IE Plagued by ‘Extremely Critical’ Flaws

Secunia recommends users drop IE and use an alternative browser. “Although hundreds of millions of dollars have been spent on...

Oops: Blue Screen Of Death Interrupts Gates’ CES Show

Bill Gates’ keynote presentation Wednesday night at the Consumer Electronics Show didn’t quite go according to plan: glitches, including a...

The 10 worst PC viruses of 2004

Anti-virus specialist Panda Software has named the Downloader.GK Trojan as the virus that caused the most amount of damage to...

You’ve got spam! US tops the list

The United States is still the country where the most number of spams originate, almost 42 per cent, says a...

Exploits released for new Windows flaws

A Chinese security group has released sample code to exploit two new unpatched flaws in Microsoft Windows. The advisory comes...

Google: Hacker’s Best Friend?

The first exploitations of Google’s (Nasdaq: GOOG) peculiar search algorithms were humorous, political, or both. I’m referring the once-popular procedure...

New Trojan Threatens Smart Phones

A new Trojan horse aimed at smart phones using Symbian operating system galloped in earlier this week, just in time...

9/11 Legislation – Misguided Data-Mining and Domestic Surveillance Schemes

On Friday President Bush signed into law the Intelligence Reform and Terrorism Prevention Act of 2004 (IRTPA; PDF), launching several...

Hollywood Wants BitTorrent Dead

Hollywood movie studios launched new legal action Tuesday against operators of sites that help connect people to movies on three...

What Price Privacy?

A huge spending bill signed into law by President Bush on Wednesday could create a new hot job-growth sector: chief...