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PayPal E-Mail Leak Brings Phishing Worries

Electronic payment provider PayPal Inc. on Monday confirmed that a security breach at a partner site left an unknown number of e-mail addresses exposed...

Ingrian Software Encrypts PeopleSoft Apps Data

Ingrian Networks Inc. has released a version of its encryption appliance software that supports PeopleSoft Inc. applications. Ingrian DataSecure is now capable of encrypting data...

Researcher Pokes Holes in Microsoft Patch

Microsoft Corp.s first software patch for 2005 does not adequately fix the critical vulnerability it was intended to address, according to a warning issued...

Worm Masquerades as CNN Headline Alerts

A new e-mail worm masquerading as news headlines from CNN has the ability to log keystrokes and open backdoors for new threats, anti-virus vendor...

Sun Fixes Critical Java Plug-In Flaws

A pair of vulnerabilities in the Sun Java Plug-In technology could put users at risk of system bypass attacks, Sun Microsystems Inc. confirmed Thursday.The...

Latest MSN Messenger Worm Can Hijack System Info

A new Internet worm is squirming through Microsoft Corp.s popular MSN Messenger chat network, anti-virus vendors warned on Thursday. The latest threat comes follows Octobers...

Can Comment Spam Be Stopped?

I didnt need to learn about comment spam by reading eWEEK.com. Ive gotten waves of it in my own blogs comments. You may have...

Evil Twin Haunts Wi-Fi Users

An IT security expert, an academic and the U.K. governments cybercrime unit will give Londoners an introduction to the security dangers of wireless networking...

Microsoft Downplays Office Encryption Weakness

A security researcher has issued an alert for a "serious security flaw" in the way document encryption is implemented in Microsofts Word and Excel...

Honeypot Project: Unpatched Linux Systems Last Longer than Windows

The Honeypot Project has added fuel to the debate over which is more secure—Linux or Windows—with findings that unpatched Linux systems can be on...