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
Microsoft Corp.'s MSN search engine stopped working for about four hours Thursday.
- By The Associated Press
- 04/06/2006
Using IPsec policies for server isolation is easier than you think.
- By Joern Wettern
- 04/01/2006
Passwords are often the weakest part of a security infrastructure. Here are nine ways to make them one of the strongest.
- By Roger A. Grimes
- 04/01/2006
Harden your computers' defenses with the tips in these Microsoft studies.
- By Greg Shields
- 04/01/2006
This week security researchers announced that exploit code taking advantage of an unpatched IE flaw has been published on the Web.
A corporate-backed watchdog group that monitors software for deceptive and abusive practices on Wednesday named a widely used file-sharing program and three other applications as violators of its guidelines.
- By The Associated Press
- 03/22/2006
A pioneer of software that delivers pop-up ads based on Web sites that Internet users browse said Tuesday it will exit that business by June following persistent criticism from online publishers, consumer groups and privacy advocates.
- By The Associated Press
- 03/21/2006
Security researchers are warning about a new variety of unusually powerful denial of service attacks.
- By The Associated Press
- 03/16/2006
New Internet attacks targeting computers that manage global Internet traffic has potential to overwhelm popular Web sites and disrupt e-mails
- By The Associated Press
- 03/15/2006
The FBI plans to spend up to $500 million building the final piece of its delayed, troubled technology upgrade, yet risks a repeat of earlier missteps that led to excessive costs, according to a government report released Monday.
- By The Associated Press
- 03/13/2006
The world industrial-standards association has rejected China's controversial wireless encryption standard for global use, news reports said Monday, dealing a blow to Beijing's effort to promote its own standards for computers and telecoms.
- By The Associated Press
- 03/13/2006
From the business wires this week: a network security solution for Windows systems, Exchange protection, Microsoft's Origami and Onfolio announcements, more.
NetChk Protect combines the functionality of Shavlik's patching and anti-spyware tools in a single console.
Taking an isolationist approach is sometimes good -- especially for securing your domains and servers.
- By Joern Wettern
- 03/01/2006
Many programs block spyware, but few know how to get rid of it. Redmond readers offer some clever ways to banish these nasties.
A Florida man was sentenced Wednesday to eight years in prison in a computer theft case involving more than 1 billion records that Acxiom Corp., a data-management company, collected in its work for large corporations.
- By The Associated Press
- 02/23/2006