Tim Gray

It’s not what you know but who you know. That’s particularly true with job hunting. Social networking firm LinkedIn is hoping to capitalize on that axiom. The Mountain View, Calif., company has launched LinkedIn Jobs, a bulletin board job service where degrees of separation may be as important as degrees from universities. The idea was […]

The growing threat of phishing attacks and increased incidences of identify theft weren’t enough to keep consumers from buying online this past holiday season as e-commerce rose 88 percent, according to VeriSign’s latest Internet Security Intelligence Briefing. The fifth annual report shows the online payment service company processed $12 billion in Web sales between Nov. […]

NEW YORK — For Yahoo co-founder Jerry Yang, past is prologue as the portal/search company extends its platform to developers while looking back in order to improve personalized search. “The relevance of search is sort of the Holy Grail for any search application,” Yang said during a keynote address at Jupitermedia’s Search Engine Strategies conference […]

The Mozilla Foundation has released the latest version of its popular Firefox browser, along with a series of patches intended to prevent spoofing and phishing attacks that have caused the browser to crash. Firefox 1.0.1, addresses numerous security vulnerabilities and approximately 40 other browser fixes, according to the not-for-profit software foundation. The primary glitch, which […]

Microsoft customers and competitors have 10 days to tell the European Commission how they feel about the company’s latest efforts to comply with sanctions resulting from last year’s EU anti-trust ruling, a commission spokesman said on Friday. The commission will hear from European PC makers, retailers and IT companies next week to determine if the […]

SBC and AT&T filed merger paperwork with the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) today, initiating a government review process that will likely stretch into 2006. In addition to the FCC, the Department of Justice must approve the $16 billion combination of regional telecom and venerable long-distance company. “We believe the acquisition will bring numerous benefits to […]

UPDATED: As if the constant deluge of spam filling inboxes were not intrusive enough, a new report shows spammers are sending huge amounts of unsolicited ads through instant messaging services, a practice known as spimming. The report, conducted by the Pew Internet & American Life Project, revealed that more than one-third of the 134 million […]

Responding to pressure amid a growing PR mess after the breach of sensitive consumer data, credit-check company ChoicePoint is notifying 145,000 people to be on the guard for identity theft. The latest notices come after the company recently disclosed that an ID theft ring gained access to the company’s vital credit information. Law enforcement officials […]

Search and development startup IM2 received $8 million in first round funding this week after a January preview of FatLens, an e-commerce search engine aimed at online ticket buyers; the online event tickets category is a $2.5 billion a year industry. The IM2 technology uses a search engine to scan ticket-selling sites, as well as […]

Another MyDoom variant is back and threatening Internet users by spreading through e-mail addresses found on popular search engines, security experts said. Several security firms warn that the new worm, dubbed Mydoom.bb by McAfee , is moving through the wild by sending copies of itself using its own SMTP engine and collecting e-mail addresses from […]

The federal government has made progress in securing its computer systems since last year, but it still only earned a D-plus from Congress for its overall performance in 2004. The Federal Computer Security Report, compiled by the House Government Reform Committee and based on reports from each agency’s inspector general, suggests the country’s bureaucracy may […]

Finnish antivirus firm F-Secure has detected the first U.S. variants of the Cabir virus, which infects cell phones using the Symbian operating system. The company said the variants, Cabir.H and Cabir.I, were discovered in Santa Monica, Calif. The original virus, Cabir.A, has been spreading in the wild throughout Europe and Asia since June after its […]