hack
(News) The FBI is advising people to be careful when evaluating donation schemes related to the earthquake in Haiti as one security firm is seeing scam e-mail emerge.
(News) When you say "computer security," most people think "viruses," "worms," and other forms of malware. They also think, "Mac users don't have to worry about it."...
(News) For some, it's a little disorienting to make the switch to Mac from PCs. Chief among them, the fact that, yes, that screensaver isn't going to infect your Mac...
(News) Google and other enterprises still face a bleak computer security landscape that makes their companies vulnerable to hackers.
(News) Smart card vendor Gemalto said Wednesday it is distributing a software fix for a programming glitch that caused millions of German payment cards to not work.
(News) Analysts see Google's threat to leave China as a public admission that corporate espionage is troubling US businesses
(News) Today is Microsoft's first Patch Tuesday of 2010, and Adobe and Oracle joined the party with security updates of their own.
(News) Google said it may pull out of China after hacks targeting the Gmail accounts of human rights activists.
(News) Officials in Maryland want the state to lead the world in cybersecurity research and practice.
(News) The L.A. Times Blog reports about an ongoing series of thefts targeting more than 100 Los Angeles-area Apple Store customers.
(News) Heartland Payment Systems agrees to pay up to $60 million to Visa card issuers after a 2008 data breach.
(News) Portable technology--laptops and iPhones particularly--come with their own special security risks. They can be lost, for starters. And iPhones can be made...
(News) An end-of-the-decade programming glitch is causing problems for holders of millions of German credit and ATM cards.
(News) A New York school district has reverted to using paper checks after cybercriminals tried to steal $3.8 million from its online accounts just before Christmas.
(News) Some security problems are due to user error (or user laziness). It's not that hard to practice good system security on your Mac. But a surprising number of...
(News) Symantec is warning that its Endpoint Protection Manager server product is erroneously marking signature updates issued this year as out of date.
(News) In the endless debates about Mac security--is the Mac platform inherently safer than Windows? what security measures should Mac users take?--one point is often...
(News) Is Cyber Crime a Threat to Your Business?
(News) InfoWorld's IT experts have nine goals for you and the entire technology industry
(News) Adobe's Flash and Acrobat Reader products will become the preferred targets for criminal hackers in 2010, a security vendor predicted this week.
(News) A distributed denial-of-service attack affected Northern California Internet users Wednesday.
(News) A Twitter-style service offered by a government-linked news site in China was hacked and went offline.
(News) Hackers are targeting an flaw in the OpenX ad server to place malicious code on Web sites.
(News) A Massachusetts prison inmate has been sentenced to 18 months for hacking prison computers.
(News) Citigroup and federal law enforcement refuted Tuesday that the bank's customers lost millions of dollars in an advanced cyber heist.
(News) The FBI is probing the theft of an estimated tens of millions of dollars from Citibank by hackers linked to a Russian gang, The Wall Street Journal said.
(News) New security features being implemented into Dutch payment cards won't stop a kind of attack that fraudsters could use in the future.
(News) Microblogging site Twitter went offline Friday after hackers calling themselves the Iranian Cyber Army apparently managed to change the site's DNS records.
(News) A security researcher in Asia has cured BlackBerry devices infected by spyware with Kisses.
(News) Heartland will pay $3.6 million to American Express to resolve issues relating to its 2008 hack.
(News) EPIC and other privacy and consumer groups have filed an FTC complaint against Facebook for its privacy changes.
(News) The Cloud Security Alliance unveiled new guidelines for cloud computing security on Thursday.
(News) Shadowserver released data showing some Chinese ISPs have the biggest problem with Conficker worm.
(News) A Chinese court gave prison terms to 11 members of a crime ring that wrote and distributed Trojan horse viruses to steal online game account passwords
(News) Five Things You Need to Know About Social Engineering
(News) McAfee will form a new Chinese subsidiary and expand its staff in the country as it looks for new inroads to the local security market.
(News) Rogue Antivirus Lurks Behind Google Doodle Searches
(News) The Supreme Court has agreed to hear a case involving the expectation of privacy in the workplace. The decision could impact privacy and compliance efforts across the nation.
(News) 10 Predictions for 2010: Kaminsky and Weatherford
(News) A Chinese domain registrar long criticized for serving malicious domains promised stricter oversight after being censured in a government war on Internet porn.
(News) A new Apple Knowledge Base article confirms that iWork software (Pages, Keynote, and Numbers)--as well as iLife's iWeb '09--may crash when running under Mac OS X...
(News) HSBC confirmed Friday that a former employee stole client data but said the number of records taken was less than 10.
(News) HP has released patches for a vulnerability in an OpenView component.
(News) CA has found a variant of the Zeus botnet running a command and control server on Amazon's EC2 infrastructure.
(News) Privacy advocates are calling Facebook's latest privacy changes a mixed bag.
(News) A State Department employee is sentenced to probation and community service for passport snooping.
(News) Facebook is rolling out changes to its privacy settings intended to make them simpler to understand and manage.
(News) The man accused of hacking Sarah Palin's e-mail had malicious software on his computer, his lawyers say.
(News) If it's late in the day out here on the east coast, it can only mean one thing: time for Apple to drop some updates like they're hot--or at least room...
(News) SecureWorks has acquired DNS Limited, a U.K.-based managed security services company.
(Reviews) A firewall by its very definition is, "any barrier that is intended to thwart the spread of a destructive agent." When it comes to your Mac, that "destructive...
(News) Some HSBC customers may have had sensitive information exposed due to a glitch in the way the company redacted data.
(News) The Web site of webcam vendor Markvision was hacked over the past week, infecting some Office Depot customers.
(News) If you thought you just heard a disturbance in the Force--as if millions of voices cried out in terror and were suddenly silenced--then take a deep breath and...
(News) The Internet Security Alliance calls for a new focus on cybersecurity incentives and enterprise education.
(News) Adobe is investigating a critical zero-day flaw in Illustrator and is also readying a Flash Player security fix for next Tuesday.
(News) After being hacked, restaurants in Louisiana are suing point-of-sale computer maker Radiant.
(News) Northrop Grumman and three universities form a consortium to work on cybersecurity research.
(News) Microsoft's latest round of security patches appears to be causing some PCs to seize up and display a black screen, rending the computer useless.
(News) Hack In The Box will host its first hacker convention in Europe next year, in Amsterdam.
(News) Metasploit has released attack code for an unpatched bug in Internet Explorer, but it is not reliable.
(News) A California man has pleaded guilty to charges that he sold fake chips to the U.S. Navy.
(News) One of the most notorious U.S.-based spammers was sentenced to more than four years on Monday for a stock spam manipulation scheme.
(News) Facebook was hit with a worm that infected users' profiles and then redirected them to pornography sites.
(News) The Web site of China's Shaolin Temple, a famous kung fu training ground, has been hacked multiple times by attackers critical of its commercial activities.
(News) Third iPhone Worm Targets Jailbroken iPhones
(News) Most Americans expect that their laws are only passed after some period of public debate between Republicans and Democrats or their news-channel proxies...
(News) Problems related to loss of control, problems with compliance and changes in jurisdiction stand out in a report on cloud risk assessment.
(News) An apparent data breach in Spain has caused Visa and MasterCard to warn banks of possible fraudulent credit card transactions.
(News) Three men were indicted for their roles in redirecting the Comcast.net Web site last year.
(News) Congress is partly to blame for cybersecurity failures in the U.S. government, a former DHS official says.
(News) Current cybersecurity laws aren't adequate, a DOJ representative tells senators.
(News) An effort is underway to clean up tens of thousands of computers infected with malicious software known for churning out prolific spam.
(News) A researcher has shown how to hack Twitter using a previously disclosed bug in SSL.
(News) UK police are hailing the sentencing of four people who used a Trojan horse program to siphon money out of online bank accounts.
(News) ISPs are distributing consumer modems that could be used in DDoS attacks, researchers say.
(News) A new spam campaign is targeting companies using the ACH financial transfer system.
(News) It's 2 AM. Do you know where your iPhone is?
(News) A majority of Web sites have at least one major security issue that could be used by hackers for fraud-related purposes, according to a new study.
(News) Data-stealing Hack Targets Jailbroken iPhones
(News) Another piece of dangerous code that attacks iPhones has been found, although it puts at risk only a very small subset of the smartphone's users.
(News) A computer security company known for battling botnets moved last week to try to shut down one that has been a persistent spam player.
(News) Eight people are indicted for stealing $9 million from a U.S. bank.
(News) Browse the App Store for
 developer Storm8's many popular iPhone games, and you'll encounter the same message over and over again: "The item you've requested is...
(News) Microsoft will release on Tuesday guidelines for developers building online applications and for those using the Agile code-development process.
(News) The iPhone's first worm is spreading, but it only affects certain jailbroken iPhones.
(News) When it comes to security, using Windows can feel like living in the heart of a big city--the kind of place where you can install all the locks and alarms you...
(News) ScanSafe researchers are seeing renewed activity regarding Gumblar, a multifunctional piece of malware.
(News) If you want make a Mac user mad, just sidle up and whisper the words, "Mac security software." Then step back as the incensed sputtering ensues.
(News) Social networking sites MySpace and Facebook have apparently fixed coding errors that could have allowed an attacker access user data.
(News) Vasco Data Security has announced a version of its DIGIPASS product, which is used for two-factor authentication, for the iPhone and iPod Touch.
(News) A bug in the Web code used by the Gumblar botnet is crashing WordPress and other PHP-driven sites.
(News) Looking for an ideal holiday gift for that brooding philosophy student in your life? Check out Lose/Lose. It's reminiscent of classic arcade games like Space...
(News) A security company has developed a method for detecting bots that scrape data from Web sites such as job boards.
(News) The FBI warned Tuesday that small businesses and organizations are being targeted with ACH fraud.
(News) Prevx is giving security software to banks for free that it says can stop malicious software from interfering with transactions.
(News) M86 Security has acquired most of the assets of Finjan, a seller of Web gateway security software.
(News) The story headlined "Alleged cable modem hacker indicted in US" and posted Tuesday has been removed from the wire. It was a duplication of the story "Cable modem...
(News) Event management vendor ArcSight's Logger 4 will mine unstructured computer logfiles for signs of hacking or illegal activity.
