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Reflecting on Positions Past

Five years into the new millennium, the questions of right and wrong in cyberspace are coming into clearer focus. This year, eWEEKs Editorial Board...

Workaround, Protections Emerge for WMF Exploit

Anti-virus and intrusion protection firms are reacting quickly to a new zero-day exploit for Windows, and a workaround has been devised by an independent...

Anti-Virus Protection for WMF Flaw Still Inconsistent

Days after the revelation of a flaw in Windows handling of WMF graphics files, dozens of exploits are being spread from thousands of adware...

Trojan Emits Bogus, Risqué Google AdSense Ads

A Trojan horse program is churning out bogus Google ads promoting products Google eschews—gambling, cheap Viagra, girlie photos and adult dating. The ads, being targeted...

Analysts Fret as Adware Makers Leverage WMF Flaw

Exploits of the WMF (Windows Metafile Format) flaw continued on Thursday as advertising networks took advantage of the vulnerability to spread their "products." Several security...

No One-Stop Shopping to Stop Database Pilferages

Database security breaches have been coming fast and furious as the year draws to a close.Last week, role-playing game company White Wolf Publishing Inc....

How the Cookie Crumbles

The National Security Agency, whose NSA initials are typically preceded by "super secret" or a similar cool-sounding phrase, is known as the home for...

AOL: The Donald Trumps All as Spam Bait

Youre hired! If you were dreaming about convincing real estate mogul Donald Trump to bring you on as his next apprentice, you needed to look...

Another WMF (Windows Major Foul-Up)

Microsoft really has improved the security of its code over the last few years. The fact that every now and then a bug like...

Backup Tapes Missing from Marriott Timeshare Business

Marriott Vacation Club International is missing backup tapes with personal information for 206,000 customers, owners and associates, the company disclosed on Wednesday.A spokesman for...