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Dutch police arrested three men for creating a botnet of more than 100,000 compromised PCs, authorities in the Netherlands said Friday. They allege the botnet…
PlayStation Portable users looking to modify their gaming system so it can run software that has not been approved by Sony Corp. may find themselves running…
As reflected in the previous PandaLabs quarterly report, diverse cyber attacks against Internet DNS servers occurred during the first quarter of this year.…
Microsoft Corp. launched a trust-building initiative on Thursday designed to show its commitment and progress to date in making its frequently attacked Windows…
Two 20-year-olds from the UK have been sentenced to prison terms for their part in a virus-writing gang. Jordan Bradley, 22, and Andrew Harvey, 23, were…
Two British hackers who infected thousands of computers with a virus in a transatlantic plot were jailed yesterday. Andrew Harvey, 24, and Jordan Bradley, 21,…
The US’ Federal Trade Commission has gone after what it claims is a spyware and adware operation that invaded users’ machines and served up bogus search pages.…
Microsoft has just outlined plans for a range of new corporate security services and products. CEO Steve Ballmer and security VP Mike Nash jetted in to Germany…
The European Commission said today that it appointed professor Neil Barrett, a British academic specializing in computer science and cybercrime, to oversee…
NEW YORK (Reuters) - America Online, the online division of Time Warner Inc., on Wednesday said it plans to step up protections against the illegal gathering…
Frederiksen to remain in custody before trial. A federal prosecutor says Noel Miller's boyfriend, who's accused of possessing child porn, molested a girl when…
Mozilla Foundation overlooked critical patches on its SpreadFirefox site. As a result the site has been temporarily taken offline and site visitors are being…
Users of Kaspersky anti-virus were warned this week of a potentially serious security vulnerability. The bug - unearthed by security researcher Alex Wheeler -…
Internet fraud is on everyone's mind these days. Anyone with an e-mail account most likely has received dozens of e-mails offering huge monetary rewards for…
The Internet has connected the world like no other technology has ever been able to do. But the network has a dark side of viruses and bugs, hackers and…
LONDON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Sept. 30, 2005--More than half of European companies polled in a survey on global network risk admitted that they have suffered…
Kevin J. O’Connor, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, has announced that CAROL SZOKE, 62, of Nazareth, Pennsylvania, waived indictment and…
Ministry of Justice director-general Dr. Aaron Abramovich has appointed a team to set up a legal authority for information technology. The team includes two…
Today, almost all businesses rely on email for part of their communications needs. Yet a staggering proportion of email messages are destined not to…
Microsoft on Tuesday released the latest aggregated group of updates, Service Pack 2, for its Office 2003 suite. Included are significant security…
Online criminal activity of nearly every variety surged in the first half of 2005, fueled in large part by an increase in software security flaws and in the…
Waukesha - A Sussex man who was snared last year by investigators combing records of companies in Belarus suspected of laundering profits from child…
The U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation plans to meet with small- and medium-sized defense contractors in Silicon Valley to increase awareness about security…
Phishing is hooking more victims as the e-mail fraud attacks become more sophisticated and prevalent. According to Gartner, the number of phishing e-mail…
If spyware and key-logging software weren't a big enough threat to privacy, researchers have figured out a way to eavesdrop on your computer simply by…
EMC is upgrading its RepliStor asynchronous replication software to bring it in line with Microsoft’s Data Protection Manager (DPM) Replistor 6.1 will work,…
Virus writers have come up with a way to make their malicious software jump from a mobile phone to a PC. Security researchers have reported the first sightings…
British book publishers are considering legal action against Google over the search engine company’s plans to create a virtual library by digitising millions…
Security researchers have discovered a new vulnerability with Firefox that might allow hackers to seize control of Unix or Linux machines running vulnerable…
Despite contrary opinions from some legal experts, the Authors Guild on Wednesday said it was confident that it would win its copyright-infringement lawsuit…