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Verizon's U.S. District Court appeal over the subpoena powers granted to the Recording Industry Association of America, to be considered Tuesday, calls into question the music industry group's tactics and highlights privacy concerns. The RIAA has pushed forward with its strategy of pursuing individu...
If you're one of the remaining 260 defendants targeted in lawsuits by the Recording Industry Association of America for music piracy on the Internet, don't count on being bailed out of your jam by P2P United. The group, which represents major file-sharing sites on the Net, has pledged to pay the $2,...
A day before the two-year anniversary of the September 11 terrorist attacks, a series of phone calls threatening the presence of a bomb at San Francisco's Moscone Center forced the evacuation of thousands from Oracle and Seybold trade shows. Authorities, on guard with the approach of September 11, r...
Biometric security devices -- which authenticate a person's identity on the basis of physical characteristics, such as a fingerprint -- have been available in one form or another for 30 years. But biometrics technology for computer security might never achieve widespread use because of the predomina...
Microsoft's disclosure of three new security holes in Windows came just moments before its senior security strategist, Phil Reitinger, told lawmakers on the House Government Reform technology subcommittee about the company's efforts to help consumers defend themselves against viruses and other Inter...
A 22-year-old computer hacker credited with breaking into more than a dozen networks owned by some of the largest companies in the world is facing federal charges of computer intrusion and unlawful use of passwords. Known as the "homeless hacker" for his laptop-only wanderings and as the "helpful ha...
Authorities in Romania are investigating another suspected writer of a Blaster variant, according to Bucharest-based BitDefender, which reported similarities between the 24-year-old suspect and Jeffrey Lee Parson, the Minnesota teenager accused of authoring a different Blaster variant. The U.S. arre...
With nearly 10 million Americans reporting identity theft that cost banks and other businesses nearly $48 billion last year, the Federal Trade Commission said the problem is worse than previously estimated. The latest FTC survey on identity theft, which revealed more than 27 million victims of this ...
SoBig.F, Blaster, Nachi and MiMail -- the most frequently occurring viruses in August -- helped make last month the worst in the history of computer security, according to antivirus firm Sophos. The business-focused antivirus company, in its monthly virus ranking, pegged the newest viruses as the to...
Analysts credit advance warning about the Blaster worm, in addition to Microsoft's clever rewriting of standard Internet-connection protocols, as the weapons used in defeating a denial-of-service attack against the software company's Windows help Web site on August 16th. The Blaster worm, which infe...
Federal officials reportedly have closed in on an 18-year-old man believed to be the author of a variant of the Blaster worm, which affected nearly half a million computers earlier this month. An announcement of the suspect's arrest was expected in Seattle, Washington, near the headquarters of Micro...
This week, security software developer Symantec announced Norton Antivirus 2004, the newest version of the company's antivirus software. While this product will provide consumers with new kinds of protection against some emerging nonvirus threats -- such as spyware and keystroke-logging programs -- ...
As law enforcement officials continue their search for the origin of the SoBig.F computer worm that clogged servers and networks last week, security experts are watching for the next variant and worrying that antivirus defenses might be flawed. While the outbreak might have both home and corporate c...
A New Zealand man who bore the brunt of the recent backlash against spam has said he is leaving the business that fills e-mail boxes with solicitations and suspect messages. After an article in a local newspaper identified him as a major spammer, Shane Atkinson said he was inundated with threatening...
Antivirus giant Symantec is touting features like centralized management and wireless Web updates in its new AntiVirus for Handhelds line that will be available in consumer and corporate versions beginning in September. Symantec joins other antivirus and security companies, including Network Associa...
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