Microsoft is shipping a free downloadable tool to let users create a private folder where they can store sensitive files.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- 07/06/2006
Britain's top law enforcement official on Thursday approved the extradition to the United States of an alleged computer hacker accused of damaging U.S. military systems.
- By The Associated Press
- 07/06/2006
An FBI computer consultant gained access to the secret passwords of Director Robert Mueller and others using free software found on the Internet, the latest embarrassment in the bureau's long struggle to modernize its computers.
- By The Associated Press
- 07/06/2006
Altiris, Inc., last week announced the Altiris Endpoint Security Solution, a package meant to help IT set a balance between security and business productivity.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- 07/05/2006
Data storage provider EMC Corp. saw its stock dive Friday after announcing a $2.1 billion deal for RSA Security Inc. that represented a hefty premium for the computer authentication provider.
- By The Associated Press
- 07/03/2006
Specops Password Policy creates and enforces multiple password policies within Active Directory.
- By Danielle Ruest and Nelson Ruest
- 07/01/2006
Security is the focus of the latest Exchange 12 beta.
Joern demystifies common misconceptions about SSL and complex passwords.
- By Joern Wettern
- 07/01/2006
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