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Hackers are targeting users of some older versions of Microsoft Excel with a zero-day exploit that could compromise their data, according to a security advisory Microsoft issued Tuesday. The vulnerability is in Microsoft Office Excel 2003 Service Pack 2, along with Microsoft Office Excel Viewer 2003...
Security provider Webroot on Tuesday released its namesake e-mail security Software as a Service solution. Targeted at small to medium-sized businesses, Webroot's new offering delivers better protection, lower total cost of ownership, and better value than perimeter security appliances or software, ...
A little more than two weeks into 2008, cyber-criminals are up to their same old tricks -- stealing users' private data -- but they have concocted a far more advanced and sophisticated method. They are now embedding their malicious code into legitimate Web sites using Web-hosting servers, according ...
A government Web site meant to aid travelers in removing their names from the Do Not Fly list inadvertently exposed thousands of personal data files to malicious hackers, according to a congressional report released on Friday. While the committee takes the TSA to task for failing to comply with gove...
A federal judge has sentenced a former systems administrator for Medco Health Solutions to 30 months in prison Tuesday for planting a "logic bomb" in Medco's computer systems that was designed to wipe out critical data on more than 70 servers, U.S. Attorney Christopher J. Christie announced. A progr...
There have been many indications in recent months that the music industry is on the cusp of a sea change, and two announcements on Monday suggested that the change is nigh. First, as anticipated in reports last week, Sony BMG Music Entertainment officially announced the launch of its Platinum MusicP...
Google raised Web surfers' hackles after a seemingly simple change linking its Google Reader service with Google Talk. The move has raised concerns about privacy and highlighted the delicate balancing act that companies with vast stores of personal data have to perform as they try to improve their o...
It's Christmas Eve, and you're probably thinking more about what you are going to open tomorrow than anything else, so I was tempted to keep this light. However, I was pulled onto a TV news program to talk about what may be the most dangerous prank of the year and I want to make sure you and your fa...
As you read a sentence, its meaning may be clear even before you reach its end. This illustrates our topic. Our minds process text sequentially. As we read, the context presented to us by an author develops in our minds. What precedes clarifies what follows, and vice-versa. This phenomenon is a resu...
Malware is replacing Google text ads with ads from another source, according to BitDefender. The virus, Trojan.Qhost.WU, is using the host's file to redirect the initial query sent to the Google Adsense servers to a malicious host, according to an advisory issued by the firm. The host's file is the...
Online content creation is an increasingly popular pastime among American teens, but there are sharp differences in the media preferred by boys and girls, according to a new report from the Pew Internet & American Life Project. A full 64 percent of online teenagers ages 12 to 17 engage in at lea...
Security researcher Aviv Raff has published a vulnerability affecting Google's Toolbar browser feature. The weak spot Raff reported could let a hacker gain control of a user's PC when the user tries to add a new Google Toolbar button. The vulnerability is based on spoofing a trusted site that would ...
A security update released by Microsoft last week is wreaking havoc with Internet Explorer for some users. Shortly after Microsoft issued its MS07-069 security bulletin last Tuesday, users began posting reports of problems with Internet Explorer on support newsgroups, including the Windows Update gr...
Web 2.0 applications are quickly taking over traditional activities on the Internet. Web sites are becoming interactive as they offer multiple function applications. This, in turn, is creating greater security risks for both consumers and network operators. One of the biggest concerns is the need fo...
Internet users are increasingly curious about the information about them that's available online, but they're not doing much to monitor that information in a structured way. That's one finding of a new study released Sunday by the Pew Internet and American Life Project. The study found that while 47...
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