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Apple has done what it does best once again. Fans and the media alike are abuzz trying to guess at what the company will reveal Sept. 7 at a "special event" in San Francisco. Because Apple is notoriously tight-lipped about new products and because its iPod is still the portable music player to have,...
Although law enforcement officials have arrested two men they believe wrote the Mytob and Zotob worms, one security expert said there may not be much enterprises can do to stop such infections from striking again. The worms, which infected servers and PCs running Windows 2000, struck at ABC, America...
Although law enforcement officials have arrested two men they believe wrote the Mytob and Zotob worms, one security expert said there may not be much enterprises can do to stop such infections from striking again. The worms, which infected servers and PCs running Windows 2000, struck at ABC, America...
Two new phishing scams, one targeting PayPal and one eBay, are making the rounds on the Internet today, the anti-malware company Sophos said. In the first, scammers are using a new twist: Instead of trying to get PayPal customers to input personal information on a bogus Web site, the e-mail sends th...
A spyware ring has infiltrated the IT systems of as many as 50 international banks and logged social security numbers, credit card and bank account numbers, passwords, eBay and PayPal account information and chat transcripts, according to the security firm Sunbelt Software. The anti-spyware manufact...
IBM Research will turn over its data search technology to the open source community, the company said today. The Unstructured Information Management Architecture searches store data not through keywords, but by analyzing the data within documents to see if they fit the concepts and facts the user is...
The first beta of Vista was released last week and quickly a set of viruses, named Danom.A through Danom.E, were published the following week by a virus-writer. However, the malware actually exploits a new command line and scripting language that Microsoft has not yet confirmed will be included in V...
It's a modern parental dilemma: Should children have cell phones? Hectic schedules make it convenient to be able to reach your 10-year-old when he's at swimming lessons and you're stuck in traffic. But if you decide to go that route, is your child responsible and mature enough to use the phone corre...
Vonage has taken a step into the WiMax world, making a deal with TowerStream, a provider of high-speed Internet access. The deal is the first of its kind between VoIP and WiMax services. TowerStream, which offers service in New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, San Francisco, Boston and several cities ...
Intel has joined forces with Connexion by Boeing to help ensure that travelers almost always have access to the Internet. In the announcement yesterday, Intel said it has tested the compatibility of laptops using Intel Centrino mobile technology and stamped the high-speed, in-flight service with its...
Intel has joined forces with Connexion by Boeing to help ensure that travelers almost always have access to the Internet. In the announcement today, Intel said it has tested the compatibility of laptops using Intel Centrino mobile technology and stamped the high-speed, in-flight service with its Wi...
The man who helped safeguard e-mail with his Pretty Good Privacy (PGP) desktop encryption program is now at work on ensuring no one can eavesdrop on Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) conversations. Phil Zimmermann was scheduled to demonstrate his VoIP security program at Black Hat Briefings, an In...
The man who helped safeguard e-mail with his Pretty Good Privacy (PGP) desktop encryption program is now at work on ensuring no one can eavesdrop on Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) conversations. Phil Zimmermann was scheduled to demonstrate his VoIP security program at Black Hat Briefings, an In...
XM Radio and Napster today announced a service that links listening to music to purchasing it, which one analyst said should be welcomed by consumers. "In the new world of digital music, portability is the holy grail and anything that you can do in service of portability will be appreciated by consu...
Motorola showed off a sleek, new smartphone equipped with a QWERTY keyboard and announced it had designed, in partnership with fashion sunglass maker Oakley, eyewear that includes a Bluetooth-enabled headset. The new products were revealed this week at Motorola's analyst conference, dubbed Motonow, ...
Microsoft, following in Google's footsteps, is now offering a bird's-eye view of the United States with MSN Virtual Earth. Virtual Earth marries mapping and online local searches, showing results in an aerial view using satellite images. Users can find a specific address or search for business categ...
Microsoft came up with a hulking win in the gaming world yesterday, announcing that it had cemented exclusive rights to develop and publish multiplayer, online games using Marvel super heroes. No financial terms were released. Marvel's lineup includes the "Hulk," "Spider-Man," the "Avengers," "Fanta...
The latest version of Microsoft's automotive operating system is on the market, the company has announced. Windows Automotive 5.0, based on Microsoft's embedded OS Windows CE 5.0, can render complex 3D graphics, such as those used in navigation systems, with its expanded virtual memory support. "The...
Cisco and Yahoo have joined forces with several anti-spam companies to propose a standard for filtering junk out of in-boxes. Software companies SendMail and PGP worked with the others on DomainKeys Identified Mail (DKIM), which works through public key cryptography. Each message gets a signature, w...
Microsoft recently announced it would enable RSS feeds in the next version of its operating system -- Longhorn, due out in beta next month. While use of RSS feeds is only at about 5-10 percent of Internet surfers, according to Yankee Group analyst Laura DiDio, their endorsement by Microsoft is likel...
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