Computer Security News

A claim of a software vulnerability in a program used to connect securely to servers across the Internet is likely a hoax, according to an analyst with the SANS Internet Storm Center.

The publisher of the News of the World has denied its reporters hacked into the phones of hundreds of public figures.

Climbing into his Volvo, outfitted with a Matrics antenna and a Motorola reader he'd bought on eBay for $190, Chris Paget cruised the streets of San Francisco with this objective: To read the identity cards of strangers, wirelessly, without ever leaving his car.

The newest trend in Internet fraud is "vacation hacking," a sinister sort of tourist trap.

By Anne d'Innocenzio In a bid to get its customers to go beyond necessities like apples and detergent, Wal-Mart is launching a new fashion line with teen star Miley Cyrus and BCBG designer Max Azria for the critical back-to-school shopping season.

Microsoft has warned about a serious computer security vulnerability. The vulnerability has been disclosed for Internet Explorer users whose computers run the Windows XP or Windows Server 2003 operating software.

There's no guarantee Albertans' computerized personal health records can be kept confidential, admits provincial privacy commissioner Frank Work.

Celebrities and politicians who have had their mobile phones hacked by a British tabloid can sue for invasion of privacy but are unikely to get much money in damages, a leading media lawyer said Friday.

They say what goes around comes around and on Friday owners of bot-infested PCs in South Korea will discover that's true.

Computer networks in the tiny Baltic country of Estonia were disabled two years ago in a cyberattack similar to the one that knocked out Web sites in South Korea and the U.S. on Wednesday.

Key South Korean governmental and private Web sites were targeted Thursday by a third round of cyber attacks, government and industry officials say.

British police say there will no new investigation into allegations that journalists from a tabloid newspaper illegally hacked into the mobile phones of hundreds of celebrities and politicians.

Security:- Thousands of Albertans are being warned their personal and private medical information may have been seriously compromised.

RUPERT MURDOCH'S News Group newspapers in Britain have paid out more than 1 million to settle legal cases that threatened to reveal evidence of his journalists' repeated involvement in the use of criminal methods to get stories.

Check Point A Software Technologies Ltd. , the worldwide leader in securing the Internet, today announced that ZoneAlarm A ForceField technology, included in ZoneAlarm Extreme Security, protects consumers against newly discovered drive-by attacks associated with Microsoft DirectShow Video ActiveX Control vulnerability.

Newspaper chiefs are to be summoned by the chairman of an influential Commons committee to answer "serious questions" following fresh claims about the use of phone taps.

Investigators are piecing together details about one of the most aggressive computer attacks in recent memory - a powerful "denial-of-service" assault that overwhelmed computers at U.S. and South Korean government agencies, companies and institutions, in some cases for days.

A look at some known international cyber attacks in recent years: _In April, a former U.S. government official said that spies had hacked into the U.S. electric grid and left behind computer programs that would let them disrupt service, though it was not clear when the breach occurred.

The powerful attack that overwhelmed computers at U.S. and South Korean government agencies for days was even broader than realized, also targeting the White House, the Pentagon and the New York Stock Exchange.

Suspected cyber attacks paralyzed Web sites of major South Korean government agencies, banks and Internet sites in a barrage that appeared linked to similar attacks in the U.S.