Commentary: Anti-virus software won't protect you from the latest type of worm affecting Windows systems -- you need a personal firewall.
A Mac OS X hacker challenge apparently got a systems engineer at the University of Wisconsin-Madison into trouble with university administrators.
Cutting costs by freezing or reducing IT security budgets is a risky approach, even in tight economic times, warns a leading security expert.
Computer worms are likely to become a more damaging combination of virus writing and hacker exploits, according to security experts.
Internet security experts are gathering at a secretive conference later this week to strategise in their fight against cybercriminals.
In three years phishing has transformed from an unknown threat into a multi-million dollar industry; in the next stage of its evolution, phishers will avoid using spam and instead hijack small parts of 'trusted' Web sites in order to bypass anti-phishing tools.
Cutting costs by freezing or reducing IT security budgets is a risky approach, even in tight economic times, warns a leading security expert.
Businesses need to remain one step ahead of the hackers and virus writers by ensuring they know more about the holes in their networks than the cyber-criminals, according to one expert.
Attacks on corporate networks have gone down, but cyber-vandals now have a much larger pool of software vulnerabilities to attack, a report has warned.
Increasingly, attackers are using better tools to find vulnerabilities quickly, exploit flaws and hide their attacks.
Security researchers worked overtime in 2007, which turned out to be a nightmare for software vendors from day one.
Commentary: Anti-virus software won't protect you from the latest type of worm affecting Windows systems -- you need a personal firewall.
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Microsoft's Passport, a core piece of .NET, could make you prone to identity theft. A single sign-on might be convenient, but a simple worm could easily nab your name and password.
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