Ryan Naraine

Web retail giant Amazon.com is going after the flim-flam man. With e-mail spoofing described as the “hottest, and most troubling” new scam on the Internet, Amazon.com announced it had filed federal lawsuits in the U.S. and Canada to block 11 Web marketers from sending e-mails with forged senders’ addresses. The Seattle-based Amazon.com is seeking millions […]

Digital media frontrunner RealNetworks has issued a warning for a root exploit vulnerability in its Helix Universal Server 9 platform. The security flaw could potentially allow attackers to gain system access and execute arbitrary code, according to an alert from RealNetworks. Independent security consultants Secunia has tagged a ‘highly critical’ rating on the vulnerability, which […]

Federal authorities successfully thwarted a second-wave attack from the mass-mailing Sobig.F virus over the weekend by taking down 18 computer servers that were being used to distribute a malicious payload. After identifying 20 compromised server IP addresses that were being used to drop destructive code into infected machines, the FBI spent the weekend shutting down […]

The mass-mailing Sobig.F worm, which is hammering corporate networks, has falsely implicated Jupitermedia Corp. by forging e-mail headers listing admin@internet.com as the sender. “Jupitermedia Corp., publisher of the internet.com Network, is not the sender or source of this worm, but rather is a victim like many other companies. Jupitermedia has contacted law enforcement and is […]

Looking to stay viable in the face of increasing competition from Apple’s Safari browser, Norway-based Opera on Wednesday introduced a new version of its power-browser for Mac OS X 10.3. Mac OS X 10.3, codenamed Panther, is expected to debut by year-end with significant revisions to the Unix-based OS. Ahead of that release, Opera said […]

It may be a friendly worm with good intentions but the W32.Welchia.Worm squirming through corporate networks has become a nightmare for IT administrators already struggling to clean up last week’s “Blaster” virus. What’s worse, security experts say, is that the Welchia worm is using two separate vulnerabilities to infect and wreak havoc on networks around […]

Even as Microsoft is proclaiming victory in its efforts to thwart the Windows ‘Blaster’ virus, security firms are warning that several copycat worms are making the rounds, including one that installs itself on vulnerable systems and deletes the Msblast.exe worm. According to Symantec Security Response, the new W32.Welchia.Worm exploits the DCOM RPC vulnerability and looks […]

The popular Union Square Park is the latest Wi-Fi ‘hotspot’ in downtown New York City offering free wireless Internet access to visitors. The Union Square Park, located between 14th and 18th Streets and Broadway and Park Avenue, has been fitted with Wireless Access Points to create a Wi-Fi node that “will be by far the […]

The Rolling Stones, one of only a handful of big-name music acts absent from the legal digital music services, has put the majority of its songs online as part of a deal between EMI Music and RealNetworks . RealNetworks, which just closed a $36 million acquisition of Listen.com, gets a two-week exclusive window to hawk […]

The system housing the primary FTP servers for the GNU Software Project has been compromised an intruder, the Free Software Foundation (FSF) announced Thursday, warning that a Trojan horse was also found. The GNU Project, which is a clearing house for a variety of freely available open-source software, was root compromised sometime in July 2003 […]

Microsoft has battened down the hatches to prepare for an expected denial-of-service (DoS) attack on its WindowsUpdate.com security site at midnight on August 15. The DoS attack , which is being triggered by the fast-spreading ‘Blaster’ worm, could make it impossible to access the Microsoft Web site that is used to distribute security patches. Because […]

A Chicago jury has ordered software giant Microsoft to pay $521 million to the University of California and Eolas Technology for using patented technology in its flagship Internet Explorer browser. According to Bloomberg data, the award is the largest U.S. jury verdict this year. Microsoft said it would appeal the ruling in the U.S. Circuit […]