Ryan Naraine

A potentially serious security flaw found in Web-based e-mail services offered by Microsoft and Yahoo could put millions of PCs at risk of takeover, an Internet security research firm warned Tuesday. Israel-based security consultants GreyMagic issued the advisory with a chilling warning that attackers could inject malicious code by simply sending an e-mail to an […]

Malicious code to exploit a component of the Microsoft Windows ASN.1 vulnerability is circulating, prompting security experts to issue a chilling warning: a Blaster-type virus attack is imminent. The exploit code, specifically created to target a buffer overflow flaw in Microsoft’s implementation of the Abstract Syntax Notation 1 (ASN.1) data standard could cause immediate denial-of-service […]

Online security experts are increasing the threat level on a fast-spreading e-mail virus capable of allowing an attacker to upload and execute malicious code on infected computers. The mass-mailing W32/BAGLE-A worm, also known as Bagle or Beagle, includes a backdoor component which listens on TCP port 6777 and lets an attacker execute arbitrary programs on […]

Microsoft said it would appeal a federal court ruling that upheld a prior, $521 million patent infringement judgment against the software giant over technology it uses in the popular Internet Explorer (IE) browser. Judge James Zagel’s ruling in a Chicago federal court Wednesday upheld an August jury decision that found Microsoft guilty of infringing the […]

Thanks to a never-ending supply of sharp minds and energy in the information technology industry, innovation will keep on marching ahead in 2004 — good economy or bad. (But a good economy sure helps.) Editors from internetnews.com and across Jupitermedia have compiled a list of ideas/trends/innovations to watch in 2004. BitTorrent – The Next Wave […]

In partnership with Microsoft , New York Attorney General Eliot Spitzer on Thursday announced a massive legal offensive against a spam network allegedly responsible for sending more than 250 million junk e-mails daily. Spitzer filed a $20 million lawsuit against a New York-based spam ring allegedly led by Scott Richter, president of e-mail marketing firm […]

NEW YORK – New York City’s chief information officer Gino Menchini has a firm warning to the online security industry: Cybersecurity threats go well beyond the enterprise. In a keynote address at the InfoSecurity conference here, Menchini issued a call for the security industry to move beyond responding to an enterprise-only event and address the […]

After years of railing against the inadequacies of the Linux operating system, embedded software powerhouse Wind River Systems on Monday did an about-face, joining two big-name open source groups — the Open Source Development Labs (OSDL) and the Eclipse Consortium. Wind River will participate in the OSDL’s Carrier Grade Linux (CGL) Working Group, a move […]

Internet security breaches and fraud attempts have outpaced the “impressive” growth of Internet usage with the U.S. being the biggest target by attackers, according to statistics released by Verisign. Verisign, which markets digital commerce and communication products and services to enterprise clients, reported that the number of security events per device it managed increased by […]

Just weeks after the ballyhooed launch of the next generation Microsoft Office software suite, the software giant issued a ‘critical’ update to fix problems in the Powerpoint, Word and Excel products. The problems were discovered in Microsoft Office 2003, which was released on October 21 as the biggest upgrade for the personal productivity desktop software […]