(News) Three Minutes with Microsoft's Security Guru
(News) Ex- CEO Charged in Denial of Service Attack
(News) After One Year, Conficker Infects 7 Million Computers
(News) Microsoft Cleans up Bugs After Biggest Patch Release
(News) U.K. police have apologized over a recent public presentation that linked a nonprofit Internet registry with money laundering by Russian cybergangsters.
(News) Twittter warned Wednesdasy of a new round of phishing attacks on the social media site.
(News) The City of Los Angeles has voted to drop its Novell GroupWise e-mail system for Google Apps.
(News) Major security vendors who have long tried to crack China's market have met obstacles localizing their products and securing distribution channels.
(News) A major UK newspaper has notified 500,000 people that details they posted to the newspaper's jobs site may be in the hands of hackers.
(News) How Victims Encourage Cybercrime
(News) European financial institutions are seeing a sharp rise in card "trapping," where criminals use various tricks in order to capture a payment card.
(News) Law enforcement agencies can count a few recent victories against cybercriminals, but agents say the battle against them isn't getting any easier.
(News) It has become much easier for cybercriminals to recruit people to carry out crucial duties for their scams, people known as "mules."
(News) Security researchers are seeing a renewed push from Gumblar, the name for a piece of malicious code that is spread by compromising legitimate Web sites.
(News) President Obama asked individuals to protect against cyber threats.
(News) Microsoft reports 1.5 million downloads of its free software in the first week it was available.
(News) New applications are turning up on Facebook. Unfortunately, they're fake antivirus programs.
(News) Security researchers say the cost of DDoS attacks and other criminal services is dropping.
(News) McAfee has announced McAfee Endpoint Protection for Mac, a security product aimed specifically at businesses with Macs on their networks.
(News) Delta Air Lines is being sued for allegedly hacking the e-mail account of a passenger rights advocate supporting legislation.
(News) Microsoft has changed one of its Tuesday security bulletins, saying that a MS09-051 bug is being exploited in the wild.
(News) Google will send Webmasters snippets of malicious code its scanners find in the hopes the Web sites can be cleaned up faster.
(News) AVG has added a feature to its LinkScanner Web security product that scans shortened URLs, which can often blindly lead users into a malicious software attack.
(News) Security researchers say users need to do more to protect themselves on the Web as more services are offered.
(News) Researchers at the University of Washington say that common robot toys can be hacked and may pose a security risk.
(News) Online banking fraud in the U.K. has risen to the highest level in at least three years while card-related losses fell in most categories.
(News) A security researcher has analyzed 10,000 stolen hotmail passwords and found that many of them are easy to guess.
(News) With one week before Microsoft's security hackers are not taking advantage of a known Windows bug to attack.
(News) Adobe has worked to decrease the time it takes to rush out security patches, its CTO said Monday.
(News) The URLzone Trojan tries to trick investigators by sending them bad information about the money mules it uses.
(News) The Hack In The Box Malaysia 2009 security conference runs all week and will cover threats to the Cloud, smartphones and popular Web sites.
(News) After three months of inactivity the Asprox botnet has resurfaced and is infecting Web sites with SQL injection.
(News) Express Scripts has now notified 700,000 members after extortionists stole sensitive medical data.
(News) Facebook has noticed an increase in phising scams on its site that fraudsters use to later impersonate members and ask their friends for money.
(News) Finjan Softwrae has identified a new next-generation banking Trojan, called URLzone.
(News) The U.S. Department of Justice has extradited two Romanians to the U.S., where they face charges in connection with a massive phishing scam.
(News) The FTC has teamed up with Microsoft to place public service announcements in search results when consumers search for scam-related terms.
(News) Apple released an update to its iWork suite of personal productivity tools on Monday. The iWork '09 9.0.3 includes fixes for suite-wide issues as the individual...
(News) Metasploit has added attack code for a critical unpatched flaw in Vista and Windows Server 2008.
(News) Data on phishing attacks is often vastly different depending on the statistics collected by various vendors and other organizations.
(News) Adobe and McAfee will jointly develop a product that combines DRM with technology designed to prevent data from leaking outside corporate networks.
(News) Researchers say an IRS e-mail scam is becoming a major problem.
(News) Russian cyber gangs have established a robust system for promoting Web sites that sell fake antivirus software.
(News) Symantec's MessageLabs says that Idaho businesses get more spam per person than any other state in the U.S.
(News) Twitter users are being hit with fake direct messages that take them to phishing pages.
(News) Bank Sues Google for Gmail User's Identity
(News) Consumers face a greater risk of losing control of their payment data when doing business with smaller retailers, a survey said.
(News) Antivirus testing company NSS Labs says reputation-based systems can improve AV performance by as much as 23 percent.
(News) A California man was sentenced to 15 months in prison Thursday for skimming micro-payments from tens of thousands of brokerage accounts.
(News) Microsoft has filed lawsuits against five scareware makers.
(News) An Ohio children's hospital was infected with spyware after a man tried to spy on a former girlfriend.
(News) RSA says phishers are now using Jabber to set up fraudulent online chat sessions on their fake Web sites.
(News) Security company ArcSight has created a new product designed to detect fraudulent bank and brokerage transactions.
(News) For National Veterinary Associates, the decision to block the Web was sealed with a virus.
(News) The CEO of Heartland Payment Systems calls for new credit card encryption standards.
(News) Symantec has discovered a new Trojan program that uses Google Groups to hide its command and control instructions.
(News) Hacker Albert Gonzalez pleads guilty to 20 computer hacking and credit card fraud charges in Massachusetts and New York.
(News) On the same day that Apple released the first update to OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard, the company also issued a slew of security updates for Tiger and Leopard users.
(News) A Sacramento man has pleaded guilty to his role in a phishing scam that used Wal-Mart kiosks to set up fake instant credit accounts.
(News) Rumors that the FanCheck application for Facebook infects PCs with malware are false, the application's developer told IDG News Service.
(News) Malicious hackers are capitalizing on the interest in a Facebook application by setting up malware-infested sites that supposedly offer information about it.
(News) As Microsoft prepares to release patches, researchers have spotted a new zero-day flaw that puts organizations using Vista and other OSes at great risk.
(News) Banks are likely to see ATM-related fraud rise unless steps are take to improve their cash-machine infrastructure,
(News) A town in England with a population of 10,000 has chalked up the highest percentage of online transactions flagged as fraudulent by a U.K. security consultant
(News) Apple on Thursday released an update to Java for Mac OS X Leopard. The update, number five, supersedes all previous updates and brings with it improved...
(News) Researchers have developed new 'side-channel' attacks that can be used to steal data from cloud-computing programs.
(News) New York prosecutors indicted five Eastern European men on Monday in an extensive credit-card fraud operation that netted the defendants at least US$4 million.
(News) Microsoft Investigates IIS Web Server Bug
(News) One of the more sophisticated pieces of malware in circulation has been given an upgrade that lets cybercriminals act even faster after they've stolen data.
(News) San Francisco IT administrator Terry Childs remains in jail after a judge refused to lower his $5 million bail.
(News) Hackers have posted code that could be used to attack Microsoft's IIS 5 server.
(News) Court Says Even Digital Data Needs a Search Warrant
(News) An attack by a Chinese online game provider meant to cripple the servers of its rivals ballooned to cause an Internet outage in much of the country in May.
(News) Pen testers inadvertently prompted a federal agency to issue a fraud alert this week.
(News) Facebook will enhance its social-networking site's privacy features over the next 12 months as a result of a set of recommendations from the Canadian government...
(News) Facebook will tighten its privacy controls over the course of the next 12 months in response to recommendations from the Canadian government.
(News) Japanese researchers have developed a way to crack WPA encryption in about a minute.
(News) Symantec has pulled a buggy update to its Norton Antivirus and Norton 360 products.
(News) Hackers are most likely to strike during Christmas and New Year's, according to a survey of Defcon attendees.
(News) Cisco said the vulnerability in its lightweight wireless access points can be easily mitigated.
(News) Sony has unveiled a new range of high definition pan tilt zoom (PTZ) security cameras designed for surveillance and applications such as identification and...
(News) AirMagnet will report Tuesday that it has discovered a vulnerability in Cisco Systems wireless access points.
(News) Microsoft shared the stage with Chinese security researchers at a Beijing hacker conference, aiming to build ties in the country's security circles.
(News) A U.S. man is indicted for a massive attack targeting credit and debit cards.
(News) A reader who wishes to remain anonymous has acquired a Word cootie and is at a loss as how to deal with it. Anonymous Person writes:
(News) With the security content of all the updates Apple has been rolling out in the last few weeks, you might have thought the tides of darkness stemmed. But hackers...
(News) Smartphones will be increasingly targeted for malware, says an Android security expert at Google.
(News) EBay is requiring that all developers in its application platform program change their passwords to prevent fraudsters from accessing their accounts.
(News) The investigation into the attacks against high-profile Web sites in South Korea and the U.S. is a winding, twisty electronic goose chase.
(News) A reader who wishes to remain anonymous is concerned about a very scary looking website. I attempt to calm the waters.
(News) Twitter external developers are being seriously impacted by the downtime caused by the denial of service attack against the service.
(News) The last week of July and first week of August is always an interesting time in the security world. That's when the annual Black Hat and DefCon conferences take...
(News) Twitter is still struggling to contain a DOS attack that has seriously affected its service.
(News) Microsoft on Thursday posted Office 2008 for Mac 12.2.1 update, an update to their office productivity software suite for the Macintosh. The new update is...
(News) An EFF lawyer is urging people to develop technologies to help people protect their privacy online.
(News) Twitter has unveiled a feature to filter for malicious links, but it needs work.
(News) The U.S. Secret Service said on Monday it is investigating a group of ATM machines in Las Vegas that are debiting people's accounts but not dispensing cash.
(News) Defcon organizers say they kicked out for South Korean journalists this week after suspecting they worked for the government.
(News) Criminals planted a fake ATM machine at the Defcon hacker conference this week; it was quickly spotted.
(News) Web Surfers Forced to Choose Security or Anonymity
(News) British Court Allows Hacker to be Extradited to U.S.
(News) Adobe Patches 12 Flash Bugs, 3 Caused by Microsoft
(News) Researchers have found more flaws in programs that use the SSL protocol.
