By Jeremy Kirk, IDG News Service\London Bureau 23 Jul, 2008
A Romanian man pleaded guilty Tuesday to a federal fraud charge for his role in setting up fake Web sites in order to steal credit and debit card details. read more »
By Jeremy Kirk, IDG News Service\London Bureau 23 Jul, 2008
The latest survey from security vendor McAfee has found that small to medium-size businesses in North America and Europe wrongly conclude their revenue is too low to draw the attention of cybercriminals. read more »
By Robert McMillan, IDG News Service\San Francisco Bureau 23 Jul, 2008
One day after a security company accidentally posted details of a serious flaw in the Internet's Domain Name System (DNS), hackers are saying that software that exploits this flaw is sure to pop up soon. read more »
The researcher whose speculation led to an early disclosure of information about a critical flaw in the Domain Name System (DNS), the Internet's traffic cop, wasn't the first to come close to the truth, said the security expert who found the bug and organized a massive patching effort. read more »
By Gregg Keizer, Computerworld (US online) 22 Jul, 2008
Seven months after it first acknowledged a data corruption bug in Windows Home Server (WHS), Microsoft Corp. Monday officially released a patch as it rolled out the final version of a major update to the server software. read more »
By Jeremy Kirk, IDG News Service\London Bureau 22 Jul, 2008
The defacement of one of Kaspersky Lab's partner Web sites over the weekend occurred while the site was under construction and offered no data to steal, a senior company official said Tuesday. read more »
Apple Inc. installed a control panel applet for its MobileMe online sync and storage service on Windows XP and Windows Vista systems when they were updated to iTunes 7.7 -- the second time this year that it's bundled new software with an update for an existing program. read more »
By Robert McMillan, IDG News Service\San Francisco Bureau 22 Jul, 2008
A computer security company on Monday inadvertently published details of a major flaw in the Internet's Domain Name System (DNS) several weeks before they were due to be disclosed. read more »
By Brenda Zulu, IDG News Service\Lusaka Bureau 21 Jul, 2008
African countries need to make better use of ICT in order to do a better job of managing both natural and man-made disasters, according to a cross section of political and technology officials speaking at an International Telecommunications Union forum in Lusaka last week. read more »
Open source software is a significant security risk for corporations that use it because in many cases, the open source community fails to adhere to minimal security best practices, according a study released Monday. read more »
In Johannesburg (or Jozi), street lights work and are obeyed; the computerized system has cracked down on all errant motorist until they have all towed the line. I even commented to a friend that we need such a computerized system in Kenya, but we have to get rid of the thugs who carjack motorists at night before we can obey lights at night. read more »
