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I've been covering the Leopard launch for the last three weeks and will now wrap it up. There have been some issues with the new OS, but nothing critical, and it appears to be a near-flawless launch. Moving to a more interesting battle, Black Friday is coming up and it looks like the HD DVD folks ar...
A report that an "electronic jihad" will be launched next week against 15 anti-Muslim Web sites by al Qaeda has stirred up the network security community. While some have viewed the warning with skepticism, others are reluctant to put such an idea past the capabilities or desires of the terrorist g...
Presidential candidate and Texas congressman Ron Paul has an ardent following of tech-savvy supporters -- at least one of which may have employed the use of hijacked PCs from around the world to spread pro-Paul spam. Several security researchers have noted a blast of spam e-mail messages sent earlie...
Research into encryption technology is on the rise at universities and colleges, spurred on by technological advances, pressing security needs, and new legislation and regulations. Investigators in both industrial and academic settings are now looking into a wide range of areas where encryption can ...
Technological advances are making adoption of network and data encryption more practical than ever, spurring its use in enterprises. Sixty-six percent of respondents to a Ponemon Institute survey said they were hatching strategic plans to meet their organizations' encryption needs, and 16 percent of...
A Moscow-based software maker filed this week for a U.S. patent on a technology it claims will significantly reduce the time it takes to crack computer passwords. The Russian company, Elcomsoft, said in a statement that it has discovered "a breakthrough technology that will decrease the time that it...
Spyware was originally designed to observe users' Internet patterns and deliver pop-up ads based on their individual browsing and shopping preferences. Now, although pop-up ads continue to be a nuisance, hackers are far more focused on spyware as crimeware: computer programs designed expressly to fa...
We are on final countdown to the launch of Mac OS X Leopard. You'll see lots of feature head-to-head pieces start to ramp up, but the real difference is that Vista is from an engineering-driven company while Leopard is from a marketing-driven company -- and that is worth exploring this week. Last we...
A teenager from Washington state was arrested last week on charges of hacking into an Orange County, Calif., 911 system and tricking the Orange County Sheriff's Department into sending a SWAT team to an innocent couple's home in Lake Forest. The accused perp, 19-year-old Randall Ellis, of Mulkiteo, ...
Half a year after its first rollout of a passenger imaging security scanner in the Phoenix airport, the Transportation Security Administration is testing another form of this technology there. Its latest security machine is based on millimeter-wave technology, which is similar in function to the X-r...
Microsoft kept to its schedule in rolling out its October "Patch Tuesday" updates, which included four "critical" fixes -- two deemed "important" -- that in total address nine flaws. The security updates range from crucial patches for the Kodak Image Viewer to Microsoft's Outlook Express and Windows...
The day has come. Fingerprint biometrics is real technology for real people. Spurred by the size and cost advantages of fingerprint sensors and a growing need for security, biometric fingerprint technology is being integrated into more and more devices, including laptop PCs from the leading manufact...
Using digitally descrambled images of a suspected pedophile, Interpol issued a global alert Monday, asking for the public's help in identifying the man. The man in the images had posted online about 200 images of himself sexually abusing 12 young boys in Vietnam and Cambodia, but every photo of him ...
A compromised Marin County, Calif., Web site apparently prompted U.S. officials to temporarily shut down all of the state government's Internet sites this week. Last month, the Marin County transportation authority Web site was reportedly hacked to redirect traffic to a porn site. Following several ...
Microsoft on Wednesday announced that it will open up its .Net source code for developers to view, but not change. The source code will be available later this year when Visual Studio 2008 and the .Net Framework 3.5 are released to manufacturing, Scott Guthrie, a general manager in Microsoft's devel...
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