Ryan Naraine

A Web developer’s attempt to create customized RSS feeds from the popular Google News portal has run afoul of the search technology powerhouse. Google issued a cease-and-desist order against British programmer Julian Bond with a warning that the creation of a news feed from the results of Google News was against its terms of reference. […]

Microsoft boss Bill Gates on Wednesday issued a software security progress report, highlighting “significant investments” in four key areas. In an executive e-mail to customers, Gates promised the software giant would continue to spend heavily on isolation and resiliency, software updating, software quality and authentication and access control. “Malicious software code has been around for […]

Anti-virus experts on Monday warned of a new strain of the Netsky virus that has been programmed to launch denial-of-service attacks on several file-sharing networks. Netsky-R (W32/Netsky-R), the latest mutant of the pesky virus which started barreling through e-mail networks in early March, copies itself to an infected system’s Windows folder as an executable file. […]

The release of a hacking toolkit to exploit security holes in several Cisco products has sent the networking giant scrambling to announce patches and workarounds. The San Jose, Calif., company confirmed malicious hackers were circulating code that could be used to run denial-of-service attacks against multiple products in an advisory. “Customers should take steps to […]

Looking to stave off aggressive competition from rivals such as Yahoo and Microsoft , search technology powerhouse Google has started testing a personalized Web search feature that delivers custom results based on a user’s preferences. The new Google Personalized feature, which it unveiled from its in-house lab Monday, lets Web searchers check boxes in order […]

Plumtree Software , a fixture on the corporate portal applications scene, announced a deal Monday to integrate the Yahoo Messenger instant messaging application into its Enterprise Web infrastructure platform. The arrangement is aimed at speeding official adoption of IM in the workplace by giving developers tools to help incorporate them into their own application development […]

Digital media delivery firm RealNetworks on Friday confirmed a buffer overflow vulnerability in its Helix Universal Server product, warning that a root exploit could give an attacker “inappropriate access” to compromised system. RealNetworks first warned of the flaw in January this year, describing it as a simple denial-of-service issue but, on Friday, the company released […]

Weblog tools vendor Six Apart is in the latter stages of plans to roll out an open online authentication system to thwart comment spammers. Not much is known about the new

A potentially serious security flaw found in Web-based e-mail services offered by Microsoft and Yahoo could put millions of PCs at risk of takeover, an Internet security research firm warned Tuesday. Israel-based security consultants GreyMagic issued the advisory with a chilling warning that attackers could inject malicious code by simply sending an e-mail to an […]

The U.S. Secret Service has arrested and charged a Southern California man for allegedly creating software code to register fraudulent clicks on Google’s AdSense program and attempting to extort money from the search giant. The case centers around a program called “Google Clique,” which was allegedly written by 32-year-old Michael Anthony Bradley to surf and […]

When malicious virus writers unleashed the MyDoom virus in late January, they attached a dangerous backdoor on infected PCs that left certain TCP ports open for future attacks. The result? A string of mutants attacking millions of PCs worldwide, snarling network traffic and driving network administrators and end-users to new levels of frustration — not […]

The Apache-backed PHP Group is rolling out the first Release Candidate of PHP 5, an upgrade to the programming language that adds built-in SOAP extensions for Web Services interoperability. Released Friday, the RC1 beta is a significant milestone for the open source PHP programming language, which ships standard with a number of Web servers. The […]