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Riding on the back of the second annual E-mail Authentication Summit in Chicago, Microsoft on Tuesday claimed rapid adoption of its Sender ID framework for e-mail authentication to fight spam. It also launched improved postmaster services for consumers. There has been a threefold increase in Sender ...
Microsoft's latest series of patches is brewing trouble for some customers. While the MS06-015 patch was designed to fix a flaw in Windows Explorer, it is also causing plenty of problems for people who use HP printers, scanners and digital cameras. Those who use Sunbelt Software's Kerio Personal Fir...
The number of malicious programs is on the rise, according to McAfee's Avert Labs, with exponential increases in rootkits and Windows-based stealth components. In the first quarter of 2006, the number of rootkits increased by 700 percent over the year-ago period, according to McAfee. Meanwhile, the ...
Research from two separate messaging consultancies indicates that e-mail and instant messaging attacks continued apace in the month of March, but the number of viruses detected surprisingly declined. San Carlos, Calif.-based messaging management firm Postini processed more than 23 billion messages a...
IT security and information risk management has been high on the agenda of financial institutions for the past decade. It's little wonder due to the regulatory and organizational repercussions of a wholesale breach. Historically executives have concentrated on threats from "beyond the firewall," pro...
Microsoft's Patch Tuesday issued a slew of fixes in its April release, most of which focused on browser flaws. The software giant's monthly security update issued five patches in all, including three "critical," one "moderate" and one "important" patch. Ten vulnerabilities in all were addressed in t...
MySpace.com has taken several steps to secure its popular service against online predators trolling the Internet for new victims -- a danger that critics say the company has done little, up until now, to forestall. The company has appointed Microsoft veteran and former Justice Department trial atto...
IBM has reportedly come up with a hardware-secured processor design that incorporates encryption onto semiconductor chips. The technology could be used to lock down PCs and mobile devices. Big Blue made no official announcement, but company executives indicated the technology, dubbed "SecureBlue," w...
The typical picture of a hacker has often been one of an introverted, misunderstood teen with a great deal of repressed anger. Launching an attack and disabling thousands of computers somehow seems to compensate for those feelings. Increasingly, however, while the hacker profile remains much the sam...
New York attorney general Eliot Spitzer has filed suit in the New York Supreme Court against Direct Revenue, an Internet pop-up advertising company, for surreptitiously installing spyware on unsuspecting users' computers via free games or software. Adware accompanying the free downloads tracked Web ...
A new flaw in Microsoft's Internet Explorer has come to light, but the software giant does not expect to issue a patch for it until April 11. However, at least two outside firms have issued patches that may be used in the interim. The Microsoft vulnerability exploits the way Internet Explorer handle...
Some 25 million households in the nation have a wireless network, and that number is growing. So, too, is the number of home networks without a lick of security on them, according to a report released last week by ABI Research in Oyster Bay, N.Y. That's because, for most consumers, activating the se...
Microsoft has confirmed that a new vulnerability exists in its Internet Explorer Web browser. The flaw could allow an attacker to execute arbitrary code on a user's system. The vulnerability affects IE 6.0 and Microsoft Windows XP Service Pack 2. Secunia has also confirmed the vulnerability exists i...
Concern that a dearth of external e-mail accounts at the FBI will effect the agency's ability to fight crime and terrorism is "overblown," according to Coleen Rowley. Rowley is a former principal legal advisor with the bureau known for blowing the whistle on oversights it made prior to the World Tra...
Search engine users concerned about the government's new interest in search term data were relieved by a Federal judge's ruling on Friday. Judge James Ware of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California, said Google must provide the government with 50,000 Web addresses in its sea...
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