Invasion of the Data Snatchers
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Think your PC is safe? Think again. A new study indicates your home computer is likely bogged down with spyware, viruses and other scourges wrought by hackers and PC pranksters.
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The emergence of a new breed of USB memory sticks may be opening new avenues of attack for hackers.
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A customer filed a $54 million lawsuit against Best Buy for losing an $1100 laptop she took in for service. The reason, exposure to identity theft.  It's about time vendors were forced to recognize the value of customers' data. I recall how the chief genius at the Apple store in Emeryville complained that they would have to eat the cost of the drive in a deal they made with the manufacturer. Someday they'll have a clue that the data on most drives is worth far more than the hardware, and that their potential liability, if the data ends up in the hands of an identity thief, is also much greater.
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Three new MyDoom variants have been found in the wild that contain not only malicious code but a plea for a job. MyDoom U, V and W attempt to download a Trojan called Surila onto users&#39; computers, which would
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Anonymous data sets are an enormous boon for researchers, but the recent de-anonymization of Netflix customer data shows there are privacy risks as well. Commentary by Bruce Schneier.
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New technology could mean superfast data transfer inside the computer.
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Criminals deploy zombies herded into netwoks of a few hundred to more than half a million compromised PCs. Uses vary from the simply annoying (spam attacks) to the unsavory and criminal.
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There's a new kind of theft growing in popularity -- be careful!
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A computer security researcher figures out exactly how a high-tech scammer
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Program isn't entirely benevolent: it also downloads files to infected PCs.
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Hole could allow remote attackers to access your local search results.
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US website Monster.com suffers an online attack with the data of hundreds of thousands of users stolen.
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Thousands of credit card numbers and other personal data may have been compromised.
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I'm sorry Dave, I can't delete that Storage arrays are getting too clever for their own good, and users may need to hack into them to get through the layers of obscuring software, according to storage guru Jon Toigo, speaking at Storage Networking World in Frankfurt.â¦
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They call it scraping -- when Web companies automatically harvest information from the likes of Yahoo, Google and craigslist. Now the Internet establishment is clamping down.
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Comment is free: Mark Lawson: Anyone stupid enough to do a computer's bidding is not losing civil liberties so much as their marbles.
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Several major websites are brought down by the largest denial-of-service attacks ever staged. Compiled by Tony Long.