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Within six months, Philips Electronics expects to release a new interoperable digital rights management (DRM) system. That will be good news for music consumers currently befuddled by a hodgepodge of schemes promoted by the likes of Apple, Microsoft, Napster and RealNetworks. "At the moment various ...
Claiming that industry-accepted, association-endorsed CD burning technology in use by several hardware and software companies is infringing on its own 1997 patent, Optima Technology has sued rival Roxio in an attempt to enforce its patent protections. The suit, filed in federal court in Orange Count...
It may have been a long time coming, but Microsoft's newest Service Pack 2 for Windows XP represents several significant changes to the software. Many of the updates and new features, which analysts have said could amount to an entirely different operating system altogether, center on security. The ...
Customers of large big banks, beware. You might be surfing the Web with a bull's-eye on your browser. That's because Internet scam artists have targeted the customers of large financial institutions for their nefarious efforts. The technique used by the grifters is a cyberspace version of the old ba...
An alleged sender of unsolicited e-mail whose success earned him the title of "spam king" has been arrested in Virginia in what is being called the first felony prosecution of a spammer in the United States. Virginia officials, who announced the arrest with AOL, MCI and UUNet, charged that Jeremy Ja...
At the same time that a judge's call for evidence sent SCO Group's stock price lower, the Lindon, Utah-based company was taking a hit on its Web site, against which attackers launched a denial-of-service attack that also knocked some of the company's internal operations offline. SCO, hit by a simila...
Microsoft's new monthly patching policy is getting put to the test as several vulnerabilities, such as another Internet Explorer hole disclosed this week, present attackers with opportunity. The latest IE hole -- announced by Secunia, the same Danish security company that disclosed a separate, criti...
A scheme to counter the Balkanization of digital rights management on the Internet was unveiled Wednesday by a standards group whose members include ContentGuard, Macrovision, Microsoft, Nippon Telegraph and Telephone, Universal Music Group and VeriSign. The group -- called the Content Reference For...
A U.S. House of Representatives subcommittee confirmed this week the concerns of security experts and Washington insiders by grading most federal agencies with a D or F in terms of IT security. There was improvement from last year's federal computer-security progress report as the Nuclear Regulatory...
Concerns about computer viruses and worms are spreading beyond the PC arena as embedded software and systems vulnerable to attack are introducing risk to several unique technology sectors, including automatic teller machines (ATMs), emergency response systems and even automobiles. ATM maker Diebold ...
Smut distributed through peer-to-peer networks isn't inherently more dangerous than titillating matter found elsewhere on the Internet. That was one of several findings by the research arm of the U.S. Congress, the General Accounting Office (GAO), in a letter responding to written inquiries by the S...
U.S. Cyber Security Division director Amit Yoran, warmly embraced by the IT security community as head of the nation's cyber security when appointed in September, warned this week that more sophisticated and potentially disruptive cyber attacks could be looming. Speaking with U.S. Department of Home...
The Recording Industry Association of America pushed forward with its campaign to sue illegal music file-traders this week, piling on another 41 suits in the third wave of legal action aimed at those who share music files over peer-to-peer networks. The industry group that represents the world's maj...
Some folks find flattery in imitation, but spam fighters are finding it in denial-of-service attacks. The attacks are being generated by a nasty but undistinguished virus called Mimail-L, which, as part of its mischief, is commandeering its victims' computers to deluge with e-mail eight prominent an...
Chris Klaus, the founder and chief technology officer of Internet Security Systems, was recently appointed to cochair the National Common Criteria Task Force. The task force will examine ways to improve "common criteria," a set of standards developed by a coalition of nations to help ensure that sof...
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