The only good solution to malware is a complete OS reinstall, says Microsoft.
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
Patches are released for flaws in Veritas backup daemons, Florida banks are phished, the new Sun Grid is attacked by bots, and the Feds lose computers.
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
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
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
According to a recent study, user education may indeed be the only solution.
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
Is Driver Verifier preventing your system from booting? Here's how to shut it off.
Plus Sendmail vulnerability, Visa warning, security issues down under and more.
Researchers warn of possible RFID viruses, but Russ says phooey. Also: invisible Web sites, search engines and subpoenas, and Ernst & Young loses a laptop full of sensitive info on IBM workers.
Take this Microsoft survey to assess your organization's security.
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
Why you shouldn't be worrying about many of the recently reported Microsoft vulnerabilities. Really.
Findings show that the popular VoIP service is full of security problems -- some of which are intentional.
Security fixes you obtain from the official source or a third party should still undergo the same scrutiny as any software you'd roll out to the troops.
- By Mike Gunderloy
- 04/01/2006
WinXP SP2 stops unauthorized code, like malware, from running off system memory.
An online file storing feature for users, though secure, could get Google stuck in other people's legal quagmires.