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Lenovo unveiled on Wednesday three new notebooks built around a new processor and chip set announced the same day by Intel. Lenovo engineered both the ThinkPad T61 and the ThinkPad R61 with its new Top Cover Roll Cage for enhanced durability, an improved thermal management cooling and efficiency sys...
On the surface, the recent brouhaha with Digg and the HD DVD encryption key posted on the site seems to be about cracking the code to let people copy movies. While most people may think digital rights management is a pain in the butt and a waste of time in the effort to fight illegal copying for com...
Google is partnering with the states of Arizona, California, Utah and Virginia in a joint effort to make it easier for people to find public information via the Web. In announcing the arrangements, Google said the deals reflect a recognition that people are often frustrated by the inability of Web s...
Microsoft released last week details about its SecPAL project to encourage collaboration from the grid computing community on methods for greater security and access controls. Microsoft developed SecPAL, or Security Policy Assertion Language, as a research project to develop a language for expressin...
The data drip is here. Computer security experts are worried that corporate data leaking from networks onto small mobile storage devices will worsen into a flood of stolen customer and company information. Over half of all information leaks travel to personal data storage devices such as USB drives,...
Martin Carmichael, the chief security officer for security software developer McAfee, is responsible for IT security, forensics, risk management, physical security, IT security engineering, and compliance with regulatory controls. He also serves as the chief privacy officer for McAfee. His more than...
Microsoft on Wednesday announced plans to offer a fix to a critical flaw in Windows Domain Name System servers that is being exploited by cybercriminals. The zero-day flaw, found on servers running Windows Server 2000 Service Pack 4 and Windows Server 2003 Service Pack 1 and Service Pack 2, gives at...
You don't have to be a Democrat to scoff at the White House's recent assertion that some e-mails related to the recent firing of eight U.S. attorneys may be permanently lost. You just have to know something about networking and computers. "To truly lose an e-mail to the point that it is unrecoverabl...
Few things are as disturbing to Internet users as the thought of someone spying on them and capturing their every keystroke. Unfortunately, this has been happening more frequently as the use of keyloggers, phishing and spoofing grows. In 2006, Keylogging was the fastest-growing type of malware in w...
The U.S. government has received the not-so-stellar grade of "C-" in an annual report card on its IT security practices. The good news is that compared to earlier rankings mandated by the Federal Information Security Management Act, or FISMA, the government has improved its score. The Department of ...
Two new variations of the Storm Worm virus on Thursday likely marked the largest proliferation of e-mail virus attacks in more than a year, according to security company Postini. "We're seeing 50 to 60 times the average daily volume of spam," Adam Swidler, senior manager of solutions marketing at Po...
The organization responsible for developing security measures for next-generation DVDs said it has plugged a hole that allowed hackers to locate and unlock encryption keys for movies released on HD DVD and Blu-ray discs. The Advanced Access Content System License Administrator has responded to recen...
Microsoft on Tuesday issued fixes for what it called four "critical" security flaws in its software, which it said could let hackers gain remote control of a user's computer. The software giant, which defines a critical flaw as one that allows an Internet worm to replicate without user intervention,...
Grisoft Software, the developer of AVG Internet security products, introduced Tuesday a free product aimed at detecting and removing rootkits. Rootkits, a specific malware type which hides in other applications or in a computer's operating system kernel, allow malicious applications to collect passw...
British UFO enthusiast Gary McKinnon, who hacked into U.S. military computers in 2001 and 2002, lost his extradition appeal Tuesday in London's High Court. McKinnon is accused of hacking into 97 U.S. military and NASA computers in the hopes of finding secret data on UFOs. He was charged in the U.S.
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