On Feb. 5, 2008, GEXA Energy terminated Kim's employment as a database administrator and permanently revoked his access to all GEXA Energy facilities, computer networks, and information technology systems, the report says. Approximately three months later, Kim remotely accessed the GEXA Energy computer network and GEXA Energy Management System (GEMS) database.

Microsoft has helped discover a flaw in the Google Chome Frame plug-in for Internet Explorer users.

The failure of corporate chiefs to make security a priority and a reactive approach to data protection has left many companies vulnerable to attack, especially via emerging technologies such as smart phones and cloud computing, according to a survey of information technologists. published on Tuesday.

Snow Leopard users are once again free to run the Apple operating system on hardware with Atom processors, courtesy of hackers in Russia.

An exploit for Internet Explorer was published online yesterday, showing signs of poor reliability. Symantec confirmed that the exploit affects Internet Explorer 6 and 7. Experts believe a fully functional version of the exploit will be made available in the coming weeks.

Three hackers have been charged by federal indictment over their alleged involvement in infiltrating the security of Comcast.net and subsequently redirecting the visitors of the website to web pages under their control a year back.

A team of unidentified hackers has managed to steal "confidential" global warming data after breaking into the e-mail server of a prominent, British climate-research center and posted them online - showing that climate scientists conspired to overstate that man has caused climate change.

A new form of attack that installs a rootkit directly onto a computer's Bios system would render anti-virus software useless, researchers have warned.

A Dutch internet service provider has identified a worm that installs a backdoor on jailbroken iPhones and makes them part of a botnet.

Герои 3D Max, Maya, Cinema и прочих графический 3D-студий в конце концов перестают удовлетворяться создавая и оживляя созданных персонажей анимацией. Хочется с ними что-то сделать – красивое демо, базовую игру, что угодно, только бы вытащить свои творения за пределы 3D-редактора

The Security Response team has compiled the top security trends of 2009. We pulled data from the Global Intelligence Network and the experiences of the thousands of analysts and security experts at Symantec to come up with the top trends for the year. While none of these trends will be a surprise to anyone even casually following the threat landscape, when compiled and summarized, it is clear that the breadth of security problems in the past year was pretty stunning.

The soon-to-be shipped version 3.6 of the Firefox browser will have a new feature that will make it more stable. It is called Component Directory Lockdown, and it prevents third-party applications (add-ons and plugins) to store their own code into the "components" directory, where most of Firefox's own code is stored.

Penetration testing, once considered a risky practice for the enterprise and even a tool for evil hacking purposes, is becoming more of an accepted mainstream process in the enterprise mainly due to compliance requirements, more automated, user-friendly tools -- and most recently, the imminent arrival of a commercial offering based on the popular open-source Metasploit tool.

T-Mobile U.K. said Wednesday that an employee was to blame for stealing possibly millions of customer records and selling the data to competitors.

BlackBerry and smartphone security in general hasn't garnered much attention or concern over the past few year, at least from a consumer, or user, perspective. Enterprises have been invested in mobile device security since the advent of the PDA.

Hackers broke into the website of Latvia's President Valdis Zatlers on Wednesday, leaving a message urging the head of state to save the recession-afflicted Baltic state, his office said.

Second-hand ATM machines containing sensitive transaction data are easily available for purchase on eBay or even Craiglist, according to an investigation by a US-based security consultant.

The National Security Agency helped Microsoft harden Windows 7 against attacks and is providing similar assistance to Apple, Sun Microsystems and Red Hat too, an agency official said.

Viruses and malware are words not normally linked to video games, that is until you talk to Michael Helander, VP of Sales and Marketing at Lavasoft. His software company has developed a new product, Ad-Aware Game Edition, that's designed to protect online gamers from viruses, a problem that's "increased over 600% in the last year," according to their website.