Government regulation could hamper efforts to get ahead of innovative bad guys, argued a panel of network executive in a Congressional hearing this week.
- By William Jackson
- 03/08/2012
Google's Chrome Web browser fell to multiple exploits on Wednesday at CanSecWest security conference's Pwn2Own contest.
Plus, LulzSec crumbles from the inside, readers respond to proposed changes to Windows 8 password procedure.
Adobe released a patch late Tuesday that targets two vulnerabilities in its Flash Player.
Based on information given from the hacker group LulzSec's leader, the FBI has arrested three members of the hacker group LulzSec and charged two others.
- By Kevin McCaney
- 03/05/2012
Popular search engines continue to direct users to Web sites that serve up malware, researchers say, largely because of techniques that can fool search rankings.
- By William Jackson
- 02/29/2012
Microsoft announced yesterday that it has partnered with secured and managed mobile enterprise company Good Technology to bring encrypted e-mail services to Windows Phone 7.5.
President Obama's administration has presented legislation to protect online privacy that includes a consumer bill of rights and a standardized Do-Not-Track feature for browsers.
- By William Jackson
- 02/24/2012
According to Microsoft, Google circumnavigates Internet Explorer's P3P Privacy Protection feature to track cookies of users.
Both Indiana and Ohio will be the first states to link its in-state academic research networks to the 100-gigabits/sec cross-country network being built by Internet2 and the Energy Department.
- By William Jackson
- 02/21/2012
According to respondents to Arbor Networks' Worldwide Infrastructure Security Report, DDoS attacks are targeting IPv6 networks for the first time since the Internet protocol started implementation last year.
Adobe on Wednesday released a security update that fixed seven Flash Player vulnerabilities, including a zero-day cross-site scripting (XSS) flaw found by Google researchers.
Microsoft's February Security Update included an antivirus and security software "fix" that told users that Google.com was infected with the Blackhole Exploit Kit.
Cisco Systems wants the European Commission to review its approval of Microsoft's acquisition of Skype.
Anonymous last week took credit for attacks on state servers in Alabama and Mexican government sites.
- By Kevin McCaney
- 02/13/2012
An industry-produced survey suggested that Web site attacks motivated by political considerations may be on the rise.
- By Kathleen Hickey
- 02/10/2012
A U.S. program that aims to assure greater identity trust in online transactions has received some research and development funding.
- By William Jackson
- 02/03/2012
Fifteen companies, including Microsoft, Yahoo, Google and Facebook, have come together to form DMARC.org.
- By Kevin McCaney
- 01/30/2012
Data Privacy Day starts on January 28, but the parties behind it might not be its best advocates, nor even take the concept seriously.
The global launch of IPv6 has been set by the Internet Society for June 6.
- By William Jackson
- 01/20/2012