Ryan Naraine

Anti-virus vendors on Monday issued upgraded threat warnings for a mutant of the W32/Sober-C worm now squirming its way through e-mail in-boxes. The W32/Sober worm, a mass-mailer which also spreads via file-sharing on P2P networks, has added a bilingual element and arrives with a range of attachment filenames — EXE, SCR, PIF, COM, CMD or […]

An open source and freeware outfit on Friday issued a patch for a URL-spoofing security hole in Microsoft’s Internet Explorer browser but developers are warning that the patch has some problems of its own. Just hours after OpenWares posted its IE patch, techies noticed the OpenWares fix contained a buffer overflow vulnerability and a mechanism […]

In partnership with Microsoft , New York Attorney General Eliot Spitzer on Thursday announced a massive legal offensive against a spam network allegedly responsible for sending more than 250 million junk e-mails daily. Spitzer filed a $20 million lawsuit against a New York-based spam ring allegedly led by Scott Richter, president of e-mail marketing firm […]

VeriSign’s aggressive push into the managed-security services (MSS) industry took another step forward with the announcement of a $140 million deal to acquire privately held Guardent. VeriSign, a Mountain View, Calif., firm best known for its digital commerce and communication products and services, said Guardent’s MSS and consulting offerings will be folded into its security […]

Microsoft’s soon-to-be-released service pack for Windows XP will come with a major security-centric overhaul to the company’s flagship Internet Explorer browser, including a new add-on management and crash detection tool and several modifications to the browser’s default security settings. According to a document spelling out the implications of the XP changes for developers, Microsoft said […]

Technology heavyweights IBM and Microsoft have released fixes for a potentially serious vulnerability in various Web Services products that could be exploited to trigger denial-of-service attacks . In separate alerts, the companies said the vulnerability was caused by an error in the XML parser when parsing the DTD (Document Type Definition) part of XML documents. […]

Microsoft is expected to roll out a service pack for Windows XP early next week that is chock full of security-related goodies for Windows customers. But customers running Windows 2000 are not expected to see a similar package. As previously reported, the software giant will unveil a security makeover to XP’s embedded Internet Connection Firewall […]

Search technology giant Google has quietly rolled out a new Web search feature that lets users track FedEx and UPS packages as part of its continuing push to expand beyond basic keyword queries. The addition of numbers tracking adds to the nifty features the Mountain View, Calif.-based firm has added in recent months, including glossary […]

On the heels of an announcement from Microsoft that it won’t be issuing December security patches under the new monthly release cycle, a security researcher has gone public with a new Internet Explorer vulnerability that could be used by ‘phishers’ to perpetuate on line fraud. The latest IE flaw carries a ‘moderately critical’ rating and […]

NEW YORK – New York City’s chief information officer Gino Menchini has a firm warning to the online security industry: Cybersecurity threats go well beyond the enterprise. In a keynote address at the InfoSecurity conference here, Menchini issued a call for the security industry to move beyond responding to an enterprise-only event and address the […]

US Airways , the country’s seventh-largest airline, has yanked its tickets and reservations from Barry Diller’s Expedia.com travel site in a public quarrel over increased booking fees. The Arlington, Va.-based airline announced the move in a strongly-worded statement Monday, accusing Expedia of jacking up booking fees suddenly over the Thanksgiving holiday by as much at […]

PayPal wants a slice of the online music pie. The eBay-owned online payments platform on Monday announced it would offer reduced fees for merchants as part of a new micropayments pricing strategy created exclusively for the red-hot digital music sector. Looking to lure online music services into offering the PayPal platform as a payment option […]