Security

Should your credit report disqualify you for a job?

FTC settles with two companies charged with violating provisions oaf the Fair Credit Reporting Act

Another denial-of-service attack fells Twitter

Service restored after about a half-hour; company says it's investigating

VMware’s purchase of SpringSource could help cloud security

Study: Adobe Flash cookies pose vexing privacy questions

Users can still be tracked even if they delete their HTTP cookies since Adobe's Flash plug-in stores data

Cloud computing, compliance raise questions

* Concerns raised at Catalyst Conference still unaddressed by current products.

Attacks on US, Korea Web sites leave a winding trail

Investigators are chasing IP addresses and collecting human intelligence to nab perpetrators

Enterprises have false sense of data security

Microsoft fixes 19 bugs in big patch smorgasbord

Patches several parts in Windows affected by development code flaw

Patch Tuesday: What the experts are saying

Here's what experts are saying about the flood of Microsoft patches

Microsoft patches 19 bugs in sweeping security update

Fixes software affected by its own development code bug, plugs holes already exploited