A Princeton University computer science professor added new fuel Wednesday to claims that electronic voting machines used across much of the country are vulnerable to hacking that could alter vote totals or disable machines.
- By The Associated Press
- 09/14/2006
Two Moroccan men have been sentenced to prison terms for helping write the Zotob computer virus that attacked major U.S. networks last year, a court official said Wednesday.
- By The Associated Press
- 09/13/2006
One of the last remaining consumer class-action antitrust lawsuits filed against Microsoft Corp. in a state court is set to go to trial in November, and Bill Gates is on the witness list.
- By The Associated Press
- 09/13/2006
The owner of one of the nation's largest Internet software piracy Web sites has been sentenced to more than seven years in prison.
- By The Associated Press
- 09/12/2006
Here’s how Ethereal can be used to capture the contents of a batch start-up script.
Attorneys for a man accused of fraud say he was charged at the behest of presidential adviser Karl Rove in retaliation for a flood of spam e-mails sent to a campaign Web site. A federal prosecutor says the claim is "absurd."
- By The Associated Press
- 09/12/2006
European Union officials warned Microsoft not to shut out rivals in the security software market.
- By The Associated Press
- 09/12/2006
As expected, Microsoft released three patches today to fix one critical Office vulnerability as well as two Windows flaws.
On the fence regarding whether vulnerability researchers should be compensated for their findings. Plus, "friendly hacking" between Netscape and Digg users; 74,000 .eu domain names frozen.
Microsoft Corp. today issued a security advisory telling customers it is "investigating" reports of new zero-day code aimed at Microsoft Word 2000.
A San Diego man was so upset that the University of Southern California did not admit him as a student that he hacked into the school's application system and stole other would-be students' personal information, he admitted in court.
- By The Associated Press
- 09/06/2006
Hewlett-Packard Co. Chairwoman Patricia Dunn is under scrutiny from business and ethics experts after she oversaw an invasive and possibly illegal effort to snoop into the home phone calls of fellow HP board members.
- By The Associated Press
- 09/06/2006
Hide the Security tab from your domain users.
The Virginia Court of Appeals on Tuesday upheld the nation's first felony conviction of illegal spamming.
- By The Associated Press
- 09/05/2006
We don't see Chief Renamer on the Microsoft org chart, but that person has got to be on there somewhere....
- By Mike Gunderloy
- 09/01/2006
Troubleshooting FTP -- where to look.
FBI consultant gets busted, Microsoft Private Folder pulled and U.S. OMD department issues security incident reporting rules.
A Florida man who made millions of dollars selling illegal copies of computer programs was sentenced Friday to six years in prison in one of the nation's largest software piracy cases.
- By The Associated Press
- 08/25/2006
IBM Corp. said Wednesday it will spend $1.3 billion in cash to acquire Internet Security Systems Inc., which performs network monitoring and analysis services for companies.
- By The Associated Press
- 08/23/2006
Microsoft has filed three lawsuits against "cybersquatters" who hope to profit from typo-misdirection-based pay-per-click advertising.
- By The Associated Press
- 08/23/2006