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At the tail end of what could be called this summer's "Worm Week," antivirus and security experts watched carefully as the spreading SoBig.F variant flooded in-boxes around the Internet with millions of virus-laden e-mails. Antivirus researchers said the worm, which was set to activate a barrage of ...
Lawyers representing a California woman who was targeted by a Recording Industry Association of America subpoena have filed a motion in U.S. federal court challenging the subpoena as an unconstitutional invasion of privacy. The woman, whose motion was filed under the name Jane Doe, is an Internet su...
The spread of the latest SoBig computer worm variant, called SoBig.F, now is being called the fastest outbreak ever. The worm marks the continuation of a recent onslaught of attacks that included previous worms Nachi and Blaster. Security experts said SoBig.F has spread rapidly across North America,...
In responding to concerns voiced by U.S. Senator Norm Coleman, the Recording Industry Association of America has detailed its strategy for pursuing and prosecuting "egregious" infringers of copyright law. The recording industry group -- which announced in June its plans to seek out and possibly sue ...
A Verizon customer in the United States has decided to singlehandedly fight the recording industry's crusade to pry from Internet service providers the names of Web surfers who share music and video files online. The customer, whose identity has not been revealed, appears to be the first consumer to...
Security software developer Zone Labs announced IMsecure Pro, a security package that the company is calling the first comprehensive instant messaging security system for the most popular messaging services, such as AOL Instant Messenger, MSN Messenger and Yahoo Messenger. IMsecure Pro is designed t...
As some antivirus vendors raised their alert rating on a Windows worm that has infected thousands of home and corporate computers, the spreading code continued to take over machines that might be used in an attack on Microsoft. The worm -- referred to as MS Blast, Blaster and LovSan -- does not requ...
The SoBig.E worm, released two months ago on the Internet, continues to spread among unprotected computers. Some Internet security analysts fear that this latest variant of the SoBig family -- much like future variants of the new Microsoft Blaster worm that began to proliferate early this week -- wi...
A widely anticipated threat materialized this week as a worm that exploits a Microsoft Windows flaw began infecting some of the millions of vulnerable machines around the world. Experts said the relatively simple "Blaster" worm -- also referred to as "LoveSan" -- was spreading at a steady pace Monda...
Privacy advocates and foes of the Recording Industry Association of America's campaign to subpoena the names of file-sharing computer users from universities and service providers have won a small battle in the war over online music trading. A U.S. District Court has invalidated the RIAA's subpoenas...
Consumer information held by Acxiom, one of the largest collectors and processors of such data, was reportedly accessed and downloaded recently by an intruder who broke into the company's massive database. Law enforcement officials, who notified Acxiom of the breach, have arrested a suspect in Ohio....
New coded exploits that take advantage of a widespread Microsoft Windows vulnerability have been posted online. By most reports, malicious scans to expose vulnerable systems are running rampant a week after government warnings regarding the flaw. Security experts said the scans for the vulnerability...
A denial-of-service attack that took down Microsoft's Web site two days after the U.S. Department of Homeland Security warned of a widespread Windows vulnerability is being investigated by the Redmond, Washington-based software company and law enforcement officials. Microsoft has some clues as to th...
An e-mail worm posing as a system administrator message was rapidly spreading over the Internet as workers returned to the office Monday and unwittingly contributed to its proliferation by opening attachments. The worm, dubbed "MiMail," indicates to receivers that their e-mail account will soon expi...
After receiving nearly 200 subpoenas to turn over information about users of its Internet service, communications giant SBC has filed suit against the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA), calling the subpoenas a misapplication of copyright law. In a U.S. District Court complaint, filed ...
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