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Microsoft announced the early release of a patch that will eliminate an increasingly dangerous Windows flaw from users' PCs -- a full week before the company's scheduled monthly "Patch Tuesday" cycle. The software giant's move to fix the vulnerability on Tuesday was provoked by an increasing number ...
It always pays to be suspicious when unsolicited e-mails arrive, and on Friday new evidence underscored the point: A malicious e-mail purportedly from Microsoft actually serves up a worm dubbed "Grum." The e-mail, which claims to come from admin@microsoft.com and reads "Internet Explorer 7 Downloads...
A coalition of major technology users and vendors organized by the SANS Institute announced Monday what it called a first-of-its-kind testing and certification program for software programmers. The new examinations are designed to enable reliable measurements of technical proficiency and expertise i...
A new security vulnerability in Windows could allow cybercriminals to hijack a user's machine and divert Web traffic through a malicious proxy server, Microsoft announced on Monday. Hackers can send e-mail messages linked to a malicious payload hosted on a remote Internet server, which could trick r...
Data theft has become the raison d'etre for malware on the Internet, according to security vendor Symantec. As in previous years, the vendor reported upticks in data thefts, malware and phishing scams. What is different about this year, said Alfred Huger, vice president of engineering at Symantec Se...
A pair of hackers has threatened to engage in a self-described "attention-seeking ploy" next month by exposing security holes in social networking Web site MySpace. The duo, who call themselves "Mondo Armando" and "Mustachio," say they will launch attacks against the popular Web site each day in the...
I'm spending some time thinking about missed and anticipated opportunities this week. In looking at Windows Server, I've become convinced that it is the wrong product for the Unix displacement market. In fact, in my head, it really always has been -- I just don't talk about servers much, so it doesn...
When Google announced Wednesday that it will adopt new privacy measures designed to make it harder to connect searches with the individuals who request them, it promoted the move as a big step. Whereas last year the search engine giant went head-to-head with the U.S. Department of Justice over just ...
As Web access becomes more streamlined and efficient, the Internet -- free-floating and nonrestrictive by nature -- may gradually render the traditional office obsolete. Bye-bye cubicles and water coolers. The big mama of Internet connectivity, Google enables searches of the entire globe. It joins m...
Internet search giant Google announced Wednesday it will take steps to improve the way it handles data obtained as millions of consumers search for products and information online. Within the next year, the company said, Google will change its privacy policy and begin deleting personally identifiab...
If you want to avoid being a victim of information highwaymen on the Web, you may want to pay attention to the domain names of the sites you surf to. According to a study released Monday by security software maker McAfee, the Web is no different from the physical world when it comes to safety: there...
Symantec's latest security suite, Norton 360, gives less-experienced consumers a fresh approach to hardening their computer security with a from-the-ground-up rebuild of its Norton Internet Security Suite into a product that offers anti-intrusion, PC optimization and backup modules. Norton 360 takes...
Seagate Technology has been working on delivering a laptop hard drive with built-in hardware encryption for a couple of years, but now the technology is finally hitting the streets, the company announced Monday. Seagate's new Momentus 5400 FDE.2 uses a government-grade security protocol to encrypt a...
If one were to conduct a survey of technology publications over the past decade or so, it's a good bet there would be at least one instance in each of those years in which someone declared that "this is the year of biometrics." Full of promise but long constrained by a diverse set of obstacles, biom...
Microsoft plans to skip its monthly round of security patches scheduled for release next Tuesday, despite at least five zero-day vulnerabilities waiting to be fixed. Redmond is working on patches for known vulnerabilities in Internet Explorer 7, Office 2007's Publisher 2007 and Windows Vista OS, but...
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