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  • Researchers create browser-based 'darknet'

    Two researchers for Hewlett-Packard have created a browser-based darknet, an idea that could make it easier for businesses to keep eavesdroppers from uncovering confidential information.

    News items | July 27, 2009 6:26am PDT

  • Crypto project seeks to lock down net security

    VeriSign and Icann have joined with two US government agencies to encrypt one of the fundamental internet protocols.

    News items | June 5, 2009 8:41am PDT

  • Basic transistor flaw could hobble chip design

    Researchers at the US National Institute of Science and Technology have thrown doubt on accepted rules, threatening the future of nano-scale transistors.

    News items | May 28, 2009 5:47am PDT

  • Cisco taps next-gen networks for the cloud

    Cisco has introduced a package of data center tools for carriers wishing to deliver cloud services over next-generation IP networks.

    News items | May 12, 2009 10:51am PDT

  • EC wants software makers held liable for code

    Software companies could be held responsible for the security and efficacy of their products, if a new European Commission consumer protection proposal becomes law.

    News items | May 11, 2009 4:45am PDT

  • Botnet contains 1.9 million infected computers

    Security firm Finjan traced the command-and-control server to the Ukraine by intercepting a Trojan and tracking its communications.

    News items | April 22, 2009 6:59am PDT

  • Researchers develop micro-robot

    Canadian researchers have developed a tiny flying robot which can be moved through three dimensions using electro-magnets.

    News items | April 10, 2009 6:22am PDT

  • Conficker an April Fool's joke? Maybe not

    Just because the Conficker worm didn't launch an attack on April Fools Day doesn't mean it still isn't a threat. But it did make the world painfully aware of the penalty for not keeping its...

    News items | April 2, 2009 10:46am PDT

  • Cloud Security Alliance set to launch at RSA

    An initiative will be launched at the RSA Conference that will seek to promote best practice in cloud-computing security

    News items | April 2, 2009 7:33am PDT

  • Facebook attacks UK gov't monitoring plans

    Chief privacy officer Chris Kelly says government proposals to track all social-networking traffic data would be unnecessary, impractical and possibly bad for business.

    News items | March 25, 2009 5:19am PDT

  • Brits consider tracking all UK Facebook traffic

    The British Home Officer minister proposed recording the traffic data of all UK citizens on social-networking sites, such as Facebook, MySpace and Bebo.

    News items | March 18, 2009 8:20am PDT

  • IDC: Downturn to drive Linux adoption

    IT decision-makers are planning to increase the use of server and client-side Linux due to the economic climate, analyst firm IDC has found.

    News items | March 17, 2009 7:29am PDT

  • BBC responds to botnet illegality claims

    The BBC insisted that it had no intention of breaking the law by building and using a botnet - and its actions of had been in the public interest.

    News items | March 16, 2009 1:18pm PDT

  • EC ends full-time antitrust monitoring of Microsoft

    The European Commission is scaling back its checks on whether the software maker is complying with a 2004 ruling to share interoperability information.

    News items | March 4, 2009 1:10pm PST

  • U.S. lists top 20 security controls

    Cybersecurity experts from the U.S. government are set to spark a 'complete revolution' with a list of IT security actions for organizations.

    News items | February 23, 2009 12:48pm PST

  • Researcher demonstrates SSL attack

    Moxie Marlinspike has demonstrated a man-in-the-middle attack that could allow an attacker to intercept login details for supposedly secure websites.

    News items | February 20, 2009 9:38am PST

  • Malware distributed by fake parking tickets

    The SANS Institute reports that residents of Grand Forks, North Dakota had their computers infected after visiting a Web address that was listed on phony parking tickets.

    News items | February 4, 2009 12:20pm PST

  • Panasonic to shed 15,000 jobs

    Half the layoffs are in Japan, with the rest of the cuts being made globally. The company also plans to close 27 factories worldwide

    News items | February 4, 2009 7:40am PST

  • Kyrgyzstan under cyberattack

    Central Asian country Kyrgyzstan is under cyberattack, similar to attacks launched by Russia against Estonia and Georgia.

    News items | January 29, 2009 8:50am PST

  • Cisco patches Security Manager flaw

    The company has released an out-of-cycle patch for a vulnerability that could enable a successful attack on Cisco security products.

    News items | January 22, 2009 8:47am PST

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