 Microsoft to offer free security software
(Reuters)
 Reuters - Microsoft Corp said Wednesday it will discontinue sales of its subscription PC security service and instead offer free software to help protect computers from viruses, spyware and other threats.
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I'm from Microsoft. Here's how we crush bones
(CNET)
CNET - Credit John Thompson for having impeccable timing. Of course, the timing of his resignation announcement as chief executive officer from Symantec was purely coincidental, falling just one day before Microsoft dropped an A-bomb on the antivirus security market. But better lucky than good. |
Unisys survey looks beyond cybersecurity
(CNET)
CNET - Internet security isn't a top concern among most average people, says a report released Tuesday by Unisys. What concerns most people is National Security, followed by financial worries. |
Microsoft to Replace OneCare with Thin Alternative
(PC Magazine)
PC Magazine - Microsoft said Tuesday that it will discontinue its OneCare PC protection offering next June, replacing it with a thinner, free offering, "Morro," focused solely on anti-malware protection. |
Spammers sent packing for now by Web shutdown
(AP)
AP - E-mailers, enjoy the early holiday gift: Spam volume has been cut by more than half because Internet providers pulled the plug on a Web hosting firm that was allegedly helping some of the world's most dastardly junk e-mail gangs. |
You don't know tech: The InfoWorld news quiz
(InfoWorld)
InfoWorld - Election fervor has calmed down, and the economy is melting down. Are you down with the latest in high tech? This week's quiz ranges from new Sony handsets to new Live services from Microsoft. Also: A spam-friendly ISP gets its just desserts, and Yankee Stadium gets a high-tech makeover. Correct answers are worth 10 points apiece. Ready to test your wits against our fiendish quiz master? Then let's play ball. |
New US travel security measure takes effect Jan 12
(AP)
AP - U.S. officials say Europeans and others who travel visa-free to the United States must start registering their trips electronically as part of a new online security screening process which takes effect Jan. 12, 2009. |
AVG Offers Free Subscription for Deleting Key File
(PC Magazine)
PC Magazine - Security vendor AVG said Thursday that the company will offer a free year of service, after its antivirus software misidentified a key Windows system file as malware. |
Security Alliance Slashes Spam, Closes Malware Host
(NewsFactor)
NewsFactor - The Internet is a little less jammed with spam after a cybercrime group blew the whistle on one of the biggest offenders. HostExploit, an alliance of volunteers who work at Google, McAfee and Arbor Networks, has been tracking and documenting cybercrime activity and its latest effort slashed worldwide spam by 50 percent and junk e-mail by 75 percent. |
Political And Other Hacks
(Investor's Business Daily)
Investor's Business Daily - Security: Computer systems of the McCain and Obama camps as well as the White House were hacked into during the campaign by Chinese computer hackers. Cyber-warfare is one area that should not be cut. |
AVG Antivirus Update Mistakenly Deletes System File
(NewsFactor)
NewsFactor - An update for the AVG 8 antivirus software for Windows 2000, XP and Vista released Saturday mistakenly warned that the Windows system file user32.dll was a Trojan horse. The problem affected the Dutch, French, Italian, Portuguese and Spanish versions. |
AVG update cripples some Windows XP systems
(CNET)
CNET - On Tuesday an update for AVG 8 suggested that a Windows system file is a Trojan horse, and users who delete the file form the system could leave their Windows XP systems endlessly rebooting or unable to reboot at all. |
Romanian NASA hacker gets suspended sentence
(AP)
AP - A Romanian computer programmer who hacked into computers used by the U.S. Navy, the Department of Energy and NASA has been convicted on Romanian charges and ordered to pay thousands in damages. |
VeriSign quarterly earnings beat estimates
(Reuters)
Reuters - U.S. internet security provider VeriSign Inc reported a quarterly profit that beat Wall Street expectations on the strength at its core businesses and said it was on track to meet its full-year forecast. |
Obama, McCain campaign computers hacked: Newsweek
(AFP)
 AFP - The computer systems of US presidential candidates Barack Obama and John McCain were targeted by hackers this summer from an unknown "foreign entity," Newsweek magazine reported on Thursday.
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Attacks Through Browsers Are Rising, Microsoft Says
(NewsFactor)
NewsFactor - Attacks on operating systems may be decreasing since last year, but attacks on applications, incidents of malware, and unwanted software are rising and account for 90 percent of vulnerabilities, according to the Microsoft Security Intelligence Report, released Saturday. |
Microsoft RPC exploit could be a packaged deal
(CNET)
CNET - While Microsoft has labeled Thursday's emergency patch MS08-067 as "critical" and provided a rareout-of-cycle fix because its exploit could easily be used as worm on a compromised network, one security researcher doesn't think it will happen that way. |
Penn hacker sentenced, avoids child porn charges
(AP)
AP - A federal judge questioned why a white Ivy League student found during a computer hacking probe with thousands of images of child pornography was not charged with that crime, sparing him a decade-long prison sentence that a black convicted child pornographer faced at the same hearing. |
Study: Malware risks are growing exponentially
(CNET)
CNET - A new report from security services provider ScanSafe finds that companies are at increasing risk of having employees inadvertently download backdoors and password stealers onto corporate computers from Web sites that have malicious software hidden on them. |
FBI targets rise in cybercrime from U.S. and abroad
(CNET)
CNET - WASHINGTON--The threat of cybersecurity attacks are on the rise from organized crime, terrorists, and foreign governments, an FBI official warned on Wednesday. |
