After four years at the helm of Microsoft's security group, Mike Nash is taking a break. This June he will go on sabbatical after handing over responsibilities to his replacement, Ben Fathi.
Robert McMillan | 27 Mar | Read more
McAfee's auditor, Deloitte & Touche USA, may be thinking of buying some security software itself, after a Deloitte employee left an unencrypted CD containing sensitive information on thousands of McAfee employees in the back of an airline seat last December.
Robert McMillan | 27 Feb | Read more
Big-name companies like America Online Inc. (AOL) and Adobe Systems Inc. could do a better job of writing secure software, according to a recent report by two Princeton University researchers.
Robert McMillan | 07 Feb | Read more
Users of AMD's microprocessors may want to think twice before looking for technical support on the company's Web site. Customer support discussion forums on the forums.amd.com site have been compromised and are being used in an attempt to infect visitors with malicious software, an AMD spokesman confirmed Monday.
Robert McMillan | 31 Jan | Read more
Just in time for the holidays, a worm called Dasher has hit the Internet. The malicious software, which primarily targets Windows 2000 systems, is one of three new attacks targeting Microsoft's software that has emerged in the last 24 hours. Two other recently posted attacks can crash or gum up the Internet Explorer (IE) browser.
Robert McMillan | 16 Dec | Read more
A sophisticated phishing attack has proven to be so successful, it has tricked eBay's own fraud investigations team into endorsing it as legitimate, according to an independent security consultant who reported the attack to eBay.
Robert McMillan | 06 Dec | Read more
After years of writing viruses and worms for operating systems and software running on Internet servers, hackers found some new areas to target in 2005, according to an influential report on security trends published on Tuesday.
Robert McMillan | 23 Nov | Read more
2005 looks to be a record year for keylogging. According to security vendor iDefense, hackers are expected to release more than 6,000 keylogging programs this year, a 65 percent jump in the amount of software that illegally records every keystroke on a victim's PC.
Robert McMillan | 17 Nov | Read more
Cisco Systems has discovered a critical bug in the operating system used to power its routers, the company announced Wednesday. The flaw is the second serious problem that Cisco has found in its routers' Internetwork Operating System (IOS) that is related to a controversial security presentation given at the Black Hat USA security conference in July of this year.
Robert McMillan | 03 Nov | Read more
It looks like there is life after Black Hat for Michael Lynn, after all. The former Internet Security Systems (ISS) researcher has landed a job with networking vendor Juniper Networks just months after creating an international stir at July's Black Hat USA conference by disclosing information about security weaknesses in Cisco routers.
Robert McMillan | 07 Nov | Read more
Researchers at IBM's Almaden Labs have developed a way to keep those nasty worms and viruses from running on computers, without the use of antivirus software.
Robert McMillan | 29 Oct | Read more
A new coalition of technology companies and public interest organizations has hit some early milestones in its effort to combat spyware. On Thursday, the Anti-Spyware Coalition published two documents that the group hopes will take the computer security industry a step closer toward agreeing on a set of best practices for stopping this type of annoying and invasive software.
Robert McMillan | 28 Oct | Read more
The mobile phones being sold on the shelves during the 2006 holiday season should be a lot more secure than this year's crop, thanks to a new mobile security specification that is expected to be released in the first half of 2006.
Robert McMillan | 28 Sep | Read more
Researchers at the University of California, Berkeley, have found a way to turn the clicks and clacks of typing on a computer keyboard into a startlingly accurate transcript of what exactly is being typed.
Robert McMillan | 14 Sep | Read more
A new Trojan horse program circulating around the Internet this week appears to be on a moral mission to stamp out adult Web sites, according to security research firm Sophos.
Robert McMillan | 07 Sep | Read more