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A line of USB drives sold by Sony Electronics installs files in a hidden folder that can be accessed by hackers, a Finnish security company charged Monday, raising the specter of a replay of the fiasco that hit Sony's music arm two years ago. read more »
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Attackers used a SQL injection attack to deface the United Nations web page containing speeches by its Secretary-General, Ban Ki-Moon.A message criticizing the US and Israel replaced the 'Latest Speeches' box on the now-fixed Secretary-General's pag read more »
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While feedback on Sun's blog was mainly negative after Jonathan Schwartz announced that Sun would be changing its ticker symbol from SUNW to JAVA, a few people approved. read more »
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Criminals using PDFs as a way to slip spam and Trojans to email recipients may be backing off their once-heavy usage of the PDF to do so.Either the spammers are taking a break, or they have abandoned PDF spam as an attack vector.

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Blogs aren't new. Blogs are BIG! Check out this tasty morsel... read more »
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Posted by Alexander Wolfe , Sep 1, 2007 12:00 PM It's always interesting how projects never turn out quite the way you expect them to. read more »
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The multi-platform password cracker Ophcrack is incredibly fast. How fast? It can crack the password "Fgpyyih804423" in 160 seconds. Most people would consider that password fairly secure. The Microsoft password strength checker rates it "strong". read more »
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Competition on the web is fierce and getting more ruthless by the day. Some webmasters have resorted to using dirty tricks to sabotage competing websites. read more »
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One of the stranger customs in technology public relations is sending random tchotchkes to accompany a press release. read more »
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In a recent blog posting, a German operator of a Tor anonymous proxy server revealed that he was arrested by German police officers at the end of July. Although he was released shortly afterwards, information about the arrest had been kept quiet unt read more »
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Roughly four percent of all spam, malicious software attacks, phishing Web sites and other cyber crime activities detected in the first half of 2007 emanated from the networks controlled by the world's 100 ... read more »
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Jonas Jacobi's JSF/Ajax and Trinidad Blog I recognize that my blog has been quiet for some time, but there is a reason: Kaazing Corporation. read more »
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Intego has released FileGuard X4 , a data protection program that stores sensitive files in encrypted packets. read more »
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Intego, the Macintosh security specialist, today announced the publication of a new blog focusing on Macintosh and Internet security. read more »
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That component, called Writeprint, helps combat the Web's anonymity by studying thousands of lingual, structural and semantic features in online postings. With 95 percent certainty, it can attribute multiple postings to a single author. read more »
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The Recording Industry Association of America thinks Jammie Thomas of Minnesota is Tereastarr, and liable for perhaps millions of dollars in damages in the nation's first RIAA copyright case to go to trial ... read more »
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Jurors hearing the nation's first illegal pirating civil litigation case brought to trial here Tuesday were confronted with more than just mulling whether to hold a single mother of two liable for copyright ... read more »
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See story The former chief executive of Dutch retailer Royal Ahold , the owner of Giant Food and former owner of U.S. Foodservice in Columbia, will pay the company $7 million to settle claims stemming from a ... read more »
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Having antivirus software installed on a system is not the same as having an updated antivirus solution in place; surprisingly, some people don't understand the difference.The influx of non-techie users into the online world has been both boon and b read more »
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SmallBizResource Blog -- Networking & Communications Posted by Judy Mottl Tuesday, Oct 9, 2007, 07:07 A