(News) At Black Hat a security researcher will show how a series of SMS messages could be used to take control of an iPhone.
(News) Researchers have found a way to send spoofed network-to-phones data via SMS.
(News) Scanning for Malware Should Be an Outside Job
(News) Researchers have found a way to bypass Microsoft's killbit protection.
(News) You've probably been in this situation before: A colleague strolls up behind your computer during work hours and your personal e-mail is in view.
(News) Network Solutions says hackers may have stolen more than a half a million credit card numbers from its Ecommerce Hosting customers.
(News) Adobe Flash Flaw Exploited in Web Sites, Researcher Warns
(News) This week, Apple released updates to its Final Cut and Logic products. (Macworld has extensive coverage of the new features in Logic as well as the Final Cut...
(News) The L0pht's Hacker News Network is online again.
(News) A couple is battling with Abbey National bank to refund nearly
£10,000 after they discovered a series of fraudulent transactions.
(News) U.S. lawmakers say electric utilities are not taking cybersecurity seriously enough.
(News) McAfee's latest version of its managed security service includes a new feature that lets companies scan their Web sites for vulnerabilities.
(News) CEOs Underestimate Security Risks, Survey Finds
(News) Younger Workforce Demands Innovative Tech Tools
(News) Three brothers were sentenced to prison on Tuesday in a London court for creating copies of credit and debit cards, defrauding victims of more than
£600,000.
(News) British authorities have launched an investigation into the recent cyberattacks that crippled Web sites in the U.S. and South Korea.
(News) About one in six consumers have at some time acted on a spam message, affirming the economic incentive for spammers.
(News) Trend Micro is Tuesday expected to announce antimalware software specifically designed for Windows-based protection in virtual-machine environments based on...
(News) An attacker who defaced the Web site of Turkey's embassy in China on Monday left behind a pro-China note as the two countries worked through a diplomatic spat.
(News) A vulnerability in some HTC phones running Windows Mobile leaves users vulnerable to attack over Bluetooth.
(News) The U.K. was the likely source of a series of attacks last week that took down popular Web sites in the U.S. and South Korea, a security company said Tuesday.
(News) Microsoft confirmed another zero-day vulnerability on Monday in a set of software components that ship in a wide variety of the company's products.
(News) Most Users Clueless about Cybersecurity, FBI Says
(News) Was North Korea Behind the DDOS Attack?
(News) The state of New York plans to sue the social-networking site Tagged.com for allegedly using deceptive means by e-mail in order to gain new users.
(News) Twitter is suspending the accounts of some users whose computers are apparently infected with Koobface, a piece of malicious software.
(News) The number of botnets and bot-controlled computers in China has fallen in recent years, but the country remains a top host for the networks of compromised PCs.
(News) Cisco says that scammers have been increasingly targeting small regional banks with text message phishing scams.
(News) A claim of a software vulnerability in a program used to connect securely to servers across the Internet is likely a hoax, according to SANS.
(News) In a purported second major security change in recent weeks, MasterCard has decided to disallow merchants' use of remote key injection (RKI) services to install...
(News) Updated MyDoom Responsible for DDOS Attacks, Says AhnLab
(News) An Indian man charged with hacking U.S. brokerage accounts for a pump-and-dump scheme has pleaded not guilty in federal court.
(News) A Virginia software developer faces up to six years in prison on spam-related charges.
(News) Internet safety experts urge parents to talk to their kids about online safety during summer vacation.
(News) If you get frustrated every time your Mac asks you to create or enter a password, welcome to the club. The concept of using a secret string of characters to...
(News) Social Security numbers may not be as random as believed and can in some cases be predicted, according to a new study.
(News) An attacker who wants to break into one of your accounts manually might first try likely passwords such as your pet's name, your anniversary, or other terms that...
(News) Cloud-based services are being rolled out without enough attention being paid to security, according to a RSA Security study.
(News) In the past week, Microsoft has launched five service packs for its enterprise security wares including Geneva, Forefront, Antigen.
(News) Federal authorities have arrested a Texas man on charges of felony computer intrusion after he allegedly posted videos of the activities to YouTube.
(News) Spammers are pumping out an increasing number of garbage messages, according to the latest statistics released by Google on Wednesday.
(News) A new piece of malicious software has been discovered that cheats Google and potentially other search engines out of money.
(News) Juniper has forced one of its security researchers to cancel a Black Hat talk on ATM security.
(News) A blind 19-year-old teenager has been sentenced to more than 11 years in prison for making fake 911 'swatting' calls.
(News) A computer security expert is calling for action against two Chinese companies that are facilitating spam and cybercrime on the Internet.
(News) Internet search engines and software applications can catalog huge volumes of information, but aren't smart enough to trace personal relationships.
(News) A cybersecurity bill in the U.S. Senate remains a work in progress, a staffer says.
(News) An overwhelming majority of Web sites promoted through spam are hosted in China at service providers that many times choose to ignore complaints.
(News) As German banks layer more security into online banking, security vendor Gemalto has launched a device it says makes completing transactions easier.
(News) Reporters bought a used hard drive containing sensitive Northrop Grumman contracts for $40 in Ghana.
(News) Symantec has taken a relatively hands-off approach with its integration of messaging provider MessageLabs since its acquisition of the company in November 2008.
(News) Adobe Systems released a patch on Tuesday for its Shockwave Player to fix a critical vulnerability.
(News) A criminal is using entrepreneur Guy Kawasaki's Twitter account to spread malware.
(News) McAfee is expanding its staff in China amid a boom in the country's security market it expects to continue with the launch of next-generation mobile networks.
(News) Finjan Software released on Tuesday a free add-on with a new feature that scans links, even if those links have been shortened.
(News) Symantec now offers managed endpoint protection services for round-the-clock monitoring and management of computers that use Symantec security products.
(News) Fraudsters Try to Scam Security Expert on EBay
(News) Spammers are targeting Twitter users with fake messages promoting the iPhone and the situation in Iran.
(News) Three months after an extensive, worldwide cyber espionage operation was uncovered many countries that were hacked may not have been formally notified yet.
(News) A new industry group has been launched to promote interoperability among ID verification products.
(News) Google to Try More Security on Gmail
(News) China will ask an international group to consider its WAPI security protocol for WLANs as a global standard after a similar attempt failed years ago.
(News) Apple Java Update Fixes Security Hole
(News) Feds Push Cybersecurity
(News) Security Group Converges to Fight Internet Abuse
(News) A French government plan to disconnect without trial surfers accused of copyright infringement has been ruled unconstitutional
(News) A larger number of employees are ignoring data security policies and engaging in activities that could put a company at risk, according to Ponemon Institute.
(News) The U.S. government should spend more on cybersecurity R&D and training, a group of experts says.
(News) Two ISPs have configured their networks to automatically disconnect subscribers infected with malware and clean their PCs.
(News) Microsoft has released updates for Office 2008, Office 2004, and its Open XML Convertor that focus on security.
(News) With Apple's release of Safari 4, Agile Web Solutions has updated its 1Password software to 2.9.19, adding support for the new version of the Web browser. It's a...
(News) Microsoft's latest security updates help root out a fake antivirus program called Internet Antivirus Pro.
(News) T-Mobile confirmed on Tuesday that internal information posted on the Internet by hackers was stolen from its systems.
(News) StrongWebmail has confirmed that its CEO's mail was hacked as part of a contest. It will pay out a $10,000 prize.
(News) T-Mobile is investigating a claim that a massive amount of internal data was stolen from its systems.
(News) Germany and Google remain at an impasse over how long certain data should be retained by the company for its Street View imagery.
(News) ATMs around the world are hosting malware that can harvest a person's card details for use in fraud, a situation that could worsen.
(News) Adobe Systems will deliver its first set of quarterly patches next Tuesday.
(News) Hackers are caliming to have won a $10,000 prize for hacking secure mail provider StrongWebmail.
(News) A U.K. judge ruled Thursday in favor of U.K. bank Halifax after it was sued by a man who claims he did not make eight ATM withdrawals from his account.
(News) Cybercriminals are improving a malcious software program that can be installed on ATMs and steal card data, according to security vendor Trustwave.
(News) Security company Pramana has come up with technology it says can block automated programs responsible for perpetuating nuisances such as spam.
(News) Batteries.com and Aviva report data breaches affecting hundreds of U.S. residents.
(News) While we might continuously debate glossy vs. matte screens, the visual aesthetics of a translucent dock, or the value of MobileMe, few issues in the Apple...
(News) Up to 40,000 Web sites have been hacked to redirect unwitting victims to another Web site that tries to infect the PC with malicious software.
(News) The Public Interest Registry will announce today that it has begun cryptographically signing the .org top-level domain using DNS security extensions known as...
(News) Operators should adopt DNSSEC to prevent hackers from tampering with DNS information and redirecting Web traffic to their sites.
(News) Insurance company Aetna has contacted 65,000 current and former employees whose Social Security numbers may have been compromised due to a Web site breach.
(News) An old candy-bar style Nokia 1100 mobile phone has been used to break into someone's online bank account, affirming a rumored hack.
(News) An attack on DNS servers used by a domain registrar in China ultimately crippled Internet access for several hours in parts of the country Wednesday.
(News) Symantec says that Conficker is still infecting 50,000 computers per day.
(News) Adobe Systems is combing through legacy code for bugs in its Reader and Acrobat products and plans a regular quarterly patch release.
(News) As we noted earlier, there's a rather large security hole with Java in Web browsers in all versions of OS X. Because of the way Java applets work, you can be...
(News) While Apple's safety record is pretty good--that is to say the actual number of security breaches on the platform is small--it still has some work to do in terms...
(News) Credit card fraud and identity theft on the Internet are nothing new--these days, they're just a fact of life. But in case you're not already keeping close tabs...
(News) New DNS Bug and Fix Announced
(News) Three cybersecurity groups pledge to work together and engage the Internet community to fight malware.
(News) Secret questions used to reset e-mail passwords are often easily guessable by a person's friends and, in some cases, strangers, according to a new study.
(News) ScanSafe says that more than 3,000 Web sites have been infected with Gumblar drive-by attack code.
(News) Form Armor has created a Web-based service for filtering form spam, a widespread nuisance on the Internet.
