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Microsoft's long-awaited and much-delayed update to its Windows operating system -- officially called Windows XP Service Pack 2 -- is finally ready and will be released to consumers later this month, the company said Thursday. Windows Service Pack 2 includes various security updates meant to fix som...
IBM has announced it is contributing its Java-based Cloudscape database software to the open-source community via the Apache Software Foundation, which will inspect the code and establish it as an open-source Java database to be called "Derby." IBM has been credited for supporting Linux and the open...
Microsoft has broken its monthly cycle of security updates to plug a few holes in its Internet Explorer browser, including the Download.Ject scripting weakness that caused a widespread, Web-based attack scare in June. The Download.Ject vulnerability and similar browser weaknesses prompted many secur...
As U.S. elections draw near, computer science experts and e-voting critics are making dire predictions about the outcome if paperless, closed-code touch-screen machines are used by Americans casting their ballots. The criticism grew into a challenge at the Black Hat Security Conference in Las Vegas ...
Virus writers busily scribbled code during the first half of 2004, introducing 4,677 new viruses into the wild, a 21 percent increase over the same period last year, according to a report released by Sophos, an international maker of antivirus and antispam software. "There's a greater interest in wr...
U.S. Sen. Orrin Hatch and other parties with a stake in the wars over peer-to-peer (P2P) software should meet with commercial P2P industry companies to talk about the so-called INDUCE Act. This is the point of view expressed by StreamCast Networks CEO Mike Weiss, one of several industry leaders who ...
Experts at Sophos have warned computer users that a file posing as photographic evidence that Osama Bin Laden has killed himself is in fact infected by the Hackarmy Trojan horse. Thousands of messages have been posted onto internet message boards and usenet newsgroups claiming that journalists from ...
Two of the world's largest computer and software companies have been sued by UK-based BTG International for patent infringement over Web-enabled software update and other technologies. BTG, a UK-based intellectual property and technology development company, along with New York-based Teleshuttle, fi...
Antivirus company Sophos's virus researchers reported the first ever virus to infect the Microsoft Pocket PC operating system. The Duts virus (W32/Duts-A) is able to infect PDAs running the Pocket PC operating system, and it was reportedly written by the 29A virus writing gang. This is the same grou...
Spyware, an intrusive malicious software -- or malware -- application that slips into computers via free downloads and visits to some Web sites, is quickly becoming the second most troublesome computer malady after virus infections. Spyware can track Web surfing habits and send the results to purvey...
Microsoft has released its monthly round of patches, including two patches for critical vulnerabilities and one that patches a hole that could become the basis of a widespread computer worm attack. At the same time as the patch release, a Danish company announced additional security holes in Microso...
Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer kicked off the third and final day of the Microsoft Worldwide Partner Conference 2004 -- the company's main event for business partners -- with a message of increased company investments to fuel innovation in the industry. "For businesses dedicated to innovating with tech...
After more than 70 months without a significant drop in its share of the U.S. Web browser market, Microsoft Internet Explorer (IE) saw its hold on the mouse clicks of Web surfers slip by one percent over the last month. On the basis of a daily survey of some 30 million browsers, WebSideStory, a San ...
More than a third of the software on the world's PCs has been pirated from its makers, according to a study released yesterday by the Business Software Alliance (BSA), whose members include Adobe, Apple, Cisco Systems, IBM and Microsoft. The annual study -- this year conducted for the first time by ...
Microsoft has hit the news once again by invoking its next major update to Windows XP -- called Service Pack 2 (SP2) -- in response to the significant security risks that have emerged over the past couple weeks. This time, the company has gone beyond its vague time frame for releasing SP2 "later thi...
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