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Microsoft and everyone else in the PC world knew that hackers would be working hard to find the cracks in the latest Windows XP software upgrade, intended mostly to bolster security. But it is security researchers and their work that has caused the greatest headache for Microsoft so far as it rolls ...
Symantec has announced the latest line of the company's consumer Internet security products. According to the company, the new software features enhanced levels of protection designed to address the newest and most rampant online threats. Led by Symantec's integrated-security and privacy-protection ...
Some people are anxious to download and install the Service Pack 2 (SP2) update to the Microsoft XP operating system, but just as many others seem wary of the 80-MB security-focused package and foresee possible problems with it. For its part, after repeatedly warning of the potential for application...
Spyware is so prevalent that it is becoming nearly impossible to find computers that do not contain at least some intrusive code lurking on the hard drive or buried deep within the Windows Registry. Spyware is any technology that aids in gathering information about a person or organization without t...
Microsoft plans to sell a discounted version of its Windows operating system to three Asian nations in a fight for market share with Linux. The 12-month pilot program to provide personal computers running stripped-down versions of Windows XP to governments in Thailand, Malaysia and Indonesia will st...
While eager to take advantage of the enhanced security features of Microsoft's long-awaited SP2 update, many corporate users of Windows XP will be cautious in activating it.
After extensive investment, testing and delay, Microsoft has made its Service Pack 2 for Windows XP available and is urging corporate and consumer users to update the operating system, which has been bombarded by Explorer browser and other vulnerabilities. A billion-dollar-batch of security upgrades...
Microsoft has finally announced the release of Windows XP Service Pack 2, a major software update for Windows XP that contains what the company is calling "advanced security technologies." The free service pack comes with many across-the-board security updates, including hardened default security se...
Microsoft's long-awaited and much-delayed update to its Windows operating system -- officially called Windows XP Service Pack 2 -- is finally ready and will be released to consumers later this month, the company said Thursday. Windows Service Pack 2 includes various security updates meant to fix som...
IBM has announced it is contributing its Java-based Cloudscape database software to the open-source community via the Apache Software Foundation, which will inspect the code and establish it as an open-source Java database to be called "Derby." IBM has been credited for supporting Linux and the open...
Microsoft has broken its monthly cycle of security updates to plug a few holes in its Internet Explorer browser, including the Download.Ject scripting weakness that caused a widespread, Web-based attack scare in June. The Download.Ject vulnerability and similar browser weaknesses prompted many secur...
As U.S. elections draw near, computer science experts and e-voting critics are making dire predictions about the outcome if paperless, closed-code touch-screen machines are used by Americans casting their ballots. The criticism grew into a challenge at the Black Hat Security Conference in Las Vegas ...
Virus writers busily scribbled code during the first half of 2004, introducing 4,677 new viruses into the wild, a 21 percent increase over the same period last year, according to a report released by Sophos, an international maker of antivirus and antispam software. "There's a greater interest in wr...
U.S. Sen. Orrin Hatch and other parties with a stake in the wars over peer-to-peer (P2P) software should meet with commercial P2P industry companies to talk about the so-called INDUCE Act. This is the point of view expressed by StreamCast Networks CEO Mike Weiss, one of several industry leaders who ...
Experts at Sophos have warned computer users that a file posing as photographic evidence that Osama Bin Laden has killed himself is in fact infected by the Hackarmy Trojan horse. Thousands of messages have been posted onto internet message boards and usenet newsgroups claiming that journalists from ...
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