(News) Malware's Newest Threat: Fake URLs
(News) Most Attacks Come from Legit but Hijacked Sites
(News) Corporate-Espionage, E-mail Break-in Case Zaps Electronics Industry
(News) Microsoft's Patch Policy Endangers Mac Users, Researcher Says
(News) At the same time that Apple released an update to Leopard (10.5), the company also fixed a number of security issues for users running Tiger (10.4).
(News) Adobe on Tuesday patched security flaws in its Acrobat and Reader applications. The updates repair bug CVE-2009-1492, which concerns Adobe's implementation of...
(News) Software piracy is on the increase worldwide; and losses are the highest in the US; according to information released by the Business Software Alliance
(News) The security gaps in cloud computing demand greater scrutiny than traditional IT outsourcing models, a new Forrester report says.
(News) China has strengthened its cybercrime laws, pushing maximum sentences from three years to seven.
(News) A 19-year-old New Jersey man has pleaded guilty to targeting the Church of Scientology with a DDOS attack last year.
(News) For the second time this year, Johns Hopkins University has linked an employee to financial fraud.
(News) Facebook accounts that were phished last week are now being used to send spam.
(News) An audit has found that U.S air traffic controls systems are at high risk of attack due to their links to insecure Web applications run by aviation authorities.
(News) The tech industry appears split about the possibility of new cybersecurity regulations in a bill before the U.S. Congress.
(News) Researchers gained control over a well-known network of hacked computers for 10 days, gaining insight into how it steals personal and financial data.
(News) Adobe expects to have patches ready for its Acrobat and Reader products by next week.
(News) Businesses Need Cybersecurity Support, Congress Told
(News) Criminals used LexisNexis to get data for credit card fraud, the company said Friday. 32,000 people are affected.
(News) A former IT director of a US organ donation center has pleaded guilty to breaking into its network and deleting files.
(News) ProteMac on Friday announced the release of ProteMac Meter 2.6, a new version of its network activity monitor for Mac OS X. A free update for registered users...
(News) Hacker: I Broke Into Twitter
(News) A Halifax bank defends chip-and-PIN, while the plaintiff argues his cash card could have been cloned
(News) The alleged spam campaigns targeted 2,000 U.S. colleges
(News) The decision is in response to a new European intellectual-property law
(News) Opposite PGP booth, show organizers remove poster saying ElcomSoft can crack PGP passwords
(News) The apparent DDOS attack is an outdated way for Chinese hackers to make money, a researcher says
(News) Some at the hearing question whether the new White House czar is needed
(News) Health-care companies and the manufacturing industry rank at the bottom of patching exploits
(News) Lack of broad BitLocker support in Windows 7 means many users won't be protected.
(News) The Web site is a first stop for people who want to take action after a cybercrime
(News) Stealth Botnet Infects Nearly 2 Million Systems
(News) Worm Solves Gmail's CAPTCHA, Creates Fake Accounts
(News) Security Pro to Companies: Assume You're Owned
(News) ElcomSoft speeds up password cracking, while Lenovo will introduce BIOS password management software
(News) Proof-of-concept code takes control of the computer during the boot process
(News) Swamp computing might be a more appropriate name says one security expert.
(News) Integrated, centralized technology secures buildings and workers
(News) Hacked systems have been found in U.S. and U.K. government networks
(News) Trend Micro on Wednesday announced the release of Trend Smart Surfing for Mac. It's $70; a 30-day free trial is available for...
(News) The NKill database is updated daily and currently includes all .com, .org and .net domain names.
(News) Is the FBI Behind Spyware?
(News) Nokia maintains there is no software problem that would make the 1100 model desirable to hackers
(News) Hackers allegedly downloaded terabytes of data before they were discovered
(News) Attendance at the HITB Dubai conference is expected to suffer because of the economic downturn
(News) Security software maker Intego announced Monday the release of Remote Management Console 10.4.5, an update to the software...
(News) Criminals Pay Top Money for Hackable Nokia Phone
(News) The worm hacks into Twitter profiles and automatically sends unauthorized posts
(News) Over the years, Mac users have been lucky enough that the word "zombie" only conjures up the shambling brain-craving hordes of...
(News) Should We Reward Hackers for Finding Flaws?
(News) .Net-sploit can hide rootkits in a framework untouched by security software, where they can affect many applications
(News) Conference organizers say it's too soon to reveal information on a software problem
(News) Attacker would need a working exploit first, but then could remotely read text messages and other data
(News) One of the benefits of using a virtualization program such as VMware Fusion or Parallels Desktop to run Windows on your Mac is...
(News) When last we heard from the folks at GT SecuriKey, the makers of the hardware-software combo for securing laptops had just...
(News) A known Master Boot Record rootkit gets an upgrade that makes it difficult to detect
(News) An Obama administration review of cybersecurity policy is due soon
(News) The total number of infected PCs could be higher, however
(News) Avinti's e-mail security product doesn't use signatures, instead relying on observing the behavior of links and malware
(News) Meanwhile, spies gain access to the US electricity grid, H-1B applications are down and tech job cuts are up
(News) Wily worm uses P-to-P for new instructions; Other clues link it to Waledec and the Storm worm
(News) A Rhode Island jury found the company infringes on a patent held by Uniloc
(News) European version of the well-known conference promises another security surpise
(News) Security Suffers in Small Firms When Money's Tight
(News) Twitter the Competition: Security Vendors Tweet Rival Updates
(News) Most Mac users have probably never used the Get Info window's "Apply to enclosed items" command. Which is probably just as...
(News) Worm may be larger than previously thought, but IBM's estimates aren't definite
(News) Conficker: I Came, I Saw, I Did ... Nothing
(News) As extradition draws near, movement for Gary McKinnon draws celebrity support
(News) The worm has infected 500,000 of OpenDNS's more than 10 million users, the company says
(News) Details about new bill sketchy, but could include mandate on private organizations
(News) It seems oddly appropriate to talk about security today. Between malware and identity theft, everyone has more to think about...
(News) With a new and trickier Conficker variant to deal with, a group of volunteers vows to go forward and fight the worm
(News) Google's search rankings are being manipulated in order to trick people into downloading bad software
(News) If you've been paying attention to general computer news, you may have read about the Conficker worm, and what may (or may...
(News) Around 200 of its customers may have been affected by a data theft incident reported last week
(News) Extradited in late 2007, a 23-year-old Romanian man received a four-year sentence
(News) With attackers becoming more sophisticated, Internet crime complaints have jumped
(News) GhostNet Highlights Evolving Threat Environment
(News) With 60 Minutes airing a report on Sunday, some people are panicking, but researchers don't expect anything dramatic
(News) A user had control of the Microsoft, Southwest Airlines and Star Wars Pages
(News) They have discovered a way to identify people using supposedly anonymous data from social networks, phone call databases
(News) IDC data from Western Europe suggests that companies are prioritizing security during the recession
(News) We recently discussed the PWN2OWN competition at this year's CanSecWest security contest, but if you're looking to really dig...
(News) Not much data exists on what percentage of security budgets are dedicated to building strong Web apps
(News) The National Fraud Reporting Center will help investigators study international e-crime gangsters
(News) During the economic downturn, Chinese IT pros are resorting to cybercrime, experts say
(News) The site's claim of a license for anything posted there is a privacy loophole, the CDD says
(News) Hackers are becoming better at intercepting and modifying transactions in real-time
(News) Jobs losses and bonus cuts could push security gurus to the dark side.
(News) Keep Computer Spies at Bay
(News) Researchers at IOActive have written a proof-of-concept worm that could spread on next generation power meter devices
(News) Parents concerned that their iPhone and iPod touch-touting kids might be visiting unsavory Web sites now can install an...
(News) Three of the victims had used their cards to buy Symantec software
(News) Also in the report, an employee at a major North American wireless carrier is said to be part of a hacker group
(News) A cross site scripting attack on Twitter could leave it vulnerable to a fast-spreading viral attack.
(News) Hackers are making the Mac a 'first-class target' for the popular Metasploit toolkit.
(News) One attack caused US deaths, a security consultant testified to the Senate
(News) For the second year running, security researcher Charlie Miller has taken home the top prize at security conference CanSecWest...
(News) Charlie Miller defends his title; IE8 also falls on Day 1 of hacking contest
(News) Russian attack placed data-sniffing software on several banking machines.
(News) Web site will host discussions and ratings of software and Web sites that could cause trouble.
(News) Kids admit sneaking in more time online than their parents know about, but families overall are getting more savvy about...
(News) New Web attack threats like blog spam and SQL injections may change the traditional notion of security, a security researcher...
(News) Flaws in the business processes that underlie Web sites can present serious security risks, the CTO of a Web security company...
(News) The Internet will become a battleground as governments and opposition groups look to use DDOS attacks for political gains, a...
(News) A group dedicated to fighting phishing scams has developed a way for police and other organizations to report e-crime in a...
(News) Norton users were confused after Symantec sent out an unsigned program called PIFTS.exe to users Monday night.
(News) Microsoft has fixed flaws in its Windows kernel, SChannel and DNS server software.
(News) RIM has denied a report that the company records all of its employees' conversations.
(News) France and Ireland are hoping the European Commission will back a plan to create academically accredited cybercrime training...
(News) Panda says that just over 1 percent of the PCs it scanned last year had ID stealing Trojans on them.
(News) Build Security into Every Product, Coders Advised
(News) A former Los Angeles IT professional has been sentenced to four years in prison for building a botnet army.
(News) Microsoft will release one critical Windows update next week. Two important Windows updates are also planned.
(News) Russian security company Dr. Web is offering its latest security product for Windows Mobile free to subscribers of its...
(News) A federal judge has ordered spammer Sanford Wallace to stop using Facebook.
(News) IBM's Zurich research laboratory has developed a USB stick that the company says can ensure safe banking transactions even if...
(News) Russian security vendor Elcomsoft is offering a 20 percent discount for law enforcement and government agencies for some of...
(News) SpectorSoft has announced the release of eBlaster mac 2009, a surveillance and monitoring software tool for Mac OS X. It costs...
(News) Avaak on Monday launched its Vue personal video network, a wireless video monitoring system aimed at consumers.
(News) How The Internet Can Be Fixed -- Right Now
(News) Smartphones Need Smart Security
(News) Here's the lowdown on a product that can keep your PC safe.
