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U.S. Adults: Cyber-Crime More Likely than Physical Crime

A survey of U.S. adults revealed that three times the number of respondents said they were more likely to be victimized in an online...

Researcher Bares Oracle Zero-Day Flaw at Black Hat

ARLINGTON, Va.—British security researcher David Litchfield used the spotlight of the Black Hat Federal Briefings here to call attention to a gaping flaw in...

Spreading the Secret Source Code Sauce

Microsoft has, for many years, licensed the source code for Windows to a variety of partners, large customers, educational institutions and others. But until now,...

Gartner Disses Oracle Security

Close on the heels of Oracles latest critical patch update, Gartner has published an advisory warning that, given the seriousness and the ease of...

Symantec President Bloom Resigns

Gary Bloom, current president and vice chairman of Symantec and former CEO of Veritas Software, has announced that he will walk away from Symantec...

Botnet Operator Pleads Guilty

A 20-year-old California man who was charged with operating a 400,000 strong "botnet" of compromised computer zombies pleaded guilty Jan. 23 and agreed to...

Oracle Opens the Book on Its Recipe for Unbreakable Code

Oracle Corp. is sick of it. Microsoft Corp. has been strutting with its newfound security street cred. Take its developers—theyre able to quote chapter and...

Google-Funded Badware Coalition Forms

Web search powerhouse Google has joined with Sun Microsystems to fund a new anti-spyware coalition that is on tap to launch on Jan. 25,...

Hackers Target Notre Dame Donors

Alumni and friends of Notre Dame University may have had their personal information snatched by hackers, according to a university spokesperson. This hack is...

Urgent Alert Raised for Blackworm D-Day

A high-powered group of security volunteers are raising an "urgent alert" for a potentially destructive e-mail worm crawling through inboxes, warning that the worms...