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Trend Micro has warned that attackers are already exploiting a bug in IE 7 that was patched by Microsoft in the Security update last week with critical status. Trend Micro researchers have spotted a small-scale...
Sweden's public prosecutor Hakan Roswall plans to charge the Pirate Bay's organizers with accessory and conspiracy to break copyright law, which could lead to fines or up to two years in prison. The charges will...
Dell (NSDQ:Dell) wants its piece of the fast-growing blade server market, and is introducing a new blade server line and channel training and certification to make it happen. Dell, Round Rock, Texas, on Monday unveiled...
If application security has to be baked into the development process, source code analysis tools are the technological equivalent of oven mitts—making their providers natural targets for acquisition, some analysts predicted. "There's a lot...
A US-based security researcher has published a single piece of code that can remotely compromise both PCs and Macs as long as they are running Apple's QuickTime media player. The exploit is at least the...
Security vendor Intego claims to have found a new trojan attack that targets Apple's OS X operating system but competing security firms (McAfee, Symantec, and Trend Micro) have yet to find samples of the trojan....
A security researcher has published a proof-of-concept exploit for a known vulnerability in Adobe Reader. The researcher, known only as 'Cyanid-E', unveiled his creation in a posting to the Full Disclosure security mailing list on...
RealNetworks has entered into an agreement to acquire Game Trust, a casual-gaming company based in New York, with plans to add Game Trust's community and commerce capabilities to the technology platform currently on offer to...
"The significance of this ruling for the [European] commission is that we have been reinforced and confirmed in our approach in putting consumers before innovation and research and we have been supported in our interpretation...
Intel has unveiled its new 7300 and 7200 series Xeon processors as well as its new 7300 chipset today at a launch event in San Francisco. Previously known by their Tigerton and Clarksboro codenames, respectively,...
Would-be iPhone owners are being targeted by a 7,500-strong zombie botnet, security experts have warned. PandaLabs said that buying an iPhone online could cost surfers a lot more than the advertised price if their computers...
Virgin Media, the UK's leading cable television company, is set to be taken private for more than £5.5bn. Carlyle, one of the world's leading private equity groups, has made a preliminary offer of between...
Toshiba are to cut the estimated year end estimated sales of HD-DVD players by 44% it has emerged, lowering sales expectations from 1.8million standalone devices to 1 million in the US. Speaking about the impact...
Chinese PCs running Symantec antivirus software have been incapacitated by a faulty virus signature update delivered automatically to users on Friday about 1:00 a.m. Beijing time. Symantec's antivirus scanning engine mistook two critical system files...
Researchers from security vendor Sophos say a new worm targeting removable drives, called the SillyFD-AA worm, searches for removable drives such as floppy disks and USB memory sticks and creates a hidden autorun.inf file which...
Microsoft on Monday said that it is taking action against groups that sold copies of Windows and Office discounted for academic use to regular users. The Redmond, Wash., software maker has filed nine lawsuits and...
Popular photo-sharing site Flickr has announced plans to launch a version in traditional Chinese characters, initially targeting users in Hong Kong. The move from Yahoo-owned Flickr is part of its attempts to localise and increase...
Security experts are warning of a spam e-mails regarding a phishing attack targeting gamblers on the PartyPoker website, the world's largest online poker site. The e-mail warns of news about 'legislation' affecting online poker players,...
A new search engine, Cranky.com, was launched earlier this week and plans to profit from age-specific ads by targeting the 50-year-old-plus baby boomer. The man behind the site is Jeff Taylor, known for founding the...
ATI will target AMD's Socket AM2+ interconnect with its RD790 chipset - a part with the abiility to host four graphics cards, allegedly leaked company roadmap slides reveal. Socket AM2+ is expected to debut in...
VIA Technologies on September 13 announced its VIA C7-D processor for desktop PCs, with a power consumption of 20 watts at 1.8GHz. The company claims the power savings from using the processor will reduce carbon...
An unpatched Microsoft Word 2000 vulnerability is being actively exploited by hackers to spread malware. The MDropper-Q Trojan downloader, recently detected by Symantec, takes advantage of the unspecified zero-day vuln to load other malware onto...
Microsoft on Tuesday launched a legal campaign against parties that register Web addresses designed to attract visitors by using trademarked terms and common misspellings of more popular domains. The software giant filed three lawsuits this...
Intel will introduce its quad-core desktop processor series, codenamed "Kentsfield," in the fourth quarter of 2006, instead of the first quarter of 2007 as originally scheduled, Taiwan motherboard makers noted. The unit price of the...
The world's main supplier of microprocessors, Intel Corp., plans to offer a central processing unit for servers, which will be 15 times faster compared to today's chips and which will contain up to 32 processing...
Computer users who have not upgraded to the latest version of Mozilla's Firefox browser may now have an extra incentive to do so, thanks to a hacker who has posted an exploit. On Sunday, a...
McAfee is reporting an outbreak of a new worm that affects Windows 2000 and pre Windows XP SP2 users. The worm creates 16 threads to scan for infectable systems. The worm targets...
Looking to cash in on the growing buzz around PC-to-PC voice over IP services, Yahoo on Wednesday added voice calling capabilities to a new beta of its instant messaging client. The Yahoo Messenger makeover puts...
Continuing its war on Internet file-swapping sites, the Motion Picture Association of America said Thursday that it has filed lawsuits against a half-dozen hubs for TV show trading. The trade association said that...
Texas Instruments Incorporated announced that it is working with Microsoft on future versions of the Windows Mobile-based Portable Media Center Software Kit, which will enable manufacturers to develop Portable Media Centers with TI hardware. The...
Brad Pitt, Angelina Jolie and Britney Spears are the subjects of a virus scam that is attempting to recruit computers for a denial-of-service attack on Microsoft. Hackers have released a self-spreading worm,...
The Motion Picture Association of America launched a new legal campaign Tuesday targeting the BitTorrent and eDonkey file-swapping networks, two technologies widely used to trade movies online. Ratcheting up its previous online...
Ubisoft and Tom Clancy continued their proliferation today when the company announced the fourth installment of Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six will be available for the PC, Xbox, and PlayStation 2 next spring. The title is...
Microsoft Targets Windows XP Counterfeiters With Pioneering Product Replacement Offer In response to the discovery of high quality counterfeit versions of Microsoft Windows(r) XP, Microsoft announced today the start of its Windows...
The ubiquitous banner ad has become the latest delivery mechanism for exploit code targeting a known flaw in Microsoft Corp.'s Internet Explorer browser. During a 12-hour window over the weekend, hackers broke into a load...
IT security experts have intercepted the latest mutant Zafi virus, dubbed Zafi-C, which targets the Google and Microsoft websites. It also attempts to knock out the website of the newly appointed Hungarian prime minister. The...
It took them sometime, but virus writers have released the first 64-bit Windows virus. This one of a kind virus targets Microsoft's yet to be released Windows 64-bit operating system. This virus, dubbed W64.Shruggle...
Samsung has begun shifting memory production to a 90nm process, even as rival DRAM maker Infineon agreed to provide Winbond with its 90nm technology. The South Korean giant revealed last month that it...
Opera is adding new features to make its browser more similar to Microsoft's Internet Explorer. The most noticeable new feature is the new skin which is similar to IE. Opera Software...