(News) Apple's release of a public beta version of Safari 4, a new version of their Web browser, has spurred Agile Web Solutions to...
(News) A study of 57 Web site hacks from last year showed 24 percent were aimed at defacing a site rather than financial gain.
(News) SEC, FTC Investigating Heartland After Data Theft
(News) Microsoft is investigating a new vulnerability in Excel that could allow remote code execution if a user opens an infected...
(News) Microsoft is pushing out a fix for a bug in its AutoRun feature that US-CERT has deemed a security issue.
(News) Microsoft's Excel spreadsheet program has a 0-day vulnerability that attackers are already exploiting on the Internet...
(News) Security vendor SourceFire says that a new Adobe 0day attack has been around since January 9.
(News) EBay Auction Tool Web Site Infected With Malware
(News) Three Ways Twitter Security Fails
(News) Malware Troubles? Start from Square One
(News) Nothing wakes you up faster than a security vulnerability for a major piece of software. Adobe announced on Thursday that...
(News) Security companies are warning of a new flaw in two Adobe Systems programs that could compromise a PC merely by opening a...
(News) Researchers have spotted a new variant of the Conficker worm, dubbed Conficker B++.
(News) Jailed SF Network Admin Terry Childs Speaks Out
(News) Symantec is the latest company to fall prey to a Romanian hacker who has been finding SQL injection bugs in security sites.
(News) A travel reservations Web site used by several federal agencies was hacked last week, and shunted unsuspecting users to a...
(News) Hackers defaced the International Federation of the Phonographic Industry's (IFPI) Swedish Web site on Wednesday as The Pirate...
(News) Criminals stole tens of thousand of credit card numbers from Wyndham Hotels and Resorts after hacking into a computer.
(News) Trend Micro says it has spotted the first online attack based on a critical IE bug, patched last Tuesday.
(News) Symantec has announced the public beta launch of Norton Online Family, a new Internet safety service that's compatible with...
(News) Mac OS X Gets Huge Security Update
(News) Apple on Thursday released the first security update of 2009, the aptly named Security Update 2009-001. The update, which is...
(News) Microsoft Corp. would better protect users by severing Internet Explorer's connections to Windows, then patching the browser...
(News) HP and IBM are promoting a new encryption key management standard called KMIP.
(News) The hacking contest that has grabbed headlines two years running will take aim next month at browsers and smartphones...
(News) A flaw in the Application Web Loader could be used by attackers to hijack Windows computers.
(News) Macs may be all but immune to viruses, but its users are still vulnerable to classic phishing schemes. You may remember that...
(News) A patch has been released for BlackBerry devices for a problem that causes a vulnerabilty on a person's PC, according to...
(News) Hackers elicited customer details from a Portuguese partner site associated with the security company BitDefender.
(News) Microsoft has added detection for the Srizbi botnet to its Malicious Software Removal Tool.
(News) Patches fix holes in the company's Internet Explorer (IE), Office, Exchange and SQL Server software.
(News) In the current economic downturn, many companies are cutting costs and security expenses are frequently part of the equation...
(News) Kaspersky Lab says its Web site was hacked Saturday.
(News) OpenDNS has added a feature to its DNS services with help from Russian security company Kaspersky Lab to fight a widespread...
(News) Network Solutions is on a list of top-ten domain name registrars linked to spam.
(News) Redmond will also issue a patch for SQL Server that it's been working on since last April.
(News) Microsoft will release critical security patches for IE and Exchange next week and important fixes for SQL Server and Visio.
(News) The FBI is warning computer users to be wary of money-laundering scams.
(News) Employees at U.S. government security agencies including the DoD and DHS are being notified after a virus breached security at...
(News) Data breaches are costing companies more than ever as consumers shun those businesses that have lost information, according to a new study.
(News) Microsoft, HP and eBay plan to release recommendations for federal data-privacy legislation in March.
(How To) Screen overlays reduce the viewing angle so only you see private data.
(News) A new Obama Worm floats a photo of the new president on the bottom right of your desktop on Mondays.
(News) Google isn't buying the latest click fraud estimates from Click Forensics.
(News) Internet Explorer has lost market share to worthy competitors over the last few years, but it's still dominant enough that it remains the browser to attack.
(News) A McAfee survey finds that
(News) The Julie Amero porn pop up case should be history by now, but some folks just won't let it die.
(News) Orbicule has announced Undercover 3, a major new release of its theft-recovery software for Mac OS X. It costs US$49.
(News) Click fraud rate hit a record in the fourth quarter, driven in part by scammers' use of botnets.
(News) Security experts say that Microsoft's IE8 clickjacking protection will not do enough to fix the problem.
(News) Websense has bought comment spam protection provider Defensio.
(News) What information is available about you in cybersapce? Where does it come from, and what risks does it present?
(News) Web sites rigged with malicious code are becoming more numerous by the day, according to new research from security vendor AVG...
(News) The overseer of the Internet's addressing system is soliciting ideas for how to fix a problem that is enabling spam and...
(News) Hackers are turning their attention to cloud services, and Amazon's EC2 may not be prepared.
(News) Monster.com revealed that information including user e-mails has been stolen from its database.
(News) Asia and Latin America have been hardest hit by the Conficker worm, security experts say.
(News) After RIM abandoned its hostile bid for Certicom, VeriSign announced it plans to buy the security company.
(News) Following Intego's announcement Thursday that pirated copies of iWork '09 may contain a trojan horse, Symantec and...
(News) Seagate has confirmed a potential firmware problem with some of its Barracuda 7200.11 hard drives, along with related Serial...
(News) Andrew Cushman, the director of Microsoft's Security Response Center, is stepping down.
(News) Intego, makers of VirusBarrier and other security software for the Macintosh, issued a security alert for Mac users on...
(News) AT&T Business Solutions is now selling a new GPS-based technology that will give government agencies the ability to track...
(News) Save budgetary bucks by outsourcing security training to our government.
(News) Banks warn customers about possible fraud, and in one case deactivate 8,500 debit cards.
(News) Apple has released QuickTime 7.6, which includes performance tweaks and critical security fixes.
(News) On Tuesday, RIM pulled its hostile bid for security vendor Certicom after losing a related legal challenge.
(News) Oh, not again. Last week, the SANS Institute and Mitre released yet another list of the most serious programming errors that...
(News) In an effort to prevent routing hijack attacks, the U.S. government is ramping up its move to secure the Internet's routing system.
(News) Security and storage company Symantec maps out its 2009 plan of attack.
(News) Some were accidents, others were incidents -- but none of them were pretty.
(News) A flaw in Apple's Safari browser for Windows could be exploited by hackers in a bid to steal personal information from web...
(News) Researchers at the Massachsetts institute of Technology are testing a robotic forklift prototype they hope can one day unload...
(News) Dwayne Cross admitted to illegally accessing electronic records of Obama, others.
(News) Symantec is developing new projects called Vibes and GoEverywhere that look to improve browser and online security.
(News) There's nothing we love more than a good security vulnerability. It just goes to remind you once again that the only truly...
(News) Both software giants are shipping patches today essential for business security.
(News) RIM released a patch for a vulnerability that could allow malicious code to launch when opening PDF attachments on a...
(News) If you happen to accept every friend invitation you receive on Facebook or MySpace, you may want to start rethinking what...
(News) Czech security company AVG has completed a deal to acquire Sana Security, a company that specializes in detecting malicious...
(News) Sadly, this simple 'War Games'-era hack actually worked in 2009.
(News) Execs figure cutting DR for new projects will save half their cost. But to a security manager, it feels like living on the edge.
(News) Reader Adam Goetz has gotten himself into a passel of trouble in regard to his Mac's keychain. We writes:
(News) When you think of security for the Mac, you're usually talking about firewalls, encryption products, and (most...
(News) Microsoft will release just one Windows update, rated critical, when it releases its January security fixes next Tuesday.
(News) A new breed of cyberterrorists are using online forums to recruit people who support Al-Qaeda, creating global networks of...
(News) Fake LinkedIn profiles promise prurient pics, but deliver attack code. Expect more attacks to come from social networking services, says security expert.
(How To) Looking for ways to pep up your business this year? These 10 tips can help you prepare for security challenges and get organized.
(News) Most CSOs and security managers know employees are taking risks everyday that could set their company up for a breach. What...
(News) If you're a mobile Mac user who frets about the chance that someone might swipe your laptop and make off with all the...
(News) Hackers hijacked the Twitter accounts of more than 30 celebrities and organizations, including President-Elect Barack Obama, Britney Spears, and Fox News.
(News) In the case of tape vs. biometrics, tape wins -- hands down.
(News) Sacre bleu! French and German police can now routinely hack PCs and browse data -- without a warrant.
(News) Some Nokia smartphones may be vulnerable to a DOS attack that prevents them receiving SMS and MMS messages.
(News) Security advisory downplays danger; only recommendation is to keep Windows updated.
(News) My predictions for information security in 2009 are just predictions, not recommendations. I am trying to guess what will...
(News) Samsung's November alert prompts online retailer to warn Windows XP users of malware on driver CD.
(News) The Internet needs global regulation to stave off "scareware" and other security threats, researcher says.
(News) Won't say if it's sitting on a patch, but one expert expects an emergency fix.
(How To) You don't necessarily need an expensive security suite to lock down Windows Vista. Here's how to do it using free software and a few easy system tweaks.
(News) The president of Boulder software company Platte River Associates has been sentenced to probation for stealing files from a...
(News) Ultraportables forgo size, weight, power -- and security.
(News) These tips will show you how to secure yourself from the latest onslaught of viruses and holiday cyber threats.
(News) Microsoft released an emergency patch for the Internet Explorer flaw this week after Chinese security researchers accidentally...
(News) Take note of these easy tips before hanging with your peeps online.
(News) Cybercrime is likely to move into the social networking world, taking advantage of sites such as Facebook and MySpace, says...
(News) Internet-based cyberattacks are becoming increasingly sophisticated and specialized as profit-driven criminals continue to...
(News) Apple has released critical security patches for its Mac OS X software.
(News) Apple on Monday issued security updates for OS X 10.4.11 (Tiger). There are separate updates for PowerPC and Intel versions of...
(News) A security researcher reports that Google's Chrome and Apple's Safari browsers have the most insecure browser password managers.
