Date: 11/19/07     Keywords: google

In letter to the FTC, two senators on antitrust subcommittee raise questions about competition and consumer privacy. Two U.S. senators on the antitrust subcommittee urged the Federal Trade Commission's chairman to submit Google's purchase of advertising company DoubleClick to "serious scrutiny." In a letter to the FTC...

Source: http://news.zdnet.com/2100-9588_22-6219414.html

Date: 11/19/07     Keywords: security, virus

Several hundred sites offering free downloads of Ang Lee's steamy spy thriller are embedded with viruses, Chinese security company says. A Chinese security company has warned against free downloads of Ang Lee's steamy spy thriller, Lust, Caution, saying several hundred sites offering the movie were embedded with viruses....

Source: http://news.zdnet.com/2100-1009_22-6219272.html

Date: 11/14/07     Keywords: security, web

As part of overhaul, company will focus on Web-site naming, online security while it sells off units ranging from billing services to consulting. VeriSign, which runs the infrastructure that directs most of the world's Internet traffic, said on Wednesday it plans to divest several businesses and focus on...

Source: http://news.zdnet.com/2100-9588_22-6218409.html

Date: 11/13/07     Keywords: google

European Commission's decision to take a deeper look at the proposed merger potentially puts the $3.1 billion deal at risk. European antitrust regulators will conduct a more extensive, second-phase review of Google's pending merger with DoubleClick, the EU announced Tuesday. As part of the investigation,...

Source: http://news.zdnet.com/2100-9588_22-6218300.html

Date: 11/13/07     Keywords: microsoft

In a matter of minutes, e-crime experts hack into a Windows XP computer that is unprotected and connected to an unsecured wireless network. A Microsoft executive calls the ease with which two British e-crime specialists managed to hack into a Windows XP computer as both "enlightening and frightening."...

Source: http://news.zdnet.com/2100-1009_22-6218238.html

Date: 11/12/07     Keywords: blogging

President and co-founder Tom Anderson fields questions about selling music, presenting new artists, and finding the next hot band. During the past four years, MySpace has expanded its influence on photo- and video-sharing, blogging, and even classifieds. But it has meant a whole lot more for music. ...

Source: http://news.zdnet.com/2100-9588_22-6218045.html

Date: 11/12/07     Keywords: no keywords

In a culture that discourages direct confrontation, bullies enjoy anonymity in wireless, online worlds while their victims suffer publicly. For many Japanese children, a cell phone is a social lifeline they can't imagine being without. For high school student Makoto, it became an instrument of mental torture that...

Source: http://news.zdnet.com/2100-9588_22-6218016.html

Date: 11/10/07     Keywords: security

An Internet security consultant installed malicious code on clients' and others' machines, and may now face up to 60 years in prison. LOS ANGELES--A Los Angeles man on Friday admitted infecting 250,000 computers and stealing the identities of thousands of people by wiretapping their communications and accessing their...

Source: http://news.zdnet.com/2100-1009_22-6217956.html

Date: 11/09/07     Keywords: software, hosting

Trend Micro claims the Russian Business Network suddenly dropped off the Internet, but the group may have resurfaced in Asia. A Russian gang allegedly hosting malicious software abruptly disappeared this week, according to Trend Micro. The Russian Business Network, which allegedly was heavily involved in hosting packing...

Source: http://news.zdnet.com/2100-1009_22-6217852.html

Date: 11/08/07     Keywords: security, linux, google

Plans for Google's Android spark discussion about whether its Linux platform will prove more--or less--secure than Apple's proprietary iPhone. It wasn't long after Google announced its long-anticipated mobile plans this week that a debate emerged about the prospective security of the project's Linux-based platform. Can the...

Source: http://news.zdnet.com/2100-1035_22-6217635.html

Date: 11/08/07     Keywords: security

Security firm F-Secure has discovered 32 variants of the Trojan but says it does not mean Mac platforms are facing a malware avalanche. If Mac users thought the Trojan discovered last week was a one-off, they'll need to think again. Security firm F-Secure has discovered 32...

Source: http://news.zdnet.com/2100-1009_22-6217540.html

Date: 11/05/07     Keywords: software

Company gets a boost from strong sales of high-end systems, growth in subscription-based identity management software. Sun Microsystems reported a quarterly profit on Monday compared with a year-earlier loss amid strong sales of its high-end computers. Net income in the company's fiscal first quarter was $89 million,...

Source: http://news.zdnet.com/2100-9595_22-6217103.html

Date: 11/05/07     Keywords: security, web

Congress will soon consider new laws to better protect businesses against security breaches. Websense CEO Gene Hodges argues against a one-size-fits-all approach. Recent high-profile data breaches have brought the issue of protecting confidential information to the forefront of the security industry and the American public. ...

Source: http://news.zdnet.com/2010-1009_22-6216821.html

Date: 11/02/07     Keywords: spam

Spammer is sentenced after pleading guilty to helping send junk e-mails to more than 1.2 million America Online subscribers. A New Jersey man was sentenced to more than two years in prison on Friday for helping send spam e-mails to more than 1.2 million America Online subscribers. ...

Source: http://news.zdnet.com/2100-1009_22-6216799.html

Date: 11/02/07     Keywords: google

The search giant is outgrowing expectations, while Apple releases its Leopard into the wild. Also: Finding some privacy on the Net. Google is big and getting bigger. Google's shares traded over the $700 mark this week, marking a new first for the Internet giant. Just a...

Source: http://news.zdnet.com/2100-9595_22-6216570.html

Date: 11/01/07     Keywords: software, security

Communications equipment giant plans to swallow 57-employee security software maker by the second quarter of 2008. Cisco Systems, the largest U.S. communications equipment maker, on Thursday said it plans to buy security software maker Securent for $100 million in cash and assumed options. Privately held Securent, based...

Source: http://news.zdnet.com/2110-1035_22-6216439.html

Date: 11/01/07     Keywords: no keywords

Proposal is made after the former No. 2 at the defense ministry admitted he'd been treated to hundreds of rounds of golf by a defense contractor. Japan's government wants to use mobile phones with GPS--often used by parents to keep track of children--to keep tabs on senior defense...

Source: http://news.zdnet.com/2100-1035_22-6216426.html

Date: 11/01/07     Keywords: no keywords

Garmin's offer for digital-map maker is 15 percent higher, setting stage for bidding war. TomTom has five days to raise its bid. Digital-map company Tele Atlas has given navigation device maker TomTom five days to raise its agreed bid for the company, a day after receiving a higher...

Source: http://news.zdnet.com/2100-1035_22-6216379.html

Date: 11/01/07     Keywords: security

Company expects to spend about $1.5 billion on marketing and product development in data security. IBM is launching a "major initiative" to drive sales in the data security market, including $1.5 billion in spending next year on marketing and product development, The Wall Street Journal reported Thursday in...

Source: http://news.zdnet.com/2100-1009_22-6216370.html

Date: 10/31/07     Keywords: no keywords

Windows Vista was released to manufacturing a year ago next week, and landed on retail shelves exactly nine months ago today. To mark the occasion, I dragged a system out of mothballs and installed the original RTM version of Vista Ultimate on it. (Well, OK, I also needed a test...

Source: http://blogs.zdnet.com/Bott/?p=320