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Symantec Corp., manufacturer of the popular Norton series of antivirus products, yesterday warned customers of a multiple critical holes in Microsoft Corp.'s Windows operating system. The security holes make the Windows systems vulnerable to remote attack. Following postings to the Bugtraq mailing list, a respected source of timely security information, Symantec security managers also detailed the heap overflow vulnerabilities of
The new Santy worm uses the Google search engine to find vulnerable websites and then defaces the sites' bulletin boards. The worm, formally named Net-Worm.Perl.Santy, attacks website bulletin boards (Internet forums or message centers) running versions of the popular phpBB bulletin board application. The worm exploits a known security vulnerability in early releases of the phpBB application, defacing the contents
Three academic computer scientists have uncovered a serious security hole in the Google Desktop Search Toolbar that was released on October 14th. Dan Wallach, assistant professor of computer science at Rice University and two graduate students, Seth Fogarty and Seth Nielson, have known of the security problem for a month; however, this is the first confirmed report of a serious
A Wired article this week had the bold headline Hollywood Wants BitTorrent Dead. It is obvious that no matter the technology and no matter that the technology is being used legally by many of us the Music and Movie industry want to smash anything that can be constructed as a P2P network. It will not be long before they start
Energy Vampires, that's what phone chargers, televisions, video/DVD/CD recorders, and a host of other household appliances were called today by California state legislators who passed a bill to reuire the devices to be more efficient by using less engergy when not in use. Hey, did you even know that those ubiquitous black plugs all around the house were even running
Google, the search engine company, won a federal court battle against Geico, the insurance company, today that allows the search engine to sell online advertisements tied to keywords that are also trademarked company names. Geico claimed that Google should not be allowed to display advertisements for rival insurance companies when the Geico name is used as a search keyword. U.S.
This is amazing check this quote out. "The Australian police have been given the power to install spyware and Trojans on suspected criminals' computers under the new Surveillance Devices Act." I wonder how many countries are already doing this? I am sure this makes privacy advocates in Australia a bit nervous because their is bound to be abuse and non