Publisher:Gregg Keizer Time:08/04/2007
Security researchers at Trend Micro Inc. have spotted a Russian server loaded with more than 400 different pieces of malware that may be poised to launch a large-scale attack through malicious Web sites hosted in Italy....
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Publisher:Candace Lombardi Time:08/04/2007
When I was in college, there was this one classmate everyone found especially annoying. Quite the little joiner, she would post opinions of dubious intellectual worth on the class message board just to show that she did the reading and to puff herself up with some tangentially related story....
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Publisher:Scott Dunn Time:08/04/2007
If you poke around tip sites, you'll find a lot of myths and harebrained theories about optimizing virtual memory (the hard-disk space Windows uses to supplement your RAM)--a few of them even perpetuated by me. This time I went to the horse's mouth for the Microsoft-approved ways to set Windows' memory management to full steam ahead. ...
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Publisher:Sumner Lemon Time:08/04/2007
Diebold Election Systems Inc. electronic voting machines are not secure enough to guarantee a trustworthy election, and an attacker with access to a single machine could disrupt or change the outcome of an election using viruses, according to a review of Diebold's source code....
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Publisher:Robert McMillan Time:08/04/2007
That's what organizers of the 15th annual DefCon hacking conference are telling attendees Friday, after being tipped off that the TV news program Dateline NBC has sent a producer with a hidden camera to investigate the show. ...
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Publisher:Ellen Messmer Time:08/04/2007
Can rootkit malware that hides by mimicking a software-based virtual machine ever be detected? That was the topic of debate as security researchers presented their latest findings to packed audiences at the Black Hat conference here....
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Publisher:Horia Covaci Time:08/04/2007
Comba Telecom announced the availability of its TD-SCDMA Remote Radio Unit (RRU) solution for China¡¯s 3G Market....
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Publisher:Horia Covaci Time:08/04/2007
Siemens and Fujitsu announced a business collaboration designed to expand the market for the PalmSecure palm vein authentication system developed by Fujitsu in combination with Siemens¡¯ biometric software ¡°ID Center¡±....
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Publisher:Horia Covaci Time:08/04/2007
IBM announced that Power Architecture will make a return to outer space as NASA plans to launch the Phoenix Mars Lander, its most sophisticated probe to date....
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Publisher:Jeremy Kirk Time:08/02/2007
Security experts have discovered a worm that might just be the recording industry's dream application: it hunts down and deletes MP3s on infected PCs....
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