Defense contractor Northrop Grumman and three universities announced on Tuesday that they would form a research consortium to find and develop solutions to current cybersecurity challenges.

Intel has released the first beta of the software developers kit (SDK) for the Atom platform.

More than five per cent of the sites on the web could cause security risks, with Cameroon's .cm domain the most dangerous, according to the third annual State of the Mal Web report from security giant McAfee, released today.

In Denmark it's legal to make backup copies of your DVDs, but illegal to break the DRM that prevents copying them. This annoyed a guy so much that he decided to turn himself in for ripping his own DVD collection.

As law enforcement agents increase their reliance on Facebook and MySpace to nab suspects, legal watchdogs are demanding that officials disclose exactly how they use social networking sites.

Mozilla updated its nearly-baked Thunderbird 3 Tuesday night, fixing one critical error and addressing three others. The critical bug fix affects the Windows, Mac, and Linux versions of Thunderbird 3 Release Candidate 2. It had caused the previous version to hang on shutdown, consume too much memory, and close all IMAP connections.

OK, so it's technically impossible to beat a game that has no defined ending, but World of Warcraft player "Little Gray" is the first to finish virtually every single thing that the land of Azeroth currently has to offer.

At a media gathering Wednesday, the security vendor released a report outlining security threats enterprises and consumers should be mindful of in 2010. Of these, the security risk faced by everyday Internet users is likely to increase as criminals look to trick people into downloading malware through means such as an innocent-looking URL link or videos and pictures from unknown sources.

Постоянный доступ к всемирной сети является приоритетным из направлений не только в области бизнеса, но и для обычных пользователей. Разворачивание проводной сети связано с некоторыми сложностями и может обернуться большими затратами или потерей времени, поэтому самый простой и эффективный вариант создания сети – воспользоваться услугами провайдеров беспроводной сети.

In another sign of its increasing acceptance as a mainstream business and consumer technology tool, “Twitter” has today been named the most popular word of the year, according to the Global Language Monitor (GLM).

Итак, наконец вскрыли Xbox 360 и запустили сторонний код без подписи.

Webroot Tuesday announced it has extended its cloud-based Web security service, adding a way to filter outbound as well as inbound Web traffic, monitoring for threats in order to detect and block malware such as botnets that have infected computers.

One of the ways Microsoft plans to push Internet Explorer 6 and Internet Explorer 7 users to upgrade to Internet Explorer 8 is convincing them the latest version is much more secure, which it is. Dean Hachamovitch, general manager of Internet Explorer, last week posted a story on the IEBlog about how IE8 managed to block a malicious webpage he was linked to by one of his close friends on Facebook

A new version Metasploit released today includes integrated vulnerability scanning for the popular open source penetration testing tool.

While more companies reported malware infections, denial-of-service attacks, financial fraud and password sniffing in the last year, claimed damages due to the attacks had shrunk, according to the latest survey of security managers and corporate executives conducted by the Computer Security Institute.

The head of the Climatic Research Unit (CRU) at the University of East Anglia has temporarily stepped down while an investigation is carried out into hacked emails and documents from the organisation’s servers.

Microsoft is denying reports that its latest monthly security update is causing users to experience serious system problems.

A group of restaurants is demanding millions of dollars in damages from two companies accused of selling point-of-sale terminals that exposed customer data to criminal hackers.

Miscreants have developed a ransomware package that blocks internet access in a bid to force infected users into paying up by sending a text message to a premium rate SMS number, lining the pocket of cybercrooks in the process.

Проблема случайного касания тачпада ноутбука при печати касается многих пользователей ноутбуков. Т.е. вы, набирая текст, касаетесь изголовьем большого пальца тачпада и курсор перепрыгивает в другое место, где вы продолжаете набор

Как безболезненно перейти с Windows XP на недавно вышедшую Windows 7, и при этом не потерять свои документы и настройки? Изучив материалы на сайте Microsoft, я пришел к выводу, что они мне не подходят. Инструкция содержит столько пунктов и так пестрит вводимыми вручную командами, что браться за осуществление переноса данных по ней я не стал — мне показалось это слишком сложным, слишком английским, слишком непонятным