An 18-year-old bot herder from New Zealand plead guilty on Monday to six charges resulting from a failed botnet upgrade that led to a denial-of-service attack on the University of Pennsylvania.
Firefox combined with Internet Explorer on the same desktop opens up a zero day vulnerability that is highly critical, according to security researchers.
Apple's reputation for offering greater security than rival operating systems such as Windows will come under the spotlight in January.
The security industry converges at the annual RSA Conference in San Francisco this week, an event that's moved far beyond its origins as a get-together for cryptogeeks and other insiders.
Billions of dollars worth of acquisitions have bought Oracle a perhaps unexpected bonus: security lessons.
Plan ahead to develop a strategy for keeping company accounts and passwords under control.
Security researchers say they're starting to find flaws in Microsoft's latest major update for Windows XP.
Security experts are divided on whether the 200 days that Microsoft took to create its latest patch was reasonable. Additional reading: ZDNet Australia's Security Special
Two years after Chairman Bill Gates called on Microsoft to redouble its efforts to secure its software, the company is beginning to make progress, according to customers--but much work remains.
A Danish security researcher has warned that a recently discovered software flaw could leave user's systems open to malicious code carried on Web pages or in e-mails.
Microsoft is investigating the possibility that a file posted to several underground sites and chat rooms contains some protected source code to Windows 2000.
Internet Explorer is easy to use -- it's in every Windows installation. But there are reasons why you may want to look at browser alternatives.
Microsoft Internet Explorer contains two newly discovered flaws. Here are the details on patching the holes and a look at how Microsoft seems to be dancing around the problem.
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