Tim Gray

Security vendor Symantec has quietly lodged an unofficial complaint against Microsoft to European Commission antitrust regulators over the software giant’s recent entry into the security market. The complaint, which followed Microsoft announcement yesterday that it plans to expand its security protection services with the launch of two new products, could mean another round of antitrust […]

Media conglomerate Time Warner and software maker Microsoft are once again exploring the possibility of merging the MSN Internet portal with the America Online unit of Time Warner, according to The Wall Street Journal. Microsoft, which is said to have initiated the talks earlier this year, is reportedly interested in buying a big stake of […]

McAfee today announced that its Anti-virus and Vulnerability Emergency Response Team (AVERT) raised its risk assessment to “Medium” on the recently discovered W32/Sober.r, also known as Sober.r. Sober.r is a fast-moving worm that spreads via e-mail, sending itself to addresses found on the victim’s machine. The worm arrives as a ZIP file that contains an […]

UPDATED: America Online said Thursday it will buy the Internet’s leading blogging company, Weblogs, for approximately $25 million. The Santa Monica, Calif.-based Weblogs, which produces a network of Internet sites specializing in “niche” consumer and trade markets, collects 30 million monthly Web page views and 25 million monthly RSS page views per month, AOL said. […]

Following several weeks of speculation over a potentially serious flaw in its antivirus software, Kaspersky Labs has acknowledged the problem and said it plans to release a patch today. The vulnerability, made public by independent researcher Alex Wheeler, could allow a hacker to take control of the popular antivirus software by sending a specially crafted […]

UPDATED: A British computer scientist will act as a watchdog to oversee whether Microsoft is complying with last year’s European Union antitrust decision. EU officials said the EU appointed Neil Barrett, a professor at Cranfield University in Britain, to provide technical advice and monitor the software giant’s progress toward complying with the European Union’s 2004 […]

IMlogic is warning Internet users that another worm is again exploiting instant messaging technology to infect machines running Windows. The worm, dubbed IM.Treba.AIM, forwards a malicious link to known unsuspecting users listed on an infected machine’s buddy list, according to the security outfit. The threat identifies known buddies that are currently online and forwards a […]

President Bush’s recent picks for the U.S. Supreme Court may come from varied legal backgrounds, but they share at least one common experience involving technology litigation: both have been involved in settling cases against Microsoft . Harriet Miers, who Bush has called a “pit bull in size six shoes” for her legal tenacity, and was […]

A Trojan horse moving through the wild is capable of exploiting a hole in Microsoft Office and allowing attackers to override control of computers, security experts warn. The malicious code, first identified in April and also known as “Backdoor.Hesive,” is disguised as a Microsoft Access file, which, once opened infects .mdb files take advantage of […]

Phishing in California is now punishable by law after Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger signed a bill Friday making identity theft illegal. The State Senate approved Bill 355 in August, and moved it to the governor’s desk in September. The bill now makes it illegal for anyone to solicit, request or induce a consumer to provide personal […]

A consortium of big businesses, non-profit groups and universities have announced a plan to digitize hundreds of thousands of books and technical papers and make them available on the Web for almost universal access. Internet giant Yahoo is leading the literary charge — which takes aim at archrival Google’s recent attempts to digitize mountains of […]

A phishing scam is hooking Yahoo users by stealing their user names and passwords when they log into what looks like an area of the Yahoo site, according to a security firm. San Diego-based Websense said scammers send an e-mail or instant message that claims to be from a contact wanting to show off photos […]