Date: 05/05/06     Keywords: no keywords

Attack designed to install adware on compromised computers disrupted critical communications at Seattle hospital.

Source: http://news.zdnet.com/2100-1009_22-6069238.html

Date: 05/05/06     Keywords: spyware

FTC wraps up case against Sanford Wallace with $4 million judgment and puts a halt for now to alleged spyware source Odysseus Marketing.

Source: http://news.zdnet.com/2100-1009_22-6068794.html

Date: 05/04/06     Keywords: software, security, microsoft

Microsoft's "Patch Tuesday" will include three security alerts with patches for Windows and the Exchange e-mail server software.

Source: http://news.zdnet.com/2100-1009_22-6068647.html

Date: 05/04/06     Keywords: security, hosting, spam

The DDoS attack on the antispam campaigner was redirected to blog-hosting firm Six Apart, forcing it offline, a Net security firm says.

Source: http://news.zdnet.com/2100-1009_22-6068607.html

Date: 05/04/06     Keywords: mysql, software, database, sql, security

Security patch is designed for the latest versions of MySQL's open-source database software.

Source: http://news.zdnet.com/2100-1009_22-6068514.html

Date: 05/04/06     Keywords: spam

They may've signed up for the service to stay free of unsolicited e-mail, but people in a "Do Not Intrude Registry" are getting spammed.

Source: http://news.zdnet.com/2100-1009_22-6068392.html

Date: 05/04/06     Keywords: no keywords

A large-scale attack hits TypePad and LiveJournal, blacking out a huge swath of blogs.

Source: http://news.zdnet.com/2100-1009_22-6068344.html

Date: 05/03/06     Keywords: no keywords

Government-funded project finds holes in Ethereal and X Window System that pose a risk. But fixes are available.

Source: http://news.zdnet.com/2100-1009_22-6068190.html

Date: 05/03/06     Keywords: no keywords

Commentary--Privacy expert Nancy Libin says Congress can't afford to ignore a loophole in federal privacy law.

Source: http://news.zdnet.com/2100-1009_22-6068008.html

Date: 05/03/06     Keywords: browser

Open-source browser gets tweaked just weeks after Mozilla released a large fix to address several vulnerabilities.

Source: http://news.zdnet.com/2100-1009_22-6067889.html

Date: 05/03/06     Keywords: no keywords

Signs intended for transit updates and ads are commandeered by electronic vandals--for several days running.

Source: http://news.zdnet.com/2100-1009_22-6067815.html

Date: 05/03/06     Keywords: no keywords

Days after one vulnerability is found in Internet Explorer, researchers unearth a new one.

Source: http://news.zdnet.com/2100-1009_22-6067625.html

Date: 05/02/06     Keywords: technology

The OS update won't include built-in support for SecurID, even though the technology has been under testing for two years.

Source: http://news.zdnet.com/2100-1009_22-6067477.html

Date: 05/01/06     Keywords: no keywords

Bot has the potential to infect upwards of a few tens of thousands of AIM users, according to the Sans Institute.

Source: http://news.zdnet.com/2100-1009_22-6066961.html

Date: 04/29/06     Keywords: software

Newly discovered Trojan horse threatens to delete files if victim doesn't pay $10.99 for code to disarm the malicious software.

Source: http://news.zdnet.com/2100-1009_22-6066636.html

Date: 04/29/06     Keywords: software, security

Security industry vets develop software to block attempts by bad sites to drop malicious code onto your PC as you surf.

Source: http://news.zdnet.com/2100-1009_22-6066587.html

Date: 04/28/06     Keywords: no keywords

Bond's U.K. intelligence unit posts first in series of job ads for people with "interception qualifications."

Source: http://news.zdnet.com/2100-1009_22-6066294.html

Date: 04/28/06     Keywords: no keywords

In a new twist, fraudsters are combining e-mail and spoofed phone systems to try to con people into handing over their details.

Source: http://news.zdnet.com/2100-1009_22-6066171.html

Date: 04/28/06     Keywords: no keywords

Computer containing personal information on about 38,000 members was stolen from employee's car, company says.

Source: http://news.zdnet.com/2100-1009_22-6066078.html

Date: 04/27/06     Keywords: xml

Commentary--As XML traffic grows, Reactivity's Andrew Nash says take steps now to keep it under control in the new network environment.

Source: http://news.zdnet.com/2100-1009_22-6065808.html