They're the scourge of the Internet right now and the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation says they've also raked in more than US$150 million for scammers. Security experts call them rogue antivirus programs. Full Story »
An Internet privacy watchdog has blasted Google chief executive Eric Schmidt for his comments on Internet privacy, saying his remarks suggest Google misunderstands basic lessons about why privacy is important. Full Story »
TUSTIN, Calif. - Peregrine Pharmaceuticals Inc. said Thursday it cut its 2010 fiscal second-quarter loss nearly in half as revenue from manufacturing services and government payments for the antivirus drug candidate bavituximab increased sharply. Full Story »
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SAN FRANCISCO (AFP) - Facebook began calling on users to get a better grip on their online privacy by dictating who sees what in profiles at the world's leading social networking service. Full Story »
WASHINGTON - The tip came from another country's law enforcement officials: Eight major banks in the U.S. were being targeted by cybercriminals operating there. Full Story »
The 21 year-old college student charged with hacking former Alaska Governor Sarah Palin's Yahoo e-mail account was using a compromised computer that was secretly logging and reporting information without his knowledge, his lawyers say. Full Story »
Today was Microsoft's final Patch Tuesday of 2009. Microsoft released a total of six new security bulletins, the most urgent one affecting a zero-day flaw in Internet Explorer for which exploit code already exists. Full Story »
What do phishing, instant messaging malware, DDoS attacks and 419 scams have in common? According to Cisco Systems, they're all has-been cybercrimes that were supplanted by slicker, more menacing forms of cybercrime over the past year. Full Story »
Nearly a week after an unidentified hacker posted attack code that exploits a flaw in Adobe's Illustrator software, the company says it will fix the issue by Jan. 8. Full Story »
WASHINGTON - A new online tool from Yahoo Inc. will let users see and edit the personal profiles that the Internet company compiles about them to target Internet advertising. Full Story »
The U.S. Federal Trade Commission plans to take a hard look at how it enforces consumer privacy standards in the coming months, with new rules for online companies possibly on the way, the agency's chairman said Monday. Full Story »
The US$10 webcam that Anna Giesman bought her daughter at Office Depot over the Thanksgiving weekend sounds like one of those deals that's too good to be true. And for her, it was. Full Story »
The U.S. government and private businesses need to overhaul the way they look at cybersecurity, with the government offering businesses new incentives to fix security problems, the Internet Security Alliance said. Full Story »
Adobe Systems' security response team is scrambling to fix a newly disclosed bug in its Illustrator software, even as it readies another security patch for next week. Full Story »
A new site dedicated to improving online privacy launched today with a tool for filing a complaint with the Federal Trade Commission, along with information about your privacy rights - or lack thereof. Full Story »
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SAN FRANCISCO (AFP) - Reports of counterfeit software, much of it tainted with computer viruses, have doubled during the past two years, according to Microsoft. Full Story »
On Thursday night, ALWIL Software, the creators of the Avast! antivirus program, released a bad update the misidentified many programs as malware. Full Story »
The move by India's top business schools to take their CAT entrance test online turned embarrassing after malware-infected computers left a number of students unable to take the test. Full Story »
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