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
The security vendor charges Microsoft's Vista illegally integrates its technology, Dell joins the AMD bandwagon and Microsoft talks about its newfound "agility."
Piracy in China tempers the enormous business opportunities there.
Rivals Symantec and McAfee band together to bust eBay software pirates.
- By The Associated Press
- 05/17/2006
A British court recommended Wednesday that a man be extradited to the United
States to face charges in the largest attack on U.S. government computer networks -- including Army, Air Force, Navy and NASA systems.
- By The Associated Press
- 05/10/2006
A man pleaded guilty to charges of launching an attack that hit tens of thousands of computers, including some that belonged to the Department of Defense, and crippled a hospital's network.
- By The Associated Press
- 05/08/2006
A federal court has ordered a man who was at the center of the nation's first "spyware" case to give up $4 million in ill-gotten gains.
- By The Associated Press
- 05/08/2006
One spammer has managed to identify e-mail addresses on a "do-not-spam" list touted as secure, taking advantage of an obvious flaw with such lists and prompting critics to wonder what took so long.
- By The Associated Press
- 05/04/2006
The Bush administration is defending new federal rules making it easier for police and the FBI to wiretap Internet phone calls.
- By The Associated Press
- 05/04/2006
Benjamin Daines was browsing the Web when he clicked on a series of links that promised pictures of an unreleased update to his computer's operating system.
- By The Associated Press
- 05/01/2006
Secure non-Microsoft server apps with your own SCW extensions.
- By Greg Shields
- 05/01/2006
Find out how your favorite tools fared in more than 40 categories.
Joern takes a look at Microsoft's new Live security services.
- By Joern Wettern
- 05/01/2006
Super-fast performance, robust toolset and better security options make Microsoft's latest database management system a must for most shops.
- By Joanne Cummings
- 05/01/2006
Microsoft will re-release one of its April security bulletins on Tuesday to fix a flaw in the patch that caused applications to crash on systems running either an older Hewlett-Packard utility or certain NVIDIA drivers.
- By Scott Bekker
- 04/21/2006
A 25-year-old man has been charged with hacking into the University of Southern California's computer system and accessing information about student applicants.
- By The Associated Press
- 04/21/2006
Westchester County on Thursday enacted a law that is designed to limit identity theft by forcing local businesses to install basic security measures for any wireless network that stores customers' credit card numbers or other financial information.
- By The Associated Press
- 04/20/2006
An Oregon man will pay nearly $84,000 in fines and consumer restitution for using e-mail to market bogus anti-spyware software called Spyware Cleaner, Washington state officials said in announcing a settlement.
- By The Associated Press
- 04/19/2006
A Briton accused of mounting the largest ever successful hack of U.S. government computer networks could face prosecution under U.S. anti-terror laws, despite assurances he will not, his lawyer told an extradition hearing Wednesday.
- By The Associated Press
- 04/12/2006
Claims tighter security with new encryption chip
- By The Associated Press
- 04/09/2006