IDG News Service
Roberts is a reporter for the IDG News Service.
Vonage files to vacate patent ruling
May. 02, 2007
Internet based phone company Vonage says a recent ruling by the U.S. Supreme Court has given it new life in a crippling lawsuit with telecommunications giant Verizon.
EU clears Symantec takeover of Veritas
Mar. 16, 2005
The European Union's merger watchdog, the European Commission, has cleared security software company Symantec's $13.5 billion takeover of data storage company Veritas, it said Wednesday.
Microsoft updates code removal tool, passes on patches
Mar. 08, 2005
Microsoft released a new version of a software tool that removes infections from common computer viruses and worms, but held off from issuing and software patches Tuesday.
RealNetworks patches security holes
Mar. 03, 2005
RealNetworks has warned customers about a security vulnerability in its RealPlayer and RealOne Player software that could allow an attacker to run malicious code on a machine using a vulnerable version of the popular ...
New Bagle variant combines spam, Trojans
Mar. 01, 2005
Anti-virus software companies are warning their customers about the appearance of at least one new version of the Bagle worm that doesn't try to spread, but installs malicious remote monitoring software on systems it ...
RSA: Microsoft on 'rootkits': Be afraid. Be very afraid.
Feb. 17, 2005
Microsoft security researchers are warning about a new generation of powerful system monitoring programs, or "rootkits," that are almost impossible to detect using current security products and that could pose a serious ...
Researchers find security flaw in SHA-1 algorithm
Feb. 16, 2005
Security experts are warning that a security flaw has been found in a popular and powerful data encryption algorithm, dubbed SHA-1, by a team of scientists from Shandong University in China. The three scientists are ...
Experts: International domain names may pose threat
Feb. 07, 2005
Security experts are warning about a new threat to Web surfers: malicious Web sites that use international domain names to spoof the Web addresses of legitimate sites.
U.S. Secret Service data compromised in T-Mobile hack
Jan. 13, 2005
A malicious hacker penetrated the network of mobile phone company T-Mobile USA and accessed information on 400 of the company's customers, including sensitive information from the account of a U.S. Secret Service agent, ...
Tufts warns 106,000 alums, donors of security breach
Apr. 12, 2005
Alumni of Tufts University in Boston have been notified that personal information stored on a server used by the university for fund-raising could have been exposed to intruders.
Stolen laptops contain medical info on 185,000 patients
Apr. 08, 2005
A San Jose, Calif., medical group acknowledged that two computers stolen from the organization's offices contained sensitive information on some of the group's patients, including social security numbers and ...
Web postcards hide Trojan horse programs
Apr. 05, 2005
Beware of Web postcards bearing greetings. That's the advice from The SANS Institute's Internet Storm Center, which is warning about e-mail messages that pose as Web postcards, then direct recipients to a Web site that ...
Microsoft, Florida attorney general team on spam suits
Apr. 04, 2005
The State of Florida filed a five-count civil lawsuit against two Tampa, Fla., residents for sending more than 65,000 illegal e-mail messages and running 75 fraudulent Web sites in the last year, according to a ...
DNS pharming attacks target .com domain
Apr. 01, 2005
A new round of so-called "pharming" attacks is targeting the .com Internet domain, redirecting some Internet users who are looking for .com Web sites to Web pages controlled by the unknown attackers.
Symantec acknowledges two holes in anti-virus products
Mar. 30, 2005
Security software company Symantec acknowledged that software flaws in some of its anti-virus products could allow malicious hackers to use denial-of-service attacks to crash systems running the software, disrupting ...
Mozilla patches another Firefox hole
Mar. 23, 2005
The Mozilla Foundation issued a patch Wednesday for a previously undisclosed hole in its popular Firefox Web browser and is encouraging Firefox users to download the software update as soon as possible.
BMC buys OpenNetwork for $18 million
Mar. 23, 2005
Enterprise management software company BMC is continuing its identity-management buying spree by Wednesday announcing that it is buying OpenNetwork Technologies, a maker of Web access management and single sign-on ...
IBM releases FairUCE anti-spam technology
Mar. 22, 2005
New technology from IBM is designed to stop spam by identifying the Internet domain it came from, and can help spot online scams such as phishing attacks and e-mail spoofing.
Symantec: spam, phishing grow, botnets shrink in '04
Mar. 21, 2005
A new report released by security company Symantec found that incidents of online identity theft scams, also known as "phishing attacks," skyrocketed in the second half of 2004, as did spam and new software ...
RFID crack raises spectre of weak encryption
Mar. 17, 2005
With a little bit of technical acumen and a few hundred dollars, enterprising thieves can walk away with some late model cars and gas them up for free to boot, according to research published by computer security ...
Q&A: Holy Father says he writes rootkit for fun, profit
Mar. 16, 2005
The software developer behind a leading rootkit program says he is motivated by necessity, curiosity and a desire to expose weaknesses in the Windows operating system and security technology. He also isn't too worried ...
Companies lining up to root out rootkits
Mar. 15, 2005
Stealthy, remote system access programs called "rootkits" could fuel the next big wave of malicious code, and are already beginning to influence the design of new Internet worms and viruses, according to security ...
Man sentenced to 6 months for sending 911 virus
Mar. 14, 2005
A Louisiana man was sentenced to six months in prison for sending a malicious program using e-mail that caused Microsoft WebTV customers to call the 911 emergency service without their knowledge, according to a ...
Update: Microsoft to buy Groove Networks
Mar. 10, 2005
Microsoft is buying Groove Networks of Beverly, Mass., for an undisclosed sum, it said Thursday. Groove makes collaboration software that can be used by people who are geographically dispersed and is the brainchild of ...
Hackers breach LexisNexis, grab info on 32,000 people
Mar. 09, 2005
Hackers have compromised databases belonging to LexisNexis and stolen information on at least 32,000 people, according to a statement Wednesday from LexisNexis' parent company, Reed Elsevier PLC.
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