Ryan Naraine

Howard Carmack, the notorious ‘Buffalo Spammer’ accused of sending more than 825 million unsolicited e-mails from illegal EarthLink accounts, has been arrested and arraigned in New York on four felony and two misdemeanor counts. New York Attorney General Eliot Spitzer heralded the case as the first criminal prosecution of a spammer under New York’s six-month-old […]

Online security firms on Monday warned of a new mass-mailing worm spreading itself via e-mail address books and the KaZaa peer-to-peer network. Symantec’s Security Response on Monday increased the threat level on the Fizzer (W32.HLLW.Fizzer@mm) virus, warning it contains a backdoor that uses mIRC to communicate with a remote attacker and keystroke-logger that records all […]

Mozilla has released the newest version of its open-source Web browser project, adding support for NTLM authentication in the 1.4b beta release. The latest beta, which comes on the heels of a major shift to make Phoenix its standalone default browser, would support communication with Microsoft Web and proxy servers configured to use Windows integrated […]

Microsoft on Thursday warned of a buffer overrun vulnerability in the way the Windows kernel passes error messages to a debugger and issued a security patch to plug the holes on Windows NT 4.0, Windows 2000 and Windows XP systems. The vulnerability alert included a warning that an intruder could use the flaw to elevate […]

Taking a note from Opera’s power-browsing capabilities, Apple Computer on Monday released a new beta of the Safari browser, adding tabbed page-switching and an AutoFill feature aimed at speeding up Web browsing. The new Safari beta, an OS X browser first released in January and based on the KDE Project’s KHTML code, will now allow […]

Enterprise IT administrators, bombarded by daily software vulnerability warnings on a daily basis, have not been serious about applying security patches despite the clear danger of worms, viruses and intruder attacks. That’s the word from online security experts who estimate that up to 50 percent of all enterprises could be sitting ducks for hacker attacks […]

Looking to add key security features to its new Customer Relationship Management (CRM) product, Microsoft has inked a deal with Network Associates to marry a customer help-desk system into its CRM software. Microsoft CRM, which targets midmarket enterprise customers, will now be integrated with Network Associates’ Magic Solutions HelpDesk IQ, a single-software system gives help-desk […]

With eyes fixed on winning developer adoption for its Web services platform, Sun Microsystems on Wednesday introduced the Sun ONE Web Services Platform Developer Edition, a package of software and tools needed to build Web services applications. Sun will formally unveil the integrated developer environment at a midday press conference where a massive price cut […]

The Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT/CC) on Monday issued an advisory for a buffer overflow vulnerability in Microsoft IIS 5.0 running on Microsoft Windows 2000, warning sysadmins that an exploit is already circulating. Microsoft issued a “critical” rating on the flaw and issued a patch while warning that the vulnerability may allow a remote attacker […]

NEW ORLEANS — Research in Motion , used the CTIA Wireless 2003 spotlight on Monday to formally unveil its ‘BlackBerry Connect’ licensing program and immediately announced deals to open its wireless e-mail gateway to the Symbian and Microsoft operating systems. RIM also scored a deal with Taiwan-based High Tech Computer (HTC), a leading OEM for […]