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
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 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
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
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