Hackers can delete Facebook friends, thanks to flaw
A bug in Facebook's Web site lets hackers delete Facebook friends without permission.
Robert McMillan | 22 May | Read more
A bug in Facebook's Web site lets hackers delete Facebook friends without permission.
Robert McMillan | 22 May | Read more
Even without cookies, popular browsers such as Internet Explorer and Firefox give Web sites enough information to get a unique picture of their visitors about 94 percent of the time, according to research compiled over the past few months by the Electronic Frontier Foundation.
Robert McMillan | 19 May | Read more
Google has decided to stop its Street View cars from sniffing wireless networking data after an embarrassing privacy gaffe.
Robert McMillan | 17 May | Read more
A former security guard has pleaded guilty to charges that he broke into his employer's computers while working the night shift at a Dallas hospital.
Robert McMillan | 17 May | Read more
Scammers are infecting computers with a Trojan horse program disguised as software that determines whether PCs are compatible with Windows 7.
Robert McMillan | 11 May | Read more
Although sales were flat in its enterprise businesses, a jump in consumer sales helped Symantec boost earnings by about 5 percent during its most recent quarter.
Robert McMillan | 06 May | Read more
Terry Childs, the San Francisco network administrator who refused to hand over passwords to his boss, was found guilty of one felony count of denying computer services, a jury found Tuesday.
Robert McMillan | 28 Apr | Read more
Microsoft has re-released a buggy update that didn't properly protect some of its Windows 2000 users from a security flaw.
Robert McMillan | 28 Apr | Read more
After distributing a buggy antivirus update that apparently disabled hundreds of thousands of computers on Wednesday, McAfee is still at a loss to explain exactly what happened.
Robert McMillan | 23 Apr | Read more
Google is investigating a growing number of reports that hackers are breaking into legitimate Gmail accounts and then using them to send spam messages.
Robert McMillan | 21 Apr | Read more
One week after a critical bug was made public, Oracle has patched its Java virtual machine to fix an exploit that could be used to sneak malicious software onto a computer.
Robert McMillan | 16 Apr | Read more
Hackers broke into a server used by the Apache Software Foundation to keep track of software bugs.
Robert McMillan | 15 Apr | Read more
A scam Facebook page offering the site's users a US$1,000 Ikea gift card took in nearly 40,000 victims Friday.
Robert McMillan | 12 Apr | Read more
More than anyone else, Jaak Aaviksoo has first-hand knowledge of what a cyberwar might feel like. In April 2007, Estonia's banking, media and government presence online was disrupted by several waves of distributed denial of service attacks that knocked services offline. The country is heavily wired -- 90 percent of all financial transactions are conducted over the Internet and 70 percent of the population files their tax returns electronically -- so the incident was widely felt by the country's 1.3 million citizens.
Robert McMillan | 08 Apr | Read more
Like many other Facebook users Jeff Crites heard of the US$1,000 Best Buy gift-card offer last month from a friend, a Web savvy director of social media at a Fortune 500 company.
Robert McMillan | 08 Apr | Read more