The Bush administration's cybersecurity chief is being paid $577,000 under a two-year agreement with the university that employs him and also does extensive business with the federal office he manages.
- By The Associated Press
- 06/28/2006
An alliance of businesses, colleges and federal crime fighters will combine their expertise at a new research center that will study the problems of identity theft and fraud.
- By The Associated Press
- 06/28/2006
Police in Britain and Finland have arrested three men suspected of conspiring to spread computer viruses through spamming, Metropolitan Police said.
- By The Associated Press
- 06/27/2006
As more people turn to Web applications for everyday tasks like e-mail, friendship and payments, cyber criminals are following them in search of bank account details and other valuable data, security researchers said.
- By The Associated Press
- 06/26/2006
Say goodbye soon to those pop-up ads from Claria Corp.'s oft-vilified ad-targeting technology. On July 1, Claria will stop running ads generated by its pioneering but highly criticized "adware" programs that monitor where people surf.
- By The Associated Press
- 06/26/2006
A hacker broke into the Agriculture Department's computer system and may have obtained names, Social Security identification numbers and photos of 26,000 Washington-area employees and contractors, the department said.
- By The Associated Press
- 06/22/2006
Ohio University said Tuesday it has suspended two information technology supervisors over recent breaches by hackers who may have stolen 173,000 Social Security numbers from school computers.
- By The Associated Press
- 06/21/2006
As new disclosures mount about government surveillance programs, computer science researchers hope to wade into the fray by enabling data mining that also protects individual privacy.
- By The Associated Press
- 06/19/2006
A laptop containing the Social Security numbers and other personal data of 13,000 District of Columbia employees and retirees has been stolen, officials said.
- By The Associated Press
- 06/19/2006
The Redmond software giant released 12 patches -- eight of which are deemed "critical" -- as part of its regularly scheduled monthly security update.
Yahoo Inc. said Tuesday it has contained a malicious program aimed at the millions of people who use its e-mail service, which ranks as the world's largest.
- By The Associated Press
- 06/13/2006
A hacker stole a file containing the names and Social Security numbers of 1,500 people working for the Energy Department's nuclear weapons agency. </p><p>
- By The Associated Press
- 06/11/2006
AOL is releasing free software to automatically check whether you have the latest security protection on your Windows computer.
- By The Associated Press
- 06/07/2006
Microsoft Corp. said Monday that its Internet security software will be included with Qwest's high-speed Internet service.
- By The Associated Press
- 06/06/2006
Hundreds of people waving picket signs and skull-and-crossbones pirate flags demonstrated in Stockholm on Saturday against a police crackdown on a popular file-sharing Web site that had millions of users worldwide.
- By The Associated Press
- 06/05/2006
One of the world's most notorious spammers has settled lawsuits with the state of Texas and Microsoft Corp. that cost him at least $1 million, took away most of his assets and forced him to stop sending the nuisance e-mails.
- By The Associated Press
- 06/05/2006
Microsoft's Shared Computer Toolkit can help ease the pain of configuring security for a shared computer.
- By Joern Wettern
- 06/01/2006
Archive your security logs in one place with this command-line tool.
Provide your users with the right common knowledge so they can practice common sense.
Microsoft Corp. announces release of software that aims to better protect people who use Windows from Internet attacks.
- By The Associated Press
- 05/31/2006