The biggest threat to the open internet is not Chinese government hackers or greedy anti-net-neutrality ISPs, it’s Michael McConnell, the former director of national intelligence.

How will we ever get a leg up on hackers who are infecting computers worldwide? Microsoft's security chief laid out several suggestions Tuesday, including a possible Internet usage tax to pay for the inspection and quarantine of machines. Today most hacked PCs run Microsoft's Windows operating system, and the company has invested millions in trying to fight the problem.

Software giant Microsoft Corp has won a U.S. court approval to deactivate a global network of computers that the company accused of spreading spam and harmful computer codes, the Wall Street Journal said.

Tomorrow vulnerability specialists Secunia will announce that this year it will release free patch management software to all in a bid to cut web attack vectors.

Open source software has comparable security, faster bug fixing, and fewer potential backdoors than commercial software, according to a study on software application vulnerabilities by security firm VeraCode.

Four California men were charged on Monday with using sophisticated computer programs to fraudulently obtain more than a million tickets to concerts and sporting events and reselling them for a profit estimated at $29 million.

Microsoft is looking into a new flaw that could let hackers run code if they can convince users to hit the 'F1' key in response to a pop-up window.

Enrique Salem, President and Chief Executive Officer of California-based Symantec Corporation, warns against a cold war of an unusual kind.

Here’s some troubling news for my fellow World of Warcraft players. It seems that hackers, account thieves, and other miscreants have now embraced man-in-the-middle (MITM) attacks to further their evil ways. Blizzard says it’s not a widespread issue, and it’s rather difficult to pull off, but it’s something y’all should be aware of.

Qualys has announced they'll be offering free scans to help keep websites clean. By using baseline tests, Qualys can tell when a website deviates from normal operating conditions. The scans are automated, so there's no need to manually kick it off every day, and Qualysguard Malware Detection will also identify the vulnerable code so the developer can quickly remove it.

In late 2008, a Pennsylvania teenager playing SOCOM U.S. Navy Seals got kicked out of a tournament for using a cheat mod. So he took revenge by crashing the PlayStation web site for 11 days.

Data security vendor, Imperva, likens the 'industrialisation of hacking' to the way the industrial revolution of the 19th century revolutionised factories.

A prominent security researcher has released an exploit that uses a new technique to defeat ALSR + DEP on Microsoft’s Windows operating system.

Диспетчер System Center Configuration Manager 2007 является усовершенствованным вариантом Systems Management Server и призван обеспечивать в динамично изменяющихся средах возможность по управлению и полному контролю над всей IT-инфраструктурой

Скринкасты сейчас в моде. С одной стороны, лучше один раз увидеть, чем сто раз услышать или прочитать, с другой стороны, постоянно снижающиеся цены на трафик и почти безразмерное пространство на хостингах, — все это делает скринкасты доступным средством продемонстрировать что либо

The Department of Defense granted military personnel access to Facebook, Twitter, Google Apps and other user-generated applications in a Feb. 26 memorandum. The move followed a review that began last August after the U.S. Marines and U.S. Army released contrasting policies for social network site use. The DOD clearly is trying to strike a balance between national security and acceptable social communication and collaboration

The cyber criminals who hacked into Google’s systems may have attacked over 100 other companies, according to new information from security consultancy Isec partners.

Microsoft has several other botnets in its crosshairs, and believes it can use the same legal tactic against them that it deployed last week to strike at the Waledac botnet's command-and-control centers.

International hotel group Wyndham Hotels and Resorts (WHR) has suffered yet another serious data breach after hackers broke into its computer systems, stealing customer names and payment card information.

Fraudsters stole the identity of a top Midland cop to bombard people with offers of porn and Viagra on social network site Twitter.

Fraudsters stole the identity of a top Midland cop to bombard people with offers of porn and Viagra on social network site Twitter.

Affinity Multimedia Design, the company which designed www.newbritainct.gov (the website for New Britain City), said that a virus attacked the site after infiltrating PCs at the main city hall.

An internet criminal who helped run a "Facebook for fraudsters" has been sentenced in London to four years and eight months in prison.

Waledac -- the spamming botnet formerly known as Storm -- was downed yesterday in a sneak attack by a team from Microsoft, Shadowserver, the University of Washington, Symantec, and a group of researchers from Germany and Austria who had first infiltrated the botnet last year.

Microsoft has warned Windows users to be on their guard against a piece of rogue antivirus software passing itself off as Microsoft Security Essentials.

Today Intel UK had their Twitter account hacked by a Phishing scam that is making the rounds on Twitter at the moment.

China's Baidu says in legal papers that that an obvious scammer was able to con Register.com support staff into handing over the keys to its kingdom, resulting in millions of dollars of lost revenue.

Existing threats such as phishing and document format vulnerabilities have continued to expand, even as users improve security, according to a new IBM report. The X-Force report reveals three main threats that demonstrate how in 2009 attackers increasingly targeted people using the Internet for monetary gain or data theft.

The dangers of security breaches has once again been highlighted after a critical server at the Valdosta State University in Georgia was hacked, compromising highly sensitive personal information of thousands of students and staff.

A Wisconsin teenager convicted of using Facebook to blackmail classmates into sex was sentenced to 15 years in prison, according to an Associated Press report.

В Windows 7 есть несколько скрытых тем, которые очень просто открываются. Все дело в том, что устанавливая определенный языковой пакет, вы получаете тему для своей страны. В русской версии она называется "Россия". Но ведь есть множество стран, для которых созданы свои темы! Именно их мы сейчас откроем.

Скайп, бесспорно, рулит. Если раньше нам нужно было часами отвисать в текстовых чатах, набивая килобайты информации, то теперь, благодаря распространению безлимитного инета вплоть до российской глубинки, даже самые удаленные от столицы интернетчики могут познать радость голосового общения.

Каждый, кто работает в IT — странный. Признайте это: мы, технари, все с причудами — и в характере, и в подходе к работе. Уровень странности — лишь вопрос частного мнения, толкования и контекста.

The U.S. government, if confronted in a cyber war today, would not come out on top, a former U.S. director of national intelligence said Tuesday. "If the nation went to war today, in a cyber war, we would lose," Mike McConnell told a U.S. Senate committee. "We're the most vulnerable. We're the most connected. We have the most to lose."

Malware on smartphones is just the first in a series of new security threats for mobile networks ushered in by the embrace of internet technologies, according to mobile phone encryption firms.

Researchers claim to have found a critical vulnerability in Windows that jeopardises all Windows operating systems from 2000 onwards.

The NSW Government has claimed a website housing its transport blueprint was hit with two days of "IT attacks" that breached security and exposed confidential documents.

Adobe yesterday patched a critical vulnerability in the Windows utility used to download the company's two most popular products, Adobe Reader and Flash Player.

HSBC is providing a security system to its internet banking customers in an attempt to fend off malware attacks and fraudulent phishing web sites.

Параллельно с новыми ОС Win2k8R2 и Win7 корпорация Microsoft анонсировала ряд решений, направленных на усиление безопасности сетей и серверов. Вместо ставших уже привычными имен и технологий, на IT-сцене появились совершенно новые названия