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Chicken Swimsuit Model Hides Nasty Worm

Anti-virus vendors have raised the threat level on a double-barreled MSN Messenger worm that lures users with the promise of sexy image files. The worm,...

ISPs Need To Keep Moving Against Spam

Back in June of 2004 I argued that ISPs need to start rate-limiting use of their outbound SMTP servers. I was right, although for...

High-Risk Flaws Patched in Eudora

Qualcomm has pushed out an update for its Eudora e-mail client to fix multiple security flaws that put users at risk of computer hijacking.The...

Microsoft Preps 13 Security Advisories

Microsofts February Patch Day will be a busy one for IT administrators.The software giant on Thursday announced plans to release 13 security advisories on...

First Was Phishing, Next Is Pharming

You probably think youre pretty safe from phishing attacks, right? After all, how difficult is it to ignore a "security warning" from a bank...

MSN to Support Electronic ID Card Technology

Microsoft Corp.s Belgian subsidiary has launched an electronic ID card pilot program and is looking to integrate authentication for e-ID cards into future versions...

Linspire Chief Defies DRM Wave with New Music Service

Challenging the trend toward digital rights management, former MP3.com chief and Linspire CEO Michael Robertson will re-enter the music world next week with MP3tunes,...

Exploit Released for Combined RealPlayer, IE Flaws

Security researchers have found a way to combine two unrelated—and unpatched—vulnerabilities in RealPlayer and Internet Explorer to launch malicious hacker attacks on PCs.According to...

Hacker Mudge Returns to BBN

Security industry veteran and itinerant hacker Peiter Zatko decided this week to rejoin Internet pioneer BBN Technologies Inc. as a research scientist.Better known in...

PHP Consortium Tackles Third-Party Application Security

Worried that the credibility of the PHP scripting language is being hurt by high-profile security flaws in third-party applications, an international group of coding...