Skype - is your version secure?

A recent vulnerability in the software allows an attacker to steal a file from a victim's PC, provided the victim has visited a malicious website and the attacker knows the file's location. More...

Password-stealing Trojan arrives in German spam

A fresh round of spam with a password-stealing Trojan horse detected on Sunday uses a German-language pitch, saying the malicious attachment is an official Microsoft Windows update. More...

Exploit Of Windows 2000 Zero-Day To Hit In June

The exploit, which gives an attacker full access to a PC, leverages a flaw in the operating system's kernel that can be triggered through the Server Message Block protocol. More...

Microsoft Hopes for Smoother Vista Sailing

In launching its delayed but ambitious new operating system, Vista, and Office 2007, Microsoft faces the most daunting competitor in its history - itself. More...

Symantec Exterminates Antivirus Bug

The flaw, which affects recent versions of its Client Security and Antivirus Corporate Edition products, is considered serious, and could be exploited by hackers to run unauthorized software on unpatched PCs. more...

PC industry eyes emerging market

Microsoft Corp., chip makers and PC firms aim to increase PC usage in the developing world with a new flexible payment program to lower the initial costs of buying a computer. More...

Zfone encrypts VoIP for Windows users

Zfone, a free piece of software that encrypts VoIP (voice over IP) calls in a way that may circumvent government eavesdropping laws in some countries. More...

IM worm installs rogue browser

Yhoo32-explr spreads by sending links to a site that installs the Safety Browser to all an infected surfers' Yahoo! Messenger contacts. more...

Microsoft Sets Windows Vista Requirements

Anticipating global interest surrounding Windows Vista, Microsoft has launched a Website outlining major hardware requirements, requisite for Windows Vista. More...

New trojan attacks unpatched Word vulnerability

Hackers have found and are exploiting an unpatched vulnerability in Microsoft Word 2000, Word XP and Word 2003 that will allow a third party access to the computer affected. More...

MIT's Negroponte expects $100 laptops next year

Orders from five or six countries, for a total of 6 million machines, are hoped for before a full pilot project can begin. More...

Colleges chase as cheats shift to higher tech

At the University of California at Los Angeles, a student loaded his class notes into a handheld e-mail device and tried to read them during an exam. More...

Students get hooked on Facebook meetings

Facebook.com, the online directory of colleges that acts as telephone book, yearbook and social hub all in one, has many students hooked. More...

200,000 Identities Exposed In Data Breaches

The university formed a security SWAT team to both inform potential victims and take "aggressive steps to improve the security of data and IT resources on all Ohio University campuses," the college said. More...

Will video break the Internet?

High-quality video threatens to clog the electronic pipelines that provide access to the Web. More...

What to do before donating your PC

Thanks to Symantec, there's now a guide on what to do before you donate your PC. More...

Skype goes for broke

The Web-calling outfit owned by eBay is offering free PC-to-phone calling in North America in order to hit growth targets. More...

BT to create wireless cities

BT has begun rolling out wireless infrastructure in six U.K. cities as the first phase of a wider project, the company said on Wednesday. More...

Alternative Web Browsing

In a Google world, information is organized by search. Want a book review? Search. Airplane ticket? Search. More...

Sony Plans Blu-ray Laptop

In a sign of competition over next-generation standards for DVDs, Sony said it plans to release the first Blu-ray notebook PC in June. More...

Diebold voting systems critically flawed

A critical vulnerability in Diebold Election Systems' touchscreen voting systems that could allow any person with access to a voting terminal the ability to completely change the system code or ballot file on the system. More...

Retail-Safe RFID Unveiled

IBM is introducing a new kind of wireless identification tag this week that it hopes will quell privacy unrest over plans to use RFID technology in retail stores. More...

NSA has database of Americans' phone calls

The National Security Agency has been secretly collecting the phone call records of tens of millions of Americans, using data provided by AT&T, Verizon and BellSouth. More...

University technology that could cut flooding

FLOODS which have devastated the region in recent years could be averted with help from wireless technology being developed by academics at Leeds University. More...

High Education Tackles The Wi-Fi Capacity

Colleges are finding ways to meet the wireless computing demands of large concentrations of students--and businesses could learn a thing or two from them. More...

U.S. Eases Wiretap Order on College Computer

The Federal Communications Commission, facing a court challenge by U.S. universities, has eased demands that the universities install switches throughout their computer networks. MOre...

Congress may clamp down on MySpace

New legislation from Congress would block access to social-networking sites like MySpace and Facebook in schools and libraries, including instant-messaging services. MOre...

Windows Live Messenger 8 Enters Public Beta

A new version of the popular Messenger communications client from Microsoft was made available to the general public yesterday (it had previously been available by invitation only). More...

McAfee launch VirusScan for virus free Macs

Although there has been no reported virus ever found on an Apple Computer, McAfee says that "Macintosh platform vulnerabilities have increased more than 228 percent since 2003. More...

Microsoft Patches Windows, Exchange

The updates fixes a couple of security flaws in Windows that Microsoft said could be used by attackers to cause systems to seize up. More...

Prepare against phishing

''Phishing'' may sound like a silly word - more on its origins later - but the threat that this kind of fraud poses to ordinary Internet users is dead serious. More...

Fantasy football virus kicks off

A new Excel virus is targeting fantasy soccer league fans, luring them with an offer of worksheets to track the performance of their team. More...

Yes, Macs can catch a virus, too

Benjamin Daines was browsing the Web when he clicked on a series of links that promised pictures of an unreleased update to his computer's operating system. More...

Intel Announces New Brand Name for Chips

Intel will sell its new generation of 65-nanometer desktop and laptop chips under the brand name Core 2 Duo when it launches them this summer, the company says. More...

Vista will cause security confusion

ANALYSTS AT the Yankee Group reckon Microsoft Vista will deliver a bewildering blow to the market for Windows security software. More...

Everyone Wants to 'Own' Your PC

When technology serves its owners, it is liberating. When it is designed to serve others, over the owner's objection, it is oppressive. More...

Your Thoughts Are Your Password

What if you could one day unlock your door or access your bank account by simply "thinking" your password? Too far out? Perhaps not. More...

Apple to recycle old Macs for free

Apple Computer Inc. will soon adopt an environmentally friendly twist for buyers of new Macintosh computers by offering to recycle their old computers for free. More...

Universities need a privacy refresher course

Unbelievable but true: While most higher educational institutions engage in e-commerce, most also engage in practices that present potential privacy risks. More...

Startup Targets Unpatched Windows Vulnerabilities

A new security company says it has developed a novel approach to protecting PCs from software that exploits unpatched Windows vulnerabilities. More...

Macs are virus targets, some experts warn

Benjamin Daines was browsing the Web when he clicked on a series of links that promised pictures of an unreleased update to his computer's operating system. More...

New Microsoft browser raises Google's hackles

The new browser includes a search box in the upper-right corner that is typically set up to send users to Microsoft's MSN search service. More...