IDG News Service
Robert McMillan is a reporter for the IDG News Service.
Security guard charged with hacking hospital systems
Jul. 02, 2009
The grainy video shows a bleary-eyed young man in a hoodie inside the Carrell Clinic in Dallas, Texas. As he hits the elevator button, the theme music from Mission Impossible plays in the background. "You're on a ...
Juniper nixes ATM security talk
Jun. 30, 2009
Router maker Juniper Networks has barred one of the company's security researchers from discussing security flaws in Automated Teller Machines after an ATM maker threatened legal action.
Blind phone hacker gets 11-year sentence
Jun. 30, 2009
A Boston-area teenager was sentenced to more than 11 years in prison Friday for hacking into the telephone network and harassing the Verizon investigator who was building a case against him.
Out of business, Clear may sell customer data
Jun. 26, 2009
Three days after ceasing operations, owners of the Clear airport security screening service acknowledged that their database of sensitive customer information may end up in someone else's hands, but only if it goes to a ...
SaaS, not shopping, is focus of Symantec's new CEO
Jun. 25, 2009
CIOs think of Symantec as a company that buys its way into new markets. Over the past decade the Cupertino, California, vendor has snatched up about 30 companies as it's evolved from an antivirus and tools seller to an ...
Reporters find Northrop Grumman data in Ghana market
Jun. 24, 2009
A team of journalists investigating the global electronic waste business has unearthed a security problem too. In a Ghana market, they bought a computer hard drive containing sensitive documents belonging to U.S. ...
High profile Twitter hack spreads porn Trojan
Jun. 24, 2009
Former Apple Macintosh evangelist Guy Kawasaki [cq] posts Twitter messages about a lot of different thing, but the message he put up on Tuesday afternoon was really out of character.
Software sales drop, but Oracle beats expectations
Jun. 23, 2009
Oracle reported a 13 percent dip in new software sales Tuesday, but posted quarterly financial results that were ahead of analyst expectations.
Could Opera Unite be a botmaster's best friend?
Jun. 20, 2009
Opera has added a lot of cool new features to its upcoming Opera 10 browser, and one of them is almost sure to catch the eye of cyber criminals.
Spammers cashing in on Twitter, Iran, new iPhone
Jun. 18, 2009
Spammers are never far from a hot story, it seems, and in the past day they've been flooding Twitter with phoney messages about Iran and the latest iPhone 3.0 operating system.
In Iran, cyber-activism without the middle-man
Jun. 18, 2009
Anthony Papillion says he just wants to give Iranians a voice, but the word on Twitter these days is that he's not to be trusted.
Google to try more security on Gmail
Jun. 16, 2009
After prompting by a group of privacy advocates, Google said Tuesday that it plans to test a more secure version of its Gmail service to see if it is viable.
With unrest in Iran, cyber-attacks begin
Jun. 16, 2009
An apparently ad-hoc cyber protest against the results of recent Iranian elections has knocked key Web sites off-line.
Symantec axes GoEverywhere service
Jun. 13, 2009
Symantec's GoEverywhere online data-sharing service is going nowhere, it turns out.
HP to offer Symantec's Online Backup on PCs
Jun. 11, 2009
Hewlett-Packard will start shipping Symantec's Norton Online Backup on its notebook and PC computers.
Symantec, McAfee to pay fines over auto-renewals
Jun. 10, 2009
Antivirus vendors Symantec and McAfee have agreed to pay the New York Attorney General's office US$375,000 in fines to settle charges that they automatically charged customers software subscription renewal fees without ...
Adobe fixes security bugs in Reader, Acrobat
Jun. 10, 2009
Adobe has released critical security patches, fixing 13 bugs in its Reader and Acrobat software.
Microsoft update removes rogue antivirus program
Jun. 09, 2009
Microsoft has taken aim at a rogue antivirus program called Internet Antivirus Pro.
Web mail company to pay prize after CEO hacked
Jun. 08, 2009
A secure Web mail company that challenged hackers to break into the company's Web mail system is paying out a US$10,000 prize, just days after launching the contest.
Spam drops 15 percent after FTC Pricewert takedown
Jun. 08, 2009
The U.S. Federal Trade Commission's recent takedown of an Internet service provider thought to be a safe haven for spammers has reduced spam volumes, but only by a little.
Man made $112,000 in bank account hacking scheme
Jun. 06, 2009
A Hampton, New Hampshire, man has pleaded guilty to fraud charges for his role in a scheme to empty brokerage accounts by installing malicious Trojan horse software on victims' computers.
Microsoft pitches interoperability at JavaOne
Jun. 04, 2009
Five years after settling a bitter lawsuit with Sun Microsystems over the Java programming language, a Microsoft executive made the company's first-ever JavaOne keynote address Thursday.
Hackers claim $10,000 prize for breaking into StrongWebmail
Jun. 04, 2009
Hackers love a challenge. And more than that, they love cash.
Sun tests new Java Store, Java Warehouse
Jun. 02, 2009
Sun has opened up a test version of its Java Store, which it bills as a Web site where developers can connect with millions of computer users who run Java on their desktop.
FBI e-mail clobbered after virus
May. 29, 2009
A virus has reportedly disrupted Web-based e-mail services at the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation.
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