Expectations tough to hack
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It was a sign of the times -- Michelle Wie's face on a billboard some 15 miles outside of Southern Pines, N.C. She was being used to promote the US Women's Open at nearby Pine Needles, though Wie's saga turned out to be one of the lowlights to the championship.
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And why that will be such a hard sell
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Hackers take advantage of a flaw in various Microsoft programs that leaves PCs vulnerable to remote attacks. Security experts expect the threat to grow.
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Blog: Underneath the software-as-a-service hype, large organizations have a real concern. Yup, security jitters again.
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Looks to attract companies that can't afford to equip every remote user or branch office but still want some security.
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Security researchers at South Korea's first international hacker conference rip holes in Linux and VOIP. But where are the drinking games? Quinn Norton reports from Seoul.
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Falls just shy of the magic number -- is it too much yet?
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The always provocative Brad Templeton, who hung out with a large cadre of geeks at the Internet Identity Workshop (IIW, or IIW2007) last week, has some cautions about new identity systems, even if they are all &quot;user-centric&quot;. These cautions lie in a paradox: &quot;The easier it is to give somebody ID information, the more often it will be done. And the easier it is to give ID information, the more palatable it is to ask for, or demand it.&quot; The italics are his.  Here he hits on the problem of market power asymmetries (vendors strong, customers weak) that have been with us for the whole Industrial Age, and are with us still. I think we have a way to overcome those, and that Brad's Paradox may provide exactly the conceptual hurdle we need to see before we can make progress. \
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Microsoft believes that any hacker looking to exploit this issue would have to rely on considerable help from users. The company said an attacker would need to first entice the user to visit a specific Web site and then entice them to drag ...
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The latest glitch with its flagship product shows why the company may still have trouble fulfilling its enormous expectations
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How do you protect a home network against a hackerÂs attack?
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InfoWorld - Software developers like to make installation of their programs simple and quick. So do hackers.
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By Saul Hansell  There is a lot about the way Microsoft has run its Internet business that Steve Berkowitz wants to change. But he is finding it more difficult than he expected.
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A reconfigurable handheld device could foster a community of hardware hackers.
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Things are pretty informal at this organization, and network security isn't exactly tight. So when the head finance guy needs a little work done on his network account, IT admin simply asks what his password is.
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With so much focus on security in the enterprise, it might have been inevitable. A Swiss security research lab is testing the market for zero-day vulnerabilities at an auction site called WSLabi. Security researchers stateside are skeptical.
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AS WE PREDICTED last week after a weekend free time, hackers have come up with a method of exploiting the latest hole in Microsoft Windows.