(News) An unpatched vulnerability found in Internet Explorer 7 also affects older versions of the browser as well as the latest beta version, Microsoft warned.
(News) Chinese security researchers mistakenly released the code needed to hack a PC by exploiting an unpatched vulnerability in...
(News) Mozilla's head of security, Window Snyder, is resigning at the end of the year, she said Wednesday.
(News) A subsidiary of BlackBerry maker Research In Motion has started the hostile takeover bid for security vendor Certicom that it...
(News) WinMagic is bringing its full disk encryption technology to the Mac, the company announced this week.
(News) Along with its biggest patch release in five years, Microsoft warned on Tuesday of another potentially dangerous vulnerability in its software.
(How To) SSL/TLS protects your email connection even if your data is intercepted.
(News) Governments are blind to cybercrime, says McAfee.
(News) Asterisk vishing vulnerability is vague and unfounded.
(News) A recent congressionally-sponsored report shoots down the notion that anything wireless is secure.
(News) Cybercriminals operating worldwide are benefitting from ineffective law enforcement and a growing economic recession that...
(News) Stein Bagger, the head of a Danish IT company wanted for fraud by Interpol, surrendered to L.A. police on Saturday.
(News) An upgrade to Java Version 6 included patches for more than a dozen flaws.
(News) Critical patches for Windows, Office, IE, and other Microsoft products are due for release next week.
(News) Too many Windows users ignore Microsoft's bug-fixes, including an emergency patch issued six weeks ago, a researcher reports.
(News) The recently released Safari 3.2 and 3.2.1 updates have triggered a spate of complaints, claiming that the new versions are...
(News) Apple Recommends Passive/Aggressive Virus Support
(News) It's that time of year when employees really feel a need to shop online: Even if not on "job" time, a few minutes at lunch or before or after work can cause some significant security problems -- and imperil your data governance strategy. These tips can help increase user awareness.
(News) As President-Elect Barack Obama looks for ways to deal with a shattered economy and an ongoing war on terrorism, security...
(News) A support page on Apple's Web site recommending users purchase antivirus software for their Macs received a lot of attention...
(News) Axis Communications introduces AXIS M10 Network Cameras, a series of small and smart cameras, ideal for securing locations...
(News) Half a million PCs infected, botnet still growing, says researcher.
(News) Three London hospitals whose computer systems were infected with a relatively old worm are now almost back online.
(News) Feuding Indian and Pakistani hackers are defacing Web sites in both countries.
(News) TippingPoint says it has found a flaw in Sirius satellite radio that could be used to get free service.
(News) A network of electronic ears is quietly monitoring more than six square miles of high-crime Boston neighborhoods.
(News) Symantec is warning of a 'dramatic rise' in attacks exploiting a critical Windows bug.
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(News) The alleged bot-launcher site McColo came down at the hands of its ISP -- is that vigilantism or a digital Neighborhood Watch?
(News) There has been a 'fundamental ignorance' by the Bush administration on modern threats, says one expert.
(News) An Austrian security vendor has found a vulnerability in Windows Vista that could possibly allow an attacker to run...
(News) A 16-year-old Massachusetts boy has pleaded guilty to running a botnet and "swatting" victims with hoax emergency telephone...
(News) Computer systems at three London hospitals remained down on Wednesday morning after PCs were apparently infected with a virus...
(News) The Internet Security Alliance says government needs to provide incentives for private investment in cybersecurity.
(News) UPDATE: Computer systems at three London hospitals remained down on Wednesday morning after PCs were apparently infected with malware...
(News) Next year, Microsoft will drop its Windows Live OneCare antivirus software and instead offer a free product, called Morrow.
(News) Cybersecurity vendor NetWitness releases a free version of its Investigator network-monitoring software.
(News) Maligned ISP McColo briefly came back online over the weekend before being cut off again, according to security vendors.
(News) Tech tools and Web maps are helping guard retail outlets and catch crooks more quickly, says a jeweler's IT department.
(News) IT organizations consider security, server virtualization and business-related technologies a top priority for 2009, according...
(News) Morals and ethics join communication and programming skills in a survey of wish lists for IT workers.
(News) A report find armies of PCs are being co-opted in large number to fuel twice as many attacks as last year.
(News) Frank Boldewin had seen a lot of malicious software in his time, but never anything like Rustock.C.
(News) As Cyber Monday approaches, research suggests a majority of workers will use their work computer to shop this holiday season. But despite the continued growth in online shopping, employees and business still don't understand the risk.
(News) APC Schneider Electric is set to open a 'Power University' next year to educate a new generation of engineers about the...
(News) In an unusual move, a security company owned by IBM has publicly blasted a rival for not patching reported bugs in its...
(News) Most enterprise IT officials believe their company's employees pose a greater threat to data security than any outside source...
(News) Whom can you trust? In security, many of us nurture a healthy sense of paranoia and tend to be distrustful. But as human...
(News) A U.S.-based ISP suspected of aiding cybercriminals in online scams and hosting child pornography was at least partially cut...
(News) Computer systems that run the world's critical infrastructure are not a secure as they should be, according to a new report.
(News) Over a million of the Internet's DNS servers are still vulnerable to a cache-poisoning attack patched in July.
(News) In what may be a low-tech answer to a high-tech issue, election officials say early voting across the nation may have led to...
(News) Fifteen-year-old Peter Schmidt-Nielsen spent only a month working on his submission, but he thinks he's come up with something...
(News) Attackers are exploiting one of the vulnerabilities in Adobe Reader that was patched earlier this week, a security researcher...
(News) Future credit cards could have their own keypads and displays, allowing them to authenticate cardholders and e-commerce sites...
(News) SMobile released what it says is the first antivirus software for Android, but one analyst said it's probably not necessary.
(News) How we miss the quaint times when text was just a quick way to chat with buddies. Today, these fleeting missives, now integral...
(News) Two experts arrived in Liberia to help investigate a former government official accused of bribery, which was exposed by an...
(News) In the past three months, all three of my payments cards -- one credit card and two debit cards -- have been compromised.
(News) Barracuda Networks has bought BitLeap, a seller of backup and disaster recovery services.
(News) Customers trying to claim deposits from a collapsed Icelandic bank could be at a higher risk over the next few weeks to fall...
(News) Malware and botnets and phishing, oh my! Symantec's latest report on the Internet threat landscape highlights trends in cybercrime.
(News) Microsoft's latest security report shows the number of vulnerabilities found in its software fell for the first half of the...
(News) Voting machines of all stripes have remarkably similar flaws and though geographically scattered, inaccurate tallies of votes...
(News) E-voting critics are watching elections in several states this Tuesday.
(News) The overseer of the Internet's addressing system said on Wednesday it will delay shutting down a dodgy Estonian hosting...
(News) A malicious program that sprang up on Facebook.com in late July has surfaced again, this time using Google's Web sites to...
(News) A recent survey finds employees continue to ignore security policies. (Surprise, surprise.) Here's a reminder about what often is missing in organizations that tempts workers to walk the wrong side of security law.
(News) A British startup has developed an authentication system that only requires users to remember a pattern on a grid of numbers...
(News) Symantec is developing a startup-style Incubator division for new projects.
(News) With eight days to go before the presidential election, a report has been released by Princeton University and other groups...
(News) Whether you believe we are in or about to enter a recession, IT budgets are certainly tightening up for 2009.
(News) Companies continue to leave too much of their security apparatus in the hands of geeks in the IT department and not enough in...
(News) Technology professionals back Obama by more than 2 to 1, new poll finds.
(News) Enterprises are stepping up their efforts to counter spying operations that aim to steal their trade secrets, according to a...
(News) Software vendors are meeting later this week to discuss how to improve antivirus product tests, now often regarded as flawed...
(News) Microsoft and Yahoo have formed a group with two other partners to give law enforcement a hand in stopping bogus lottery scams...
(News) Using SimpleMail cheap mobile phones will be able get access to push e-mail.
(News) PGP Corporation has become the first company to offer full disk encryption on a software-as-a-service (SaaS) subscription...
(News) RFID tags used in two new types of border-crossing documents in the U.S. are vulnerable to snooping and copying, a researcher...
(News) Surveying the landscape of products and services that keep kid safe online.
(News) Microsoft is warning that attackers are exploiting a critical flaw in the Windows operating system and that the bug could be used in a "worm" attack.
(News) Microsoft is releasing an emergency Windows security patch on Thursday.
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(News) A 22-year-old university student has been given jail time and probation for his role in knocking down university servers...
(News) There has been a long history of attacks on the Domain Name System ranging from brute-force denial-of-service attacks to...
(News) A new study suggests CFOs and other departments within businesses get involved in assessing and reducing cyberrisks.
(News) Computer keystrokes can be snooped on from afar by detecting the slight electromagnetic radiation emitted when a key is...
(News) The risks taken by employees with company data can vary by nation and culture, a Cisco study has suggested.
(News) More troubles ahead to keep security pros up at night.
(News) Several states still do not have adequate election safeguards in place, according to a new report.
(News) Adobe has patched Flash Player security bugs that could be used in clickjacking attacks.
(News) How is information security failing? Let's count the ways.
(News) The island of Mauritius is developing a smart-card-based electronic identification system.
(News) Microsoft and Oracle are releasing critical software patches on Tuesday.
(News) Microsoft is warning of fake Windows security notification emails that contain malicious attachments.
(News) Security software suites are doing a poor job of detecting when a PC's software is under attack, according to Danish vendor...
(News) Eight years later, the infamous teen hacker wants to move from his history of downing sites to using his skills for good.
(News) IBM, LexisNexis and the Secret Service are among a group of corporations, government agencies and academic institutions that...
(News) Google has agreed to cooperate with its longtime adversary Click Forensics on click-fraud reports.
(News) A Romanian national pleaded guilty earlier this week to charges related to possession of stolen credit card information...
(News) Japan's cheap and pervasive high-speed Internet connections are finally catching up with the country.
(News) Websense has released a data loss prevention tool for network endpoints, based on its acquisition of PortAuthority, but...
(News) Symantec will pay US$695 million for MessageLabs, a security vendor that filters out spam and malicious Web traffic.
(News) Asustek Computer's Japanese arm has alerted owners of its new Eee Box low-cost desktop PC that the machine shipped with a...
