With global effort, a new type of worm is slowed
There have been big computer worm outbreaks before, but nothing quite like Conficker.
Robert McMillan | 16 Feb | Read more
There have been big computer worm outbreaks before, but nothing quite like Conficker.
Robert McMillan | 16 Feb | Read more
The network administrator who was jailed for allegedly holding San Francisco's city government network hostage has filed a US$3 million claim against the city.
Robert McMillan | 05 Feb | Read more
Employees at U.S. federal security agencies are being notified that their personal information may have been compromised after hackers planted a virus on computer networks of government contractor SRA International.
Robert McMillan | 04 Feb | Read more
Microsoft has filed a lawsuit against a former employee, charging him with taking a job at the software giant in order to steal information that would be helpful in his patent infringement case against the company.
Nancy Gohring | 02 Feb | Read more
A former prosecutor says the Mayor of London was ignoring the facts this week when he publicly <a href="http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&articleId=9126868"> threw his support </a> behind the man who has admitted hacking into <a href="http://www.computerworld.com/action/inform.do?command=search&searchTerms=U.S.+Armed+Forces"> U.S. military </a> computers in 2001.
Sharon Gaudin | 30 Jan | Read more
A former Unix engineer for the US Federal National Mortgage Association, better known as Fannie Mae, has been accused of planting malicious code on the corporation's network that was to "destroy and alter" all of the data on the company's servers this Saturday, court documents show.
Gregg Keizer | 30 Jan | Read more
Few customers of network access control use it for what it was intended, preferring instead to deploy the security technology to keep guests and contractors away from corporate production networks, according to a new report.
Tim Greene | 29 Jan | Read more
In a column published Tuesday in London's Telegraph newspaper, the mayor of London called upon US President Barack Obama to call off the US effort to extradite and prosecute the British hacker who in 2001 broke into computer systems in the Department of Defense, NASA and the US Army.
Sharon Gaudin | 29 Jan | Read more
A British hacker who sought to find evidence of UFOs on U.S. military computers has another chance at avoiding extradition after a court ruling Friday.
Jeremy Kirk | 27 Jan | Read more
VeriSign said it plans to buy Certicom, just three days after Research In Motion's hostile bid for the security company unraveled.
Nancy Gohring | 27 Jan | Read more
Hackers have taken down two high-profile targets as they continue their ongoing Web attacks in support of Palestine, defacing Web sites run by the U.S. Army and the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO).
Robert McMillan | 12 Jan | Read more
Following the success of researchers last week in creating a false SSL certificate based on VeriSign's RapidSSL brand, the company is scrambling to explain how it happened, how it's preventing it from reoccurring, and whether its other SSL certificate-generation services are at risk.
Ellen Messmer | 07 Jan | Read more
Swedish police are unraveling a scheme where criminals stole credit card details by tampering with a point-of-sale (POS) terminals at a Toys R Us store in Malmö.
Jeremy Kirk | 17 Dec | Read more
Stein Bagger, the Danish IT executive who allegedly created millions of dollars in fake contracts for his company, has claimed in an interview that he was threatened at gunpoint and acted as he did to protect his family.
James Niccolai | 15 Dec | Read more
Momentum continues to build for rapid deployment of DNS encryption mechanisms.
Carolyn Duffy Marsan | 10 Dec | Read more
Stein Bagger, the Danish IT executive who turned himself in to Los Angeles police on Saturday and confessed to being wanted by Interpol, is being held by U.S. immigration officials and will be sent back to Denmark to face charges.
James Niccolai | 10 Dec | Read more
Cybercriminals operating worldwide are benefitting from ineffective law enforcement and a growing economic recession that could make jittery people more susceptible to cybercrime scams.
Ellen Messmer | 10 Dec | Read more
Black market criminals are offering to sell details on 21 million German bank accounts for Euro 12 million (US$15.3 million), according to an investigative report published Saturday.
Robert McMillan | 09 Dec | Read more
The US Open tennis tournament provides network access for the players, guests and media, but this past summer the association running the event took an extra security step to make sure access wasn't too open.
Ellen Messmer | 03 Dec | Read more
The criminal market online for buying and selling stolen credit cards, pirated software and information about financial accounts is thriving, according to a report published Monday by Symantec.
Ellen Messmer | 25 Nov | Read more