TechARP.com, a Malaysian Web site that nailed Vista SP1’s release-to-manufacturing (RTM) date last month as well as its release to Windows Update last week, said that Microsoft will wrap up work on XP’s third and final service pack next month. The site pegged RTM for Windows XP SP3 as “second half of April 2008″ for […]
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Google Inc, the world’s Web search leader, told U.S. Senate lawmakers on Thursday the company is pursuing new technologies to protect the privacy of Internet users as it seeks to acquire advertising company DoubleClick Inc.
Google’s chief legal officer, David Drummond, testified that the company was looking at the Internet display advertising business […]
eBay was hit with a serious security crisis this morning. Hackers posted to the Trust & Safety forum on eBay.com personal account information of 1,200 users, including phone numbers and apparent credit information.
eBay verified that the account information was accurate and said that the posts were made to appear as if they originated from the […]
The BroadWare deal, while small in dollars, highlights the rising demand for companies that make video surveillance gear. Driving that trend is the confluence of homeland security concerns in the U.S. and the spread of sophisticated security networks based on Internet technologies.
In 2006, for example, following the lead of London and other cities around the […]
The security update affects various parts of the operating system, including some third-party components such as the Kerberos authentication technology. The most serious of the vulnerabilities could allow an attacker to gain complete control over an unpatched Mac, Apple said in a security advisory.
The update deals with another trio of zero-day bugs that were disclosed […]
A hacker managed to break into a Mac and win a US$10,000 prize as part of a contest started at the CanSecWest security conference in Vancouver.
The conference organizer decided to offer the contest in part to draw attention to possible security shortcomings in Macs. “You see a lot of people running OS X saying it’s […]