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If Microsoft really wanted to make a splash with the upcoming international rollout of its Live OneCare antivirus, anti-spyware, firewall and PC tune-up product, it might have picked a bad day to do it. The new version of Live OneCare will ship on Jan. 30, which happens to be the same day Microsoft ...
Google unwittingly disclosed sensitive login and password information of more than a dozen users, opening up a can of worms for the search giant by exposing a flaw in its anti-phishing tool. The security snafu was discovered in Google's anti-phishing extension for the Firefox Web browser, according ...
Bad news outweighs the good in the new "Threat Report 2007" issued Monday by Sophos, the global IT security company. The good news, which might provide significant hope, is that computer users are finally refraining from opening attachments connected to unsolicited e-mail. Because of that, according...
"Storm Worm" is the name that seems to have stuck for a massive malware attack that spread Thursday and Friday by teasing e-mail recipients to open infected messages supposedly about European wind storms. The attackers use of the subject line "230 dead as storm batters Europe" was an effective way t...
News Corp.'s popular social networking site MySpace.com will soon offer parents a glimpse of what their teenagers are doing online. The site, which is one of a group of social networking sites used regularly by more than half of American teens, has recently come under fire for inadequate security co...
Security threats paint a constantly evolving landscape, and there is no end in sight in terms of threats that keep appearing. Enterprises have survived through extraordinary cycles of security threats, including the 2003 "summer of worms"; the 2004 proliferation of DDoS-based cyber extortion of onli...
Making New Year predictions about technology requires a very polished crystal ball. Eric Openshaw, principal and leader of Deloitte Consulting's technology, media, and telecommunications practice in the U.S., offers some sobering insights into the world of consumer technology, providing details abou...
In another move toward digital movie distribution, Hollywood studios on Thursday announced they are backing a new technology that will make more movie titles available for consumers to download from the Internet and burn to DVD. Sonic Solutions' industry-approved system, a licensing and certificatio...
Missing its self-proclaimed deadline to implement its audio anti-piracy software won't immediately hurt YouTube's goodwill with the entertainment industry. As New Year's Eve approached last weekend, YouTube, which was purchased in October by Google for US$1.65 billion in stock, acknowledged it would...
Social networking is meeting an unfriendly visitor -- social engineering. Social engineering tactics -- scams that depend on user-interaction to execute an attack against them -- rose dramatically in 2006. Over the past 12 months, Internet users got a little savvier to fake e-greetings and breaking ...
Professional cyberthieves and organized crime rings are looking to cash in on stolen identities and are releasing an increasing amount of malware in the process. McAfee predicts the following disturbing trends: a rise in the number of password-stealing Web sites that use fake sign-in pages for popul...
A hacker who calls himself Muslix64 has Hollywood and music studios on edge this New Year's Eve weekend as they wait to see whether their latest digital rights management software standard will work as designed. Muslix64 has posted on the Internet the tools and title keys he said he has used to decr...
Beware of e-mails with the subject line "Happy New Year!" VeriSign is warning that the message may appear to come from a well-wisher but actually contains a worm that could infect computers and use them for malicious purposes. The Happy New Year worm is being heavily spammed at a rate of five e-mail...
The pending January release of Windows Vista raises questions about the security benefits of using one operating system over another. Microsoft claims that Vista's new architecture hardens it against vulnerabilities from viruses, spyware and adware attacks. However, users should be wary of putting t...
For all the talk about safety and security as a foundational promise of Windows Vista, Microsoft's new operating system, released to business users in late November, has already been found to contain several potentially serious vulnerabilities. A programming flaw, thought to be the first identified ...
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