Security News

InformationWeek - Vista let 639 threats per thousand computers through, compared with 586 for Windows 2000, 478 for Windows 2003, and 1,021 for Windows XP, security vendor PC Tools said.

InformationWeek - Google has slashed the cost of its security service by 40% and added an optional protection feature for public Wi-Fi users in its continued efforts to lure businesses to Google Apps.

Cybercriminals collect a treasure trove of data from Web surfers whose computers are infected with Trojans. That's all-too-common news these days, but a recent case shows that the problem is getting worse. Finjan Inc., which makes secure Web gateway products, discovered a server in Malaysia being used by hackers to store more than 1.4 gigabytes of stolen data. What surprised the Finjan researchers was that the data was stolen from businesses as well as individuals -- and it was amassed in just three weeks.

SAN FRANCISCO - Computer attacks typically don't inflict physical pain on their victims.

Mozilla warned Wednesday that a malicious program inserted adware code into a Firefox plugin that has been downloaded...

InformationWeek - McAfee Avert Labs says more than half a million of the adware programs disguised as media files have been detected in less than a week.

Adware pushers have found a new way to trick you into downloading their annoying products: fake MP3 files.

WabiSabiLabi, the company best known for building an online marketplace for security flaws, is getting into the hardware...

On Tuesday, Yahoo and McAfee announced a partnership to make the Yahoo Search experience safer. Launched in beta, the new SearchScan feature, powered by McAfee SiteAdvisor technology, offers always-on alerts for sites with security concerns involving spyware, adware and other malicious software. McAfee SiteAdvisor tests and rates nearly every trafficked site on the Internet.

The collaboration covers Web site security issues, such as identifying sites associated with adware, malware, spyware, phishing, and spam.

SAN FRANCISCO (AFP) - US federal court officials have warned that hackers are emailing phony subpoenas embedded with malicious software to high-ranking executives to steal valuable corporate information.

A new service will filter Web content for small to midsized businesses, blocking viruses and other malware at the source.

WASHINGTON (AFP) - This week, the world will mark an anniversary that has changed the face -- and other anatomical regions -- of email inboxes everywhere: the first known spam email was sent 30 years ago on Saturday.

A federal judge has ordered convicted spammer Eddie Davidson to just under two years in prison for sending out a large volume...

SAN FRANCISCO - Even criminal hackers want to protect their intellectual property, and they've come up with a method akin to copyrighting — with an appropriate dash of Internet thuggery thrown in.

With cybercrime now a global phenomenon, perhaps it will take a global police organization to keep it in check.

The growing use of encryption software-- like Microsoft's own BitLocker-- by cyber criminals has led Microsoft to develop a...

DENVER - A Colorado man accused of sending hundreds of thousands of spam e-mails has been sentenced to 21 months in prison after pleading guilty to tax evasion and falsifying e-mail headers.

Botnet fighters have another tool in their arsenal, thanks to Microsoft.

There will be a new contest at the Defcon hacker conference this August, one that antivirus vendors already hate.

Trust and reputation systems are a great way to reduce spam, but Google avoids talk of an ongoing flood of malware-infected porn on Google Groups pages.

Spammers are using an automated method to create bogus pages on Google's Blogger service, again highlighting the diminishing...

Using off-the-shelf tools, exploits for software vulnerabilities can be crafted in as little as 30 seconds after studying the...

SANTA ANA, California (Reuters) - A computer hacker testified on Wednesday that a News Corp (NWSa.N) unit hired him to develop pirating software, but denied using it to penetrate the security system of a rival satellite television service.

Skype users who have been getting strange error messages from Microsoft's security products over the past week can breathe...

San Francisco - Skype users who have been getting strange error messages from Microsoft's security products over the past week can breathe easy now. It was all a mistake.

LONDON (Reuters) - Cyber-criminals are behind a dramatic rise in stealthy programs called "trojans" that infect computers to sell rogue software, send unwanted email or steal personal data, a study has found.

A Linux computer embedded in an ExpressCard could speed up your Windows machine by offloading the tedious and cycle-churning tasks of protecting your system from viruses, malware, and intrusion.

It would seem logical to think most Internet users are annoyed by software that causes pop-up advertisements to appear on...