(News) Business Software Alliance, in recognition of department's efforts in promoting the use of genuine software in businesses.
(News) Organizations struggle for balance between promoting innovations and ensuring security.
(News) Symantec is developing a new parental control system called Norton Family Safety.
(News) New report says Skype joint venture in China may be monitoring and storing text chat messages on insecure servers.
(News) Wal-Mart's super-streamlined retail supply chain fantasy is still just that, but there's good news on the RFID front. Tag technology has improved, and a number of companies now successfully use RFID to track high-value IT assets in house or on campus -- exactly where RFID makes the most sense.
(News) Five products strive to trap drive-by downloads and other threats in a virtual Web browsing space, with mixed results.
(News) A new service called Silver Bullet from encrypted thumb-drive vendor IronKey will let adminstrators wipe out or lock the data...
(News) Sophos has concluded its acquisition of data leak vendor Utimaco.
(News) Two Princeton University academics have found a type of coding flaw on several prominent Web sites that could jeopardize...
(News) After holding back details of a vulnerability at Adobe's request, a hacker will detail the flaw next month.
(News) An online video ad for ATM fraud devices offered a glimpse into criminals' techniques.
(News) Washington's attorney general and Microsoft discussed new lawsuits against people who distribute "scareware."
(News) As mobile operating system standardization increases, smartphone security threats become a more serious issue said a Gartner...
(News) Enterprises continue to pay too much for security software, a Gartner analyst said Monday.
(News) Many enterprises are handing out mobile devices, but overlooking unique security issues can be a fatal flaw. Here are 4 steps to take control of mobile security.
(News) Microsoft and the Washington state attorney general plan to sue several makers of scareware programs on Monday.
(News) A Trojan can add data entry fields to legitimate online banking sites and entice consumers to give up additional information.
(News) Neosploit, the notorious hacker exploit kit that some thought had been retired months ago, has not only returned from the...
(News) Analyze and map employee job functions to the appropriate IT privileges.
(News) McAfee buys Secure Computing for $465 million.
(News) If you're a nice person, you probably think that being nice works to your advantage in the office. After all, how could it be...
(News) Palin News Roundup: Hackers, politicians, Secret Service, an FBI investigation, and Republican vice-presidential nominee Gov. Sarah Palin's hacked Yahoo account.
(News) Two groups file a lawsuit asking the court to force the U.S. trade office to reveal details of a secret trade pact.
(News) A hacker has released attack code that exploits an unpatched vulnerability in Apple Inc.'s QuickTime, just a week after the...
(News) UPDATE: Campaign confirms Wikileaks hacked into Sarah Palin's personal Yahoo account.
(News) The Indian government plans to direct ISPs there to secure their Wi-Fi connections, citing the threat of terrorism.
(News) A private group recommends that responsibility for government cybersecurity be taken away from the U.S. DHS.
(News) The European Commission's justice and security department is seeking outside help to improve Internet and telecoms security in...
(News) U.S. officials plan to focus on backdoors built into tech products and a better cyberdefense system.
(News) What Japan lacks in geographic size, it more than makes up for in Internet attack traffic.
(News) On Monday McAfee will release Total Protection for Virtualization, a security suite designed to run in virtual machine...
(News) The FBI has been working since 2003 to crack down on Romanian phishers, a senior FBI official said Friday.
(News) A Virginia court overturns the state's antispam law and the conviction of a spammer.
(News) Cloud computing, mobile workers, and new gadgets all force security pros to rethink how they protect their data and systems outside their walls.
(News) Symantec's latest security software in its consumer Norton line install in less than a minute and use much less memory.
(News) A security researcher has released easy-to-use attack code that targets industrial SCADA systems.
(News) Microsoft has released its September security patches, fixing critical flaws in the GDI+ software used by Windows.
(News) A resident of Malaysia is sentenced to two years in U.S. prison for his participating in an online stock scheme.
(News) The Center for Information Security will soon release guidelines for how enterprises can measure the state of their...
(News) There has been a ''significant increase' in the number of organizations rethinking their disaster recovery (DR) plans because...
(News) Google garnered headlines all week with its new Chrome browser. Rival Microsoft announced it will release just four patches...
(News) VARs are concerned about U.S. cybersecurity and health-care costs, according to a survey.
(News) Gag order slapped on MIT students reignites debate on what 'responsible disclosure' means.
(News) One of the most popular programs used by some to illegally share files under copyright has patched a serious software...
(News) John McCain issued a statement on Thursday with his thoughts on online security and privacy issues.
(News) The botnet created by a teenager who was arrested by Dutch police in an outdoor sting is most notable for its total reliance...
(News) AOL Phisher Michael Dolan has been sentenced to seven years in prison.
(News) A class-action suit charges Facebook with privacy law violations for implementation of its Beacon program.
(News) Find out how and where they hide, what they're hiding, and how you can (and can't) stop them.
(News) Hackers, perhaps affiliated with a well-known Russian criminal network, have attacked and hijacked Web sites belonging to...
(News) Defcon attendee Sherri Davidoff travelled to the conference without ID. She spotted a few flaws in the TSA system along the...
(News) After Riviera hotel management nixed his planned demonstration, one defcon hacker found a way to launch what he calls a...
(News) UPDATE: The Electronic Frontier Foundation plans to appeal a court order halting a Defcon talk about security problems with Boston-area transit smartcards.
(News) A Defcon talk on hacking Boston's transit smartcard system has been scrapped, following a court order.
(News) Fake Google video link takes Facebook users to a malicious site, infecting computers.
(News) Apple has taken the place of Microsoft for disclosing more vulnerabilities than any other vendor, according to an IBM security...
(News) Founders of Defcon's Wall of Sheep have started an education and security awareness consultancy.
(News) Black Hat presentations show a new spin on detecting potential threats.
(News) With technical details officially released, attackers can take over vulnerable networks. Here's what you need to know.
(News) Facebook has blocked a malware attack targeting its users.
(News) A network service that traps more malicious software than a single antivirus program can alone could be the next weapon in...
(News) Three French reporters at the Black Hat security conference were ejected for hacking into the show's press network.
(News) Dan Kaminsky says that SSL sites are also vulnerable to the DNS flaw he discovered.
(News) Hackers used sophisticated attacks to steal millions of credit card numbers from U.S. retailers, according to court documents...
(News) A missing laptop containing unencrypted personal information of 33,000 travelers has been recovered.
(News) The U.S. DOJ wants to seize the property of a Florida Internet-based company operating an alleged Ponzi scheme.
(News) Oracle has released an emergency patch for a flaw it issued a rare security alert for last week.
(News) Symantec reported a 16 percent jump in revenue, to $1.66 billion, for its most recent quarter.
(News) Symantec pulls the curtains from its Web search safety rating tool, but it has some catching up to do
(News) UPDATE: A British hacker who broke into U.S. military computers looks set to be extradited to the U.S. after a British court ruling.
(News) Senator Sam Brownback said Tuesday that China is forcing hotels foreign-owned hotels to install eavesdropping equipment ahead...
(News) A new study warns companies that allow telecommuting to pay more attention to security risks.
(News) A Georgia college student has been charged with hacking into his school's computers to change his grades.
(News) Being a technology reporter, my e-mail inbox is a crowded place.
(News) Oracle is scrambling to create an emergency patch for a severe vulnerability in the company's WebLogic server, as exploit code...
(News) RealNetworks has issued four critical patches for several versions of its RealPlayer running on Windows, Linux and Apple's Mac...
(News) Emailappenders, a database company, maintains its data is good after being accused of selling a bunk e-mail list to Javelin...
(News) Convicted spammer Eddie Davidson has killed himself, apparently after murdering his wife and three year-old daughter.
(News) A marketing company is warning others to stay away from e-mail lists offered for sale by other companies.
(News) Attack code has been released for a major flaw in the Internet's DNS software.
(News) The eye of tech-artist Benjamin Males' custom-made surveillance camera is engineered for a black and white world.
(News) An easy-to-use toolkit used to hack computers has now been updated to take advantage of an unpatched security vulnerability in...
(News) The ACLU and other groups file a lawsuit challenging a new surveillance law in the U.S.
(News) Advanced fee fraud scams are on the rise, far outpacing law enforcement's ability to keep up.
(News) Senators grill State Department officials about unauthorized access of passport files.
(News) Senators question NebuAd on its information collection practices.
(News) A major Web hosting provider is bringing open-source groupware to the US market.
(News) UPDATE: Symantec is warning of a possible 0day flaw in Microsoft Word that is being exploited by cybercriminals.
(News) Security researcher Dan Kaminsky has discovered a flaw in the DNS protocol that allows attackers to spoof Internet addresses.
(News) A targeted advertising program adopted by several ISPs may be illegal, privacy groups say.
(News) Microsoft has released patches for Exchange, SQL Server, and Windows, including a fix for a widespread flaw in DNS.
(News) The Senate resumes debate on a controversial surveillance bill.
(News) CNET employees and relatives are being notified after a data breach at the company's health plan administrator.
(News) The Liberty Alliance has released the first versions of two key frameworks for how businesses can share and protect sensitive...
(News) The U.S. House of Representatives passes a bill allowing wide-ranging surveillance of phone calls and e-mails in and out of...
(News) A Dutch charity is funding an open-source project to design a smart card that offers stronger protection of personal data.
(News) FaceTime Communications has added a feature to its security appliance that lets administrators filter out third-party...
(News) Two Orange County teenagers have been charged with breaking into school computers, installing spyware and altering grades.
(News) A new report says a targeted ad vendor used by some ISPs hijacks browsers and eavesdrops on users.
(News) Privacy advocates and senators call for improvements in the way the U.S. government handles personal information.
(News) Security researchers with Finjan Software are seeing a growing thirst from cybercriminals for data other than credit-card...
(News) When the Commonwealth of Massachusetts issued Michael Fiola a Dell Latitude in November 2006, it set off a chain of events...
(News) Fortinet has acquired the assets of IPLocks, a database security vendor.
(News) A U.S. judge has ordered a Canadian company to stop sending bogus invoices to U.S. small businesses and nonprofits.
(News) The U.S. Senate passes a bill requiring 911 networks to allow VoIP providers to connect.
(News) A 19-year-old Chinese alleged hacker is in police custody after putting a false earthquake warning on a provincial...
