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
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