A portable hard drive that may contain the personal information of up to 48,000 veterans may have been stolen, the Department of Veterans Affairs and a lawmaker said Friday.
- By The Associated Press
- 02/05/2007
Police cannot secretly search suspects' computer hard drives over the Internet, a German court ruled Monday.
- By The Associated Press
- 02/05/2007
A spammer whom authorities say e-mailed more than 9 billion unwanted advertisements faces a hefty fine.
- By The Associated Press
- 02/05/2007
A portable hard drive that may contain the personal information of up to 48,000 veterans may have been stolen.
- By The Associated Press
- 02/02/2007
Skip the Group Policy administration -- here's a free and simple way to set a unique policy for multiple computers.
- By Jeffery Hicks
- 02/01/2007
Early users like Vista's new interface and security improvements, but most are taking a "wait and see" approach.
- By Joanne Cummings
- 02/01/2007
IT pros have reservations, but ethical hackers are becoming a fact of life.
It's a Web-savvy world out there, so getting the most out of any solution will require vigilance on your part.
- By Bill Heldman
- 02/01/2007
Microsoft has signed up more than 100 partners who say they will support its Network Access Protection, or NAP, technology for protecting the network from edge devices such as roaming laptops through quarantine and remediation, the company said Thursday.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- 02/01/2007
A look at Vista's security enhancements and just how much they can help your network.
- By Joern Wettern
- 02/01/2007
Microsoft said Thursday it is shipping Intelligent Applications Gateway (IAG) 2007, a combination of its Internet Security and Acceleration (ISA) Server with Whale Communication's virtual private networking software.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- 02/01/2007
U.S. regulators said Tuesday that Sony BMG Music Entertainment agreed to reimburse consumers up to $150 for damage to their computers from CDs with hidden anti-piracy software.
- By The Associated Press
- 01/30/2007
A state computer containing names, Social Security numbers and bank account information for 70,000 Vermont residents was hacked into by a remote user sometime before early December, the state said Monday.
- By The Associated Press
- 01/30/2007
TJX Cos. took a month to make public a computer security breach because it was trying to prevent further damage, the company's chairman said in an online message and full-page advertisement in Boston newspapers.
- By The Associated Press
- 01/30/2007
Don't look now, but word surfaced last week of still another Word zero-day attack. That brings the tally of unpatched Word zero-day attacks up to four. Microsoft's Patch Tuesday on Jan. 9 was conspicuously bereft of patches for any of then-extant Word exploits, and -- with a fourth one in the wild, and with proof-of-concept code possibly circulating -- it looks like Microsoft Corp.'s next Patch Tuesday can't come fast enough.
- By Stephen Swoyer
- 01/29/2007
Bankers association reports that hackers have made fraudulent transactions using hacked TJX customer data.
- By The Associated Press
- 01/24/2007
Lockbox with backup tapes containing data on 130,000 Aetna members taken in break-in at insurer's outsourced billing services firm.
- By The Associated Press
- 01/24/2007
Computer records containing medical claim information, health data and Social Security numbers of 28,279 health insurance customers of Nationwide Mutual Insurance Co. were stolen from the office of a vendor in Massachusetts, the company said.
- By The Associated Press
- 01/24/2007
Banks and credit card companies scrambled to tell their customers in the United States and overseas to watch for fraudulent activity after TJX Cos., parent of retailers Marshalls and T.J. Maxx, disclosed thefts of customer data from its computer system.
- By The Associated Press
- 01/23/2007
The popular online hangout MySpace.com has sued a Colorado man once accused of being one of the world's top three spammers, saying the man gained access to MySpace profiles using stolen passwords and used the information to send spam bulletins.
- By The Associated Press
- 01/23/2007