(News) Security experts say that claims that Chinese hackers accessed the computers of U.S. congressmen are not well substantiated.
(News) Two groups asked an appeals court to rehear a case allowing searches of laptops at the U.S. border.
(News) Spyware experts urge changes to an antispyware bill before a U.S. Senate committee.
(News) OpenOffice.org has issued a patch for a security vulnerability affecting several versions of the open-source office suite.
(News) A California hacker pleaded guilty to launching a computer attack last year that almost knocked the Castlecops anti-phishing...
(News) Apple has again released a new version of QuickTime, its multimedia player that has been plagued by software vulnerabilities.
(News) Verisign estimates that spear-phishing attacks have taken in 15,000 victims over the past 15 months.
(News) Microsoft will release three critical security updates next Tuesday. A total of seven updates are planned.
(News) Experts discussed ways to improve online safety and better prevent cybercrime at a security conference in Seattle.
(News) Craigslist's founder talked about some of the simple ways that the site combats fraud.
(News) McAfee named ".hk" the world's most dangerous top-level domain.
(News) Europe's Internet security agency, ENISA, wants new legislation to police social networking sites such as Facebook and...
(News) Most retailers do not disclose data breaches after they happen, Gartner says.
(News) A TJX employee has been fired for discussing the company's information security problems.
(News) The FBI is warning about e-mail scammers trying to make money from last week's massive earthquake in China's Sichuan province...
(News) One of the researchers behind ScanAlert, the "Hacker Safe" certification company McAfee recently acquired, is facing fraud...
(News) Thirty-eight people in the U.S. and Romania have been charged in two indictments alleging they used complicated Internet...
(News) UPDATE: Servers in China and Taiwan are facing a mass SQL injection attack, according to security researchers in Taiwan.
(News) Researchers have developed two new techniques for stealing data from a computer that use some unlikely hacking tools: cameras...
(News) A new security system from Fujitsu aims to improve security in facilities like datacenters by catching attempts to tailgate...
(News) A Missouri woman whose online taunting was blamed in the 2006 suicide of her 13-year-old neighbor now faces criminal charges.
(News) A server problem at the U.S. National Security Agency has knocked the secretive intelligence agency off the Internet.
(News) An anonymous hacker has posted personal data about 6 million Chilean residents on the Internet, highlighting wider privacy...
(News) Security researchers have developed a new type of malicious rootkit software that hides itself in an obscure part of a...
(News) Microsoft plans to fix critical bugs in its Word, Publisher and Jet database software next week.
(News) Facebook is following in the footsteps of its rival MySpace by reaching an online safety agreement with the attorneys general...
(News) Mozilla shipped a Firefox plug-in that contained virus-infected code.
(News) Mozilla warned Wednesday that a malicious program inserted adware code into a Firefox plugin that has been downloaded...
(News) Run this quick check to see if your company site has been hit by this ongoing attack.
(News) Security researcher Aviv Raff has published code that would allow someone to take control of a computer running Internet...
(News) Adware pushers have found a new way to trick you into downloading their annoying products: fake MP3 files.
(News) A new, volunteer computer emergency response team aims to be a clearinghouse of security information for open source projects.
(News) WabiSabiLabi, the company best known for building an online marketplace for security flaws, is getting into the hardware...
(News) Starting Tuesday, there will be a few less Web sites popping up in Yahoo searches.
(News) VMware says it's received a bad rap when it comes to security.
(News) Google has thrown its weight behind a fledgling security reporting group for the open-source community.
(News) The bounceback e-mail messages come in at a trickle, maybe one or two every hour. The subject lines are disquieting: "Cyails...
(News) A former U.S. military contractor has pleaded guilty to exceeding authorized access to a computer and aggravated identity...
(News) A federal judge has ordered convicted spammer Eddie Davidson to just under two years in prison for sending out a large volume...
(News) A Woodbury, Connecticut, man has been sentenced to 30 months in prison for operating Web sites where users could download...
(News) The growing use of encryption software -- like Microsoft's own BitLocker -- by cyber criminals has led Microsoft to develop a...
(News) A New York man is facing up to four years in prison after pleading guilty last week to posting fake job ads for technology...
(News) Botnet fighters have another tool in their arsenal, thanks to Microsoft.
(News) Microsoft spends millions of dollars each year developing security products that it gives to law enforcement agencies, knowing...
(News) A security think tank says it has found a vulnerability in Apple's QuickTime multimedia player that can be exploited remotely...
(News) There will be a new contest at the Defcon hacker conference this August, one that antivirus vendors already hate.
(News) Some people might dream of having the power to kill a product just before launch at a company the size of Microsoft, but for...
(News) Spammers are using an automated method to create bogus pages on Google's Blogger service.
(News) Two weeks after discovering that its Web site had been used by hackers to flog fancy wedding rings, Southern Connecticut State...
(News) Using off-the-shelf tools, hackers could craft exploits for software vulnerabilities in as little as 30 seconds after studying a...
(News) While CNN recently faced distributed denial-of-service attacks from Chinese hackers angry about the television network's...
(News) Companies are having more success in pressuring software vendors into baking security into their products, a trend that...
(News) Companies are having more success at getting vendors to bake security into their products, the research director for the SANS Institute said Wednesday.
(News) After being called off Friday, the on-again, off-again cyber attack against CNN's Web site again picked up steam early this...
(News) It would seem logical to think most Internet users are annoyed by software that causes pop-up advertisements to appear on...
(News) Bruce Schneier is one of the foremost experts on cryptography and is a well-known security author and commentator. He is the...
(News) China faces a growing threat from botnets, networks of computers infected with software that allows them to be controlled...
(News) Criminals changed tactics in the last six months of 2007, dropping malicious e-mail in favor of Web-based attacks, according...
(News) Security and wide-area network acceleration company Blue Coat Systems has made a deal to buy Packeteer, a longtime WAN...
(News) Western Europe will increase spending on IT security products despite the shaky economic conditions caused by the credit...
(News) A notorious online gang known for its prolific phishing operations has expanded its means of attack, potentially putting more...
(News) For years, hackers have focused on finding bugs in computer software that give them unauthorized access to computer systems...
(News) Microsoft's system to thwart automatic registrations of e-mail accounts leads to "a false sense of security," according to two...
(News) Panos Anastassiadis didn't click on the fake subpoena that popped into his inbox on Monday morning, but he runs a computer...
(News) Tips from security guru Jeremiah Grossman for keeping your company's site safe.
(News) A security researcher claims to have found a significant weakness in the wireless encryption of a DSL home gateway made by...
(News) A Colombian man who used keylogging software in a lucrative identity theft scheme has been sentenced to nine years in prison...
(News) Adobe has upgraded its Flash Player to fix seven vulnerabilities in the graphics and video software widely used for intera...
(News) Adobe has upgraded its Flash Player to fix seven vulnerabilities in the graphics and video software widely used for intera...
(News) When Owen Walker was arrested for masterminding a massive international network of compromised computers last year, it see...
(News) Microsoft can't build the next generation of trusted computer systems on its own, the company's chief research and strateg...
(News) IBM researchers are developing new attack prevention technology for the company's virtualization products.
(News) Looking to expand its line of identity management products, Hitachi has bought a majority ownership interest in M-Tech Information Technology, a vendor of password management software.
(News) Cisco Systems and EMC are expanding a partnership to ensure the security of sensitive enterprise data.
(News) Companies that must retain e-mail for compliance reasons will be able to keep tabs on BlackBerry mail with Gwava's new program.
(News) A vulnerability that affects SAP's MaxDB hasn't garnered any bids yet on a controversial auction site for computer vulnerabilities.
(News) Cisco is advising Windows users of its Cisco Security Agent software to upgrade the product because of a security bug.
(News) Web-based applications and security holes in Microsoft Office are among the biggest threats faced by Internet users today, according to the SANS Institute's annual security report.
(News) Security software vendor Webroot plans to acquire Email Systems Ltd., a provider of e-mail and Web protection services.
(News) Microsoft is still experiencing growing pains as it brings its consumer and enterprise security products and service up to speed.
(News) Nearly three-quarters of U.S. government IT managers and decision-makers are spending more time on mandated security requirements than they did a year ago, but only about half feel more confident in their agency's security, according to a survey released Thursday.
(News) As the size of the world's mobile workforce continues to increase rapidly, so too does the threat such remote workers represent to their organizations and IT departments, due largely to a lack of related security training and awareness, according to a recent study.
(News) McAfee will acquire ScanAlert, a Web application security vendor, for US$51 million, the companies announced Tuesday.
(News) Malicious code that installs files such as Trojans, password stealers, keyboard loggers and other malware on users' systems registered a fivefold increase in the first half of 2007, according to research released by Microsoft at the RSA Security conference in London.
(News) Hewlett-Packard Co. introduced on Wednesday a security technology that ensures printed documents get to the right people and protects against malware.
(News) Dan Lohrmann, Michigan's chief information security officer, found out about the cyber sit-in from a reporter. It was Tuesday, May 15, 2007, and a group calling itself the Electronic Disturbance Theater asked Michigan residents to voice their opposition to proposed cuts in state healthcare programs by targeting the Michigan gov website. Over the next two days, participants accessed the group's website and downloaded a small browser plug-in that repeatedly hit Michigan.gov. Though Electronic Disturbance Theater sees its actions as a mixture of performance art and civil disobedience, to Lohrmann, it looked very much like a denial-of-service attack. "Had a million people joined in, it would have been interesting," says Lohrmann. "Not in a good way."
(News) Check Point Software has beefed up its enterprise security gateways, in an effort to protect corporate networks against the risks associated with IM and peer-to-peer application such as Skype.
(News) McAfee Adds Mobile Security with Trust Digital Purchase
(News) Symantec Promises Safer Surfing with Norton DNS
(News) Google Wi-Fi Snooping Should Serve As Security Wakeup Call
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(News) Google Dropping Windows over Security? Good Luck with That
(News) Panda Security Expands Free Cloud Antivirus Protection
(News) Protect Your PCs Against Adobe Security Flaws
(News) Patch Tuesday Updates Fix Critical Flaws in IE and DirectShow
(News) Should You Worry about the iPad 3G Data Leak?
(News) Protect Windows XP from Zero-Day Flaw in HCP Protocol
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