Date: 06/19/06     Keywords: no keywords

Scottish university says students will be carefully vetted for course in ethical hacking.

Source: http://news.zdnet.com/2100-1009_22-6085375.html

Date: 06/19/06     Keywords: no keywords

Waits for people to log on to banking sites, then tries to steal personal information by capturing keystrokes.

Source: http://news.zdnet.com/2100-1009_22-6085295.html

Date: 06/16/06     Keywords: web

Web site flaw was being exploited in a scam to pilfer sensitive information from PayPal customers.

Source: http://news.zdnet.com/2100-1009_22-6084974.html

Date: 06/16/06     Keywords: google

Portuguese-speaking users of Google's social-networking site are especially at risk from worm that aims to steal banking data.

Source: http://news.zdnet.com/2100-1009_22-6084932.html

Date: 06/16/06     Keywords: security, microsoft

'Falcon'-based consumer security products promise integrated protection to rival lineups from Symantec and Microsoft.

Source: http://news.zdnet.com/2100-1009_22-6084901.html

Date: 06/16/06     Keywords: software

At least one customer reports being target of cyberattack exploiting yet-to-be-patched hole in spreadsheet software.

Source: http://news.zdnet.com/2100-1009_22-6084738.html

Date: 06/15/06     Keywords: no keywords

Phishing and botnet threats are getting more advanced and show no sign of diminishing, despite efforts by law enforcement.

Source: http://news.zdnet.com/2100-1009_22-6084317.html

Date: 06/15/06     Keywords: software

Just a day after patches for software vulnerabilities are released, code designed to take advantage of those weaknesses appears on the Net.

Source: http://news.zdnet.com/2100-1009_22-6084000.html

Date: 06/14/06     Keywords: no keywords

Survey findings that threat-related losses are dropping seem at odds with frequent doom-and-gloom headlines.

Source: http://news.zdnet.com/2100-1009_22-6083860.html

Date: 06/14/06     Keywords: no keywords

Vulnerabilities in kernel-level Windows device drivers are scarce and tough to exploit, so there is no reason for alarm, company says.

Source: http://news.zdnet.com/2100-1009_22-6083511.html

Date: 06/13/06     Keywords: virus, antivirus

Antivirus vendor wades into the debate over the merits of open and closed code, while Red Hat takes a cautious approach.

Source: http://news.zdnet.com/2100-1009_22-6083490.html

Date: 06/13/06     Keywords: spam

An update problem temporarily halts e-mail traffic for most of the spam firewall company's customers.

Source: http://news.zdnet.com/2100-1009_22-6083474.html

Date: 06/13/06     Keywords: no keywords

All but two of the 21 Windows, Office and Exchange flaws could let an intruder run code on a compromised computer.

Source: http://news.zdnet.com/2100-1009_22-6083424.html

Date: 06/13/06     Keywords: software, security

Ben Fathi expects his engineering expertise to have a positive influence on security at the software giant.

Source: http://news.zdnet.com/2100-1009_22-6083302.html

Date: 06/12/06     Keywords: java, web, yahoo

JavaScript flaw allows worm to send itself to other Yahoo Web mail addresses when the user merely opens the e-mail.

Source: http://news.zdnet.com/2100-1009_22-6082934.html

Date: 06/12/06     Keywords: software, microsoft

Over 60 percent of PCs scanned by a Microsoft tool are infected with bot software. Rootkits, though, aren't widespread.

Source: http://news.zdnet.com/2100-1009_22-6082615.html

Date: 06/12/06     Keywords: no keywords

Bandit project will create a set of open-source components for services that use identity data in online transactions.

Source: http://news.zdnet.com/2100-1009_22-6082427.html

Date: 06/09/06     Keywords: no keywords

Junk e-mail rose in May, most of it served up from Taiwan--and the death of Blue Frog was a factor, CipherTrust says.

Source: http://news.zdnet.com/2100-1009_22-6082377.html

Date: 06/09/06     Keywords: no keywords

Antipiracy tool will reduce check-ins to biweekly, instead of after each boot-up, and will stop checking-in entirely later this year.

Source: http://news.zdnet.com/2100-1009_22-6082334.html

Date: 06/09/06     Keywords: microsoft

Repairs would require so many changes to the older OSes that it might break applications, Microsoft says.

Source: http://news.zdnet.com/2100-1009_22-6082307.html