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Looking to thwart piracy and the unlicensed, unprofitable consumption of its content, Sony is reportedly spiking its music CDs with digital rights management (DRM) software that is similar to malicious code used by computer attackers, including virus writers and spammers. The code, exposed recently ...
Trend Micro is picking up on one of the latest security trends with its new home office solution -- spyware protection. PC-cillin Internet Security 2006 is designed to combat unpredictable malicious threats like phishing, spyware, spam, hackers, viruses, and other threats. The company said its solut...
America Online may have preferred a sweet treat this Halloween, but what it got instead was a nasty trick as a potentially destructive worm began targeting users of its AIM instant messaging service. Dubbed W32/Sdbot-ADD by Facetime Security Labs, the worm installs a rootkit-like backdoor on any com...
Major college campuses aren't the only place where notebook PCs are being boosted -- or even the most likely locale for a theft. Experts say laptop PCs are often stolen at work -- by other professionals. And once the technology has been stolen, it most likely is gone forever, at least as far as its...
Can state laws -- like the one signed in late September by Gov. Arnold Schwarzeneggar (R-Calif.) -- stop phishing scams? Probably not, experts tell TechNewsWorld. In fact, public policy experts say, confidence trickers are already willfully breaking a number of laws, and fear of punishment by author...
The Anti-Spyware Coalition (ASC) yesterday announced several breakthroughs in the fight against its nemesis. The alliance of technology companies and public interest groups has decided on a definition for the unwanted and often dangerous spyware infesting computers, and has created a risk modeling d...
One might not associate sophisticated crimes such as mass spamming, dedicated denial of service attacks, or identity theft with a mindless zombie, but the computer variety of the monsters in compromised PC form are doing all of that and more. In response to the threat, Microsoft, the Federal Trade C...
Universities and digital freedom organizations are filing appeals to the Federal Communications Commission's call for phone-system wiretapping on the Internet, complaining of the expense of compliance and negative effect on innovation. A requirement that universities, carriers and other Internet ser...
The next time you print a summary of your favorite James Bond film, you should consider that there might be more than one spy on the page. That's because printer manufacturers and the U.S. Secret Service have been quietly collaborating to track documents -- a worrisome revelation. An announcement by...
Clandestine codes used to track the output of some color laser printers have been cracked by a research team led by the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF). According to the organization, the codes are part of a deal cut by the U.S. Secret Service with some printer makers to help curb the counterfe...
There's a new word in the Web vocabulary: splogs. Internet users may as well get used to it because, just like spam and spim, splogging is making its way into Web-based communication. Splogs are the equivalent of Web log spam, unsolicited posts to a blog that have nothing to do with the subject matt...
Skype's popularity rose to a whole new level when eBay purchased the VoIP provider last month. Now, the free Internet telephony service has become the victim of a spoof campaign designed to infect users with an IRCbot Trojan. Messaging security and management services provider MessageLabs yesterday ...
Clandestine codes used to track the output of some color laser printers have been cracked by a research team led by the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF). According to the organization, the codes are part of a deal cut by the U.S. Secret Service with some printer makers to help curb the counterfe...
The latest emerging IT security threat to the enterprise -- viruses conveyed by instant messaging (IM) technology -- is increasingly taking up the time of security experts, who are implementing an array of solutions to staunch the flow of malware. Research shows that among 2,200 identified IM and P2...
Although stiffer jail sentences and legislation have cut into the United States' share of junk e-mail spam sent in the past year, the land of the free is still the number one spam sender in the world, accounting for more than a quarter of the unsolicited nuisance, according to a report issued by sof...
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