Google's approach to privacy is a decade behind Microsoft, the Redmond software giant's chief privacy strategist told ZDNet.com.au on Thursday in a video interview.
A strange sort of techno-drama is playing out in the city of San Francisco, California right now. The blame for the fiasco may not be as easily assigned as it at first appears.
Shortly after the 9/11 bombings, Microsoft hired Scott Charney, a federal prosecutor for the US justice Department, to head up its Trustworthy Computing division. At AusCERT 2008, ZDNet.com.au caught up with Charney to hear his thoughts on how those events changed the security landscape and what he thinks about the current state of IT security.
Hewlett-Packard has announced a settlement with Business Week and New York Times reporters on whom the computer maker spied during a hunt for a boardroom leak.
A Queensland mother of two has been jailed for operating bank accounts in an internet money laundering scam.
Of all the sinister things that internet viruses do, this might be the worst: they can make people an unsuspecting collector of child pornography.
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Kazaa's chief lobbyist, Philip Corwin, says Hollywood is sparing no expense to squash P2P.
Attorney Hemanshu Nigam says virus writers "ought to think twice before they hit the send button."
U.S. workers spend almost a quarter of their day dealing with e-mail, according to a survey--and bosses are bucking conventional wisdom in their response.
Microsoft has disclosed technical information vital to allowing third-party developers create software that works well with Windows.
Scott Charney's carreer has taken him from prosecutor in Bronx County to vice chairman of the President's Critical Infrastructure Protection Board. Now he's literally looking for trouble as Microsoft's chief security strategist.
Microsoft could be forced to make an operating system with no frills. An operating system with no frills, however, is one that no-one's likely to want to use -- not even developers.
Starting Oct. 1, Microsoft will move many of its most popular enterprise packages--including Office--to a new subscription system that could raise the price 33 to 107 percent.
"Hi! How are you? I send you this file in order to have your advice See you later. Thanks"--Text of e-mail message that accompanies files spreading the W32.Sircam.worm@mm virus.
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