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When was the last time you updated your anti-virus software? Even if you update your AV software frequently, there's still a gap between the time a virus is released into the wild on "day zero" and when virus fighters can update their programs to squash the malware. To truly secure a network, what's...
While consumers have been slow to move to digital TV, that hasn't deterred Congress from trying to goose the transition process. That process includes snatching back spectrum currently used to broadcast over-the-air analog TV channels -- a process that, under current law, is supposed to occur by 20...
Financial services companies might be unwitting contributors to the nation's identity theft problem, according to a report from Forrester Research in Cambridge, Massachusetts. The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) estimates that identity theft costs American businesses US$50 billion to $60 billion a ye...
For companies burdened with legacy systems they can't seem to get rid of, this could be the jackpot they've been waiting for. A Los Gatos, California, startup maintains it has perfected a program that allows software applications compiled for one processor and operating system to run on another proc...
A federal appeals court in Boston has been asked to take a second look at a decision that some say could have a far-reaching effect on the privacy of Internet communications in the United States. The decision handed down by a panel of appeals court judges ruled that monitoring the content of people'...
Sender authentication might work as a club to beat down phishing attacks on Web denizens, but it does little to fight spam. That's the finding of a study released this week by CipherTrust, a messaging security firm in Atlanta. On the basis of analyzing some two million messages received between May ...
The words "copy protection" make Adam Gervin wince. Gervin is senior marketing director for the entertainment technologies group at Macrovision, in Santa Clara, California, a company best known for cooking up ways to thwart the copying of movies and music from tapes and discs. He's also point man in...
Despite a drop in its overall share of global spam, the United States remains the number one originator of unsolicited e-mail in the world. Those are the findings of antivirus, antispam software maker Sophos in its latest "dirty dozen" report, which identifies the 12 top countries where spam origina...
It's as jarring as former First Lady Nancy Reagan saying yes to drugs. The maker of the code hackers love to crack -- Macrovision -- is touting the sharing and copying features of the next version of its CDS-300 copy-protection scheme when it's released in this year's fourth quarter. Those features ...
For the first time ever, the major providers of DSL broadband services garnered more new subscribers in a calendar quarter than their cable television competitors. According to figures released by the Leichtman Research Group (LRG) in Durham, New Hampshire, the top DSL providers added 895,336 net ne...
The desire to learn won't be the only thing returning with students to their universities this fall College IT departments can expect a wave of viruses, worms and other computer nasties to accompany their charges as they connect their computers to their college's networks. When many students return ...
Phishing attacks increased 19 percent in June over May, according to a report released by the Anti-Phishing Working Group. Of the 1,422 new unique attacks identified, 92 percent of them used forged, or "spoofed," e-mail addresses. To some members of the working group, that fact reveals a crying need...
In a move expected to be a stimulant for the high-speed wireless market, the Federal Communications Commission has adopted an order to restructure frequencies within one of the several bands used for wireless broadband communication. Industry insiders maintain that the order, adopted on June 10 and ...
Virus writers busily scribbled code during the first half of 2004, introducing 4,677 new viruses into the wild, a 21 percent increase over the same period last year, according to a report released by Sophos, an international maker of antivirus and antispam software. "There's a greater interest in wr...
Microsoft has formed a new Media/Entertainment & Technology Convergence Group, a move analysts say is calculated to build trust between the Redmond, Washington, technology giant and the media and entertainment industries. "Clearly Microsoft is trying to reach out to the companies that own rights...
In an apparent move to avoid the mistakes made by the recording industry in managing digital forms of its intellectual property, two movie studios have cut a deal with several major technology companies -- including Microsoft and IBM -- to develop a scheme that will allow limited copying of next-gen...
After more than 70 months without a significant drop in its share of the U.S. Web browser market, Microsoft Internet Explorer (IE) saw its hold on the mouse clicks of Web surfers slip by one percent over the last month. On the basis of a daily survey of some 30 million browsers, WebSideStory, a San ...
More than a third of the software on the world's PCs has been pirated from its makers, according to a study released yesterday by the Business Software Alliance (BSA), whose members include Adobe, Apple, Cisco Systems, IBM and Microsoft. The annual study -- this year conducted for the first time by ...
A move to help TV viewers avoid restrictions on digital broadcast signals scheduled to take effect on July 1, 2005 has been launched by the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF). The campaign is targeted at something called the "Broadcast Flag," a digital rights management scheme that the EFF maintai...
As part of its "Patent Busting Project," the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) yesterday released its "Ten Most Wanted" patents -- patents it claims pose the greatest threat to the public domain. At its web site, the EFF has posted a "wanted poster" that mimics those found on post office walls. "...
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