RSS could aid worm attacks
A researcher has claimed that increased support for RSS (Really Simple Syndication) in browsers could lead to a marked increase in botnet worm attacks.
A researcher has claimed that increased support for RSS (Really Simple Syndication) in browsers could lead to a marked increase in botnet worm attacks.
A Trojan horse program has been discovered that hooks into Sony's controversial DRM copy protection software to hide itself on any PC it infects.
Phoenix Technologies has announced a new product designed to tag and identify Windows PCs using a BIOS-protected encryption key.
The Voice over IP Security Alliance (VOIPSA) has published a list of security problems that could derail IP telephony's expansion.
How quaint computer security was in the old days. As recently as two or three years ago, security was seen as a dull backwater.
The teenager arrested on suspicion of writing and distributing the Zotob Windows 2000 worm may have authored more than 20 other viruses, it has emerged.
Intel researchers have demonstrated a new hardware system designed to rapidly and automatically quarantine PCs infected with worms of viruses.
Sysadmins are taking a big chunk of the blame for the latest worm attacks on Windows -- said to have already infected 250,000 machines.
Security vendor, Fortinet, has been ordered to suspend sales in America after the US International Trade Commission made a final ruling against it in its year-old patent infringement dispute with Trend Micro.
A flaw has been discovered on eBay's website that would have allowed fraudsters to successfully redirect the sign-on process to a phishing site.
The man who almost single-handedly invented desktop encryption, Phil Zimmermann, is to demonstrate a new telephony-oriented encryption program at this week's Black Hat security event in Las Vegas.
Spanish authorities are reported to have arrested 310 people as part of an international investigation into one of the Internet's most active "419" or "Nigerian e-mail" fraud rings.
AOL is the global network most infected with "zombie" PCs, according to a new study.
A number of the most promoted security risks are nothing more than a load of hype, Gartner has said in an unexpected outbreak of sober assessment.
F5 Networks has agreed to pay Watchfire an undisclosed sum for its Appshield application firewall purely to kill it in favour of its competing system, Trafficshield.