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Mr. & Mrs. Smith DVD Ships with Rootkit-like DRM

Sony BMG is not the only company to dabble in using copy-protection technology that resembles rootkits. According to anti-virus vendor F-Secure, based in Helsinki, Finland,...

A Toe in Legit Waters: The Latest Shift in Spammer Technique

Theres no lower form of life than the mass spammer. Theyve tried every abuse and malformation of e-mail standards to get their vile product...

Trusted Computing Group Closes In on Storage Protection

The Trusted Computing Group is one step closer to encrypting and protecting peripheral storage devices such as hard drives, flash memory drives, digital tape...

Gates Pushes ID Management for Secure Computing

SAN JOSE, Calif.—Microsoft chairman Bill Gates, speaking on Feb. 14 at the RSA Conference here, acknowledged that weaknesses in the "trust ecosystem" could put...

Microsoft Patches Critical WMP, Windows Flaws

Microsoft released fixes for seven vulnerabilities in its Windows products as part of its monthly security update, including an anticipated patch addressing remote exploitable...

Windows Defender Beta 2 Wipes Malware in Real Time

SAN JOSE, Calif.—Microsofts Windows Defender anti-spyware application has hit the Beta 2 milestone with a major user interface facelift and complete integration with Windows...

State Department Launches Internet Task Force

In light of the recent controversy over several U.S. companies compliance with Chinese censorship policies, the U.S. Department of State is launching a task...

Securitys Heaviest Hitters

In my five years covering security for eWEEK, I was privileged to meet and get to know some of the brightest and most dynamic...

Bits Never Feel Insecure

When doctors want to know where somethings going inside a patient, they tag it with some kind of tracer that lets them track that...

Software Securitys Rating Game

Exactly one year after the introduction of the Common Vulnerability Scoring System as a vendor-neutral standard to get around the confusion of measuring the...