Tim Gray

Finnish antivirus firm F-Secure has detected two new fast spreading variants of the Cabir virus that infects cell phones using the Symbian operating system. The company said the new variants, Cabir.H and Cabir.I, have fixed a flaw that slowed the previous Cabir virus from spreading rapidly. The original Cabir, dubbed Cabir.A, moved only to one […]

It was a banner year for virus writers, hackers and spammers, as worms and phishing attacks rocketed to new levels and security concerns headed mainstream. This year, a teenage German boy was allegedly responsible for more than half of all computer viruses spread throughout the world and his Netsky-P virus still makes the rounds as […]

UPDATED: Less than a week after Google squashed the Santy.A worm, variants of the virus are reportedly spreading through other online search engines, including America Online and Yahoo , according to several security firms. While the early version moved rapidly by exploiting flaws in the popular phpBB discussion forum software, the latest variant is germinating […]

As Microsoft continued to investigate three recently reported vulnerabilities in multiple versions of its Windows operating system Tuesday, it delivered a message to security groups anxious to publicly report bad news: It does more harm than good. Less than a week after Chinese security group Xfocus publicly released proof-of-concept code, claiming that among other high-risk […]

Procrastinating customers paid off for Amazon.com this year, as last-minute shoppers pushed the online retailer to a record holiday sales season and helped the company achieve its single biggest day ever. The Seattle-based online retailer said it booked a single-day record when shoppers ordered more than 2.8 million items worldwide, the equivalent of 32 items […]

America Online says you’ve got less mail thanks to its ongoing battle against spammers. Despite the recent spike in spam, the company claims to have had a banner year in its fight against the scourge, which resulted in a 75 percent drop in the amount of junk mail its subscribers received, according to a survey […]

In a play to grab the attention of more Internet users, America Online began testing a Web-based e-mail service that the company hopes will compete with similar services by Yahoo , MSN and Google . The beta of the company’s revamped Web-based e-mail service, called “AOL Mail on the Web,” is currently accessible only to […]

Opera Software said the latest version of its browser has so many new bells and whistles that developers decided to skip the traditional version release and opt for a full-scale launch. “We were preparing for the 7.60 release, but as work progressed and we kept adding improvements and functionality, it became very evident that we […]

The German government hopes Wi-Fi will pave the way for safer and less congested roads, but first it is looking for a little help from the automobile industry. The country has awarded several car manufacturers grants to create a car-to-car wireless data network that could conceivably evolve into the world’s first automobile Internet. The idea […]

Santy.A might sound like some kind of holiday cheer but as thousands of Web site operators are quickly finding out, the nasty little worm is only spreading fear. Helsinki, Finland-based F-secure discovered the worm early Tuesday afternoon. Santy.A has been detected defacing Web sites by exploiting a popular program used to create Internet forums, several […]

Security software firm Trend Micro today announced it had completed a deal with Microsoft to provide virus scanning, protection and cleaning for its Hotmail Web-based e-mail service. Under the agreement, the Tokyo-based anti-virus and security software company will provide Hotmail’s 187 million users with protection whenever they send and receive e-mail attachments. The software will […]

UPDATED: A federal judge has awarded a small Midwestern Internet service provider (ISP) more than $1 billion in what may amount to be the largest single decision ever handed down against spammers. Robert Kramer, whose company, CIS International, handles 3,500 e-mail subscribers in eastern Iowa, was awarded the damages on Friday. A federal judge found […]