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Security firm Trend Micro has released TrendProtect, a free browser plug-in that alerts computer users to unsafe Web sites that contain unwanted content and hidden threats. The free download is designed to help consumers and business Web surfers avoid an alarming number of Web sites infected with ma...
A sophisticated group of spammers has been targeting since late May high-salaried workers at selective corporations in a spam attack using e-mail disguised as messages from the Better Business Bureau, the Internal Revenue Service and the Federal Trade Commission. A fourth variation of the spam attac...
It goes without saying that most IT shops operate in a high-stress, high-workload environment. As technologists, we have limited budgets, limited staff, and dozens of projects on our plate -- it often feels like there aren't enough hours in the day just to keep up with today's workload, never mind p...
U.S. Department of Homeland Security CIO Scott Charbo was in the hot seat Wednesday, testifying before a Congressional subcommittee on the hundreds of security breaches that have occurred at various areas within his organization in the last couple of years. Some reports pin the number around 800, an...
Following the massive cyberattacks against the Baltic country of Estonia in April, NATO on Thursday asserted that cyberdefense must now be a priority among member nations. Several defense ministers, including Estonia's, raised the issue during a meeting at NATO headquarters in Brussels, Belgium, and...
The FBI is launching a new initiative in the cyber crime wars, taking on the criminal organizations -- the so-called "bot herders" -- that have gathered under their control compromised or zombie PCs. The bot herders' purpose is to send out malware or spam and phishing campaigns over the Internet tha...
People who use popular file-sharing software at home, in school and in the workplace to download music and videos are likely to expose their own personal and corporate data stored on their computers' hard drives. The ability of peer-to-peer software to hunt for and grab personal and corporate inform...
Microsoft has released its latest batch of fixes in this month's Patch Tuesday announcement, employing a new format that makes it easier for IT administers to single out areas of risk, according to Amol Sarwate, research manager of the vulnerability research lab at Qualys. The new format doesn't giv...
The European Union's Justice and Home Affairs Commissioner, Franco Frattini, gave a thumbs-up to Google's offer to cut the time it keeps identifiable search user data down from 24 months to 18 months. Frattini's comments came Wednesday during a news conference in Luxembourg. "I think it is indeed a ...
YouTube is planning to test new technology that will help it identify copyrighted video content that has been uploaded onto the site illegally, according to reports. In tests with Time Warner and the Walt Disney Co., the video-sharing site will assess software developed by engineers at its parent co...
Under pressure from the European Union's Data Protection Working Party, search giant Google said it will "anonymize" its search server logs after 18 months. However, Google also stressed it will never alter the data sooner than 18 months after its creation and will comply with laws that could requir...
A London-based privacy advocacy group, Privacy International, has ranked the world's No. 1 search engine company worse in protecting customer privacy than any of nearly two dozen other major Internet-based companies. "Throughout our research, we have found numerous deficiencies and hostilities in Go...
Fulfilling its May promise to provide more details in its "Security Bulletin Advance Notification," Microsoft unveiled the new format in an advance alert issued last week. The upcoming "Patch Tuesday" on June 12 will include six security bulletins for Internet Explorer, Outlook Express, Windows, Vis...
A former substitute teacher for a Connecticut middle school has been granted a retrial following a conviction that launched a wave of sympathy and outrage. Julie Amero could have been sentenced to 40 years in prison after being found guilty of exposing her students to Internet pornography. However, ...
The latest search engine safety report by McAfee SiteAdvisor states that Web search results are slowly getting safer, but it also asserts that search providers can do more to weed out sponsored links from scammers, malware spewers and other "bad actors." Search engine companies have the ability to c...
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