IE7 will be delivered through Automatic Updates

To help customers become more secure and up-to-date, Microsoft will distribute Internet Explorer 7 as a high-priority update via Automatic Updates and the Windows Update and Microsoft Update sites. More...

Minor issues surface after IE 7 launch

A day after its release, some minor issues with Internet Explorer 7 have materialised, but overall the new Microsoft browser appears to be well received. More...

Stanford Says You're Hooked On The Net

Internet addiction used to be a joking matter, but it has reached a point where the reality of too much WWW has lead some to busted relationships, job losses, and other bad side effects. More...

eEye Digital Security to Offer Free Blink Personal

This product is for use on Windows based PC’s and is free for non-commercial use only. More...

Mozilla Set To Take Firefox 2.0 Final Tuesday

The new version arrives hot on the heels of Microsoft's Internet Explorer 7 for Windows XP, which went final on Wednesday. More...

Mozilla Releases Firefox 2.0 Beta

The Mozilla Foundation released the next beta of version 2.0 of its popular Firefox browser Tuesday. Release Candidate 3 is expected to be the final version of Firefox 2.0. More...

Microsoft Sets Virtualization Free

The software, called Virtual Hard Drive (VHD), allows a single hardware device to have multiple operating systems and applications running simultaneously. More...

Study Shows Internet Addicts Cover Up Habit

The study by researchers from the Stanford University School of Medicine in California found one in 8 adults admitted they needed to spend less time online. More...

Video iPods Infected With Windows Computer Virus

Some of Apple Computer Inc.'s (AAPL) iPod digital music players shipped in the past month carry a computer virus, according to a posting on Apple's technical support Web site. More...

How Do You Secure 100 Million Laptops?

If the plan is perfectly executed, Nicholas Negroponte's One Laptop Per Child project will deploy 100 million laptops in the first year. More...

Warning over 'broken up' internet

The internet could one day be broken up into separate networks around the world, a leading light in the development of the net has warned. More...

Spamhaus Warns of More Junk E-Mail

According to Spamhaus, more than 650 million Internet users -- including those at the White House, the U.S. Army and the European Parliament -- benefit from Spamhaus' "blacklist" of spammers that helps identify which messages to block. More...

Software vulnerabilities already outnumber

Vulnerabilities through September have reached 5,300, leaping past the 5,195 discovered for all of 2005. More...

Eudora morphs into Thunderbird

In future, Eudora will be free and open source - while "retaining Eudora's uniquely rich feature set and productivity enhancements". More...

Massive hacker attack on Britain

Police say the virus code known as a 'backdoor' is being used to target computer passwords, credit card numbers, financial data and email addresses. More...

Microsoft Sets New Patch Record, Fixes 26 Flaws

The flaws, more than half of which received a "critical" rating, run the gamut from Windows Explorer and Internet Explorer to Word and Excel and PowerPoint. More...

Google Docs joins word processor with spreadsheet

The combination of Writely and Google Spreadsheets seeks to solve the problem of how people manage and collaborate information stuck in different word processors and spreadsheets by giving individuals or groups Web access to the same data. More...

Official Google Blog Gets Hacked

The Official Google Blog was hacked over the weekend, happening embarrassingly after Google had just posted about how seriously it takes security. More...

Chinese Hackers Attack Commerce Department

For the second time in four months, Chinese hackers have been discovered trying to crack U.S. government computers. This time, the brazen attacks zeroed in on computers within the U.S. Department of Commerce. More...

$100 Laptop Sports Cutting-Edge Security

The $100 laptops planned for children around the world might turn out to be as revolutionary for their security measures as for their low-cost economics. More...

Hackers Intrude on Social Communities

People are attracted to communities that are built around shared interests. As community members socialize with each other, bonds form between individual members. More...

PhishTank

PhishTank is a collaborative clearing house for data and information about phishing on the Internet. Also, PhishTank provides an open API for developers and researchers to integrate anti-phishing data into their applications at no charge. More...

Microsoft making it hard for pirates of Vista

People running a version of Windows Vista that Microsoft believes is pirated will initially be denied access to some of the most awaited Vista features, including Windows Aero, an improved graphics technology. More...

Cybercitizens Keep Watch Over ID-Theft Victims

Until phishing is eviscerated, and short of directly warning intended victims, consumers will continue to be hooked by phishing attempts. More...

Printer users troubled by security and data issues

The amount of data is growing so significantly in the enterprise space that IT managers have a really hard time handling it. More...

Google launches literacy project

The site was launched at the Frankfurt Book Fair, the world's largest gathering of publishing executives, in conjunction with the United Nations and a literacy campaign organized by fair officials. More...

US internet 'highly resilient' to terror attack

The internet infrastructure in the US would still be able to function even if terrorists were able to knock out key physical network hubs, researchers have claimed. More...

Old spammers learn new tricks

In September, the global ratio of email-borne viruses in spam was 1.12 percent, an increase of 0.1 percent since last month. More...

Attacks prompt third parties to fix flaw

Attacks targeting the latest flaw in Microsoft's operating system have convinced two groups to release temporary fixes to protect users while the software giant develops its own patch. More...

Firefox JavaScript risk downplayed

Flaws in the way Firefox handles JavaScript code only crash the browser (at worst), contrary to earlier reports that researchers had identified a zero-day exploit that might lend itself to malware-based attacks. More...