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Experts: Cyber-Criminals Still Running Amok

BOSTON—Gathered in the subterranean confines of a decommissioned vault in the basement of the Boston Stock Exchange, a panel of IT security experts told...

43 Flaws Fixed in Mac OS X, QuickTime

Apple Computers security update train rumbled into the station late May 11 with fixes for a whopping 43 Mac OS X and QuickTime vulnerabilities. The...

The Dark Side of the Search Engine Business

A new study by McAfees SiteAdvisor Web ratings finds that sponsored results from some of the biggest names in the search engine business contain...

The Evils that Lurk in Idle Web Surf

While summer is almost upon us, theres never a worry over good or bad weather when it comes to clients heading out for some...

White House Defends NSA Data Collection

The White House on May 11 defended a newly revealed domestic intelligence program in which the National Security Agency has been collecting the domestic...

MS Researchers Tackle Automated Malware Classification

Researchers from Microsofts anti-malware engineering team are working on an automated way to sort through the thousands of malware families and variants attacking Windows...

Privacy Groups Decry NSA Data Collection

Privacy groups responded with outrage to a May 11 news report that the National Security Agency is collecting records of billions of phone calls...

Adobe Plugs Dreamweaver SQL Injection Flaw

Web tools vendor Adobe Systems has acknowledged that code generated by its Macromedia Dreamweaver suite could allow SQL injection attacks. According to an advisory from...

Management: How Much Web Surfing at Work is Too Much?

Is surfing the Web at work the same as reading the paper or chatting on the phone? A New York City judge says it...

Audit Clears MS Phishing Filter as Privacy Risk

A third-party audit of the new phishing filter built into the Internet Explorer 7 browser and the MSN Toolbar has given the technology a...