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Week in review: Microhoo, Yahoogle, and Microspace, oh my!

April 11, 2008 10:41 PM PDT

The week was marked by a dizzying barrage of news on the future of Yahoo and its suitors, leaving industry watchers mostly scratching their heads. Also, RSA 2008.
(By CNET News.com's Michelle Meyers)

Microsoft: Vista feature designed to 'annoy users'

April 11, 2008 7:01 PM PDT

By way of the User Account Control feature, company set out to force independent software vendors to make their code more secure, says manager.

Will security become Facebook's Achilles' heel?

February 23, 2008 2:16 PM PST

Aaron Greenspan warns that Facebook is sacrificing user privacy on the altar of hyper growth.

Microsoft: Vista SP1 will break these programs

February 21, 2008 6:46 PM PST

List of applications affected by service pack installation include Trend Micro's Internet Security 2008 and the Times Reader.

EC plans biometric border checks

February 15, 2008 1:40 PM PST

European Commission proposed biometric checks include face screening and automated security checks.

Going back to school on security

February 13, 2008 12:31 PM PST

Internet attorney Eric J. Sinrod finds that educational institutions have been anything but smart about preventing security breaches.

The legislation behind a national ID

February 5, 2008 12:25 AM PST

Federal regulations creating a uniform national ID card are looming. Read the full text of the relevant section of the law.

Security perimeter? What security perimeter?

January 31, 2008 12:00 PM PST

In the fight against security breaches, PGP Chief Executive Phil Dunkelberger cautions that encryption by itself is not the answer.

Why Real ID is a flawed law

February 1, 2008 6:25 PM PST

Internet attorney Sophia Cope says the act will do more harm than good and the better idea is for Congress to revisit the fundamentally flawed law.

Secunia: CA backup product 'inherently insecure'

January 16, 2008 6:49 PM PST

In annual report on security flaws, vulnerability-testing company