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180Solutions Slapped with Adware Installation Complaint

A high-profile consumer advocacy group has asked the FTC (Federal Trade Commission) to pull the plug on the "illegal and deceptive practices" used by...

Microsoft Must Rethink Security Response

Its time for Microsoft to rethink its response to security holes. The software vendors slow response to a serious vulnerability in WMF (Windows Metafile) recently...

Harder-to-Detect Oracle Rootkit on the Way

A security expert working on a new version of an Oracle database rootkit says the programs are easy to create and could soon be...

Security Patch Watch: Skype, Cisco, FreeBSD

A new version of the popular Skype VOIP application has been released to correct a bug that caused Skype to be misread as a...

Ciscos Challenge: Catching the CIOs Eye

Cisco Systems Inc.s senior vice president of data center, switching, security technology and application networking services, Jayshree Ullal, has seen a quick succession of...

Triple Trojan Threat Calls on Symbian Cell Phones

Anti-virus vendors have detected a new batch of Trojans spreading on Symbian Ltd. smart-phone devices. According to definitions from Symantec Corp., the latest malware samples...

LogLogic Gets EMCs Compliance Smarts

LogLogic Inc. has tethered its log management capabilities to EMC Corp.s Smarts Technology, enabling organizations to bolster their internal log discovery and log administration...

Anti-virus Software: The Next Big Worm Target?

Finnish anti-virus specialist F-Secure Corp. has pushed out patches for multiple code execution vulnerabilities in its security software suite, prompting a new round of...

FBI Computer Crime Survey Finds Widespread Attacks

An FBI survey of more than 2,000 public and private organizations on the subject of cyber-crime found that almost 90 percent had experienced computer...

Man Indicted for Theft of Medical Data

The former manager of a San Jose, Calif., medical group was indicted on Thursday for stealing medical records for around 200,000 patients. Joseph Nathaniel Harris...