E-commerce and online banking sites will be required to undergo extensive verification checks.
- By The Associated Press
- 12/25/2006
Spammers' focus has shifted from open relays to infected "zombie" computers.
- By The Associated Press
- 12/25/2006
Spanish police arrests 6 suspects for allegedly hacking financial data.
- By The Associated Press
- 12/21/2006
A computer administrator upset over the possibility of losing his job planted an electronic "bomb" in the systems of one of the nation's largest prescription drug management companies, prosecutors said Tuesday.
- By The Associated Press
- 12/20/2006
Sony BMG Music Entertainment will pay $1.5 million and kick in thousands more in customer refunds to settle lawsuits brought by California and Texas over music CDs that installed a hidden anti-piracy program on consumers' computers.
- By The Associated Press
- 12/20/2006
Systems administrator alleged to have planted logic bomb that could have wiped out critical patient data.
- By The Associated Press
- 12/19/2006
A computer worm is attacking some business PCs through a flaw in antivirus software by Symantec Corp., a security company warned Friday.
- By The Associated Press
- 12/18/2006
Universities have become attractive targets for hackers who are taking advantage of the openness of the schools' networks, their decentralized security and the personal information they keep on millions of young adults.
- By The Associated Press
- 12/18/2006
UCLA breach latest among several universities to have student records hacked. Breach went undetected for more than a year, affects about 40,000 students.
- By The Associated Press
- 12/17/2006
Worm hits some systems using Norton Antivirus, even though company issued patch back in May.
- By The Associated Press
- 12/15/2006
A former UBS PaineWebber systems administrator was sentenced Wednesday to eight years and one month in prison for attempting to profit by detonating a "logic bomb" program that prosecutors said caused millions of dollars in damage to the brokerage's computer network in 2002.
- By The Associated Press
- 12/14/2006
Microsoft Corp. today announced a bevy of patches -- seven, in all -- that address vulnerabilities in its Visual Studio IDE and Windows operating environments.
- By Stephen Swoyer
- 12/12/2006
Payless ShoeSource, Burlington Coat Factory pay up for using unlicensed software.
- By The Associated Press
- 12/12/2006
Microsoft Corp. took great pains to improve security in its newly released computer operating system, Windows Vista, redesigning it to reduce users' exposure to destructive programs from the Internet. Outside researchers commend the retooled approach -- yet they also say the changes won't make online life much safer than it is now.
- By The Associated Press
- 12/11/2006
As Windows Vista becomes more secure against known threats, it's what hackers and cybercriminals devise in the next generation of attacks that keeps Microsoft on its toes.
- By The Associated Press
- 12/10/2006
Long-awaited update to Microsoft messaging platform goes RTM; security suite also gets rolling.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- 12/08/2006
Microsoft, Hewlett-Packard and other companies are preparing to push for data-privacy legislation next year.
- By The Associated Press
- 12/08/2006
Microsoft issued an Advance Bulletin today stating it will release six fixes for various flaws next Tuesday as part of its regularly scheduled "Patch Tuesday" update.
Embattled former and current HP execs expected to settle state lawsuit over pretexting scandal
- By The Associated Press
- 12/07/2006
A newly disclosed flaw in Microsoft Word could let malicious hackers take control of victims' computers by sending them e-mail with a Word document attached.
- By The Associated Press
- 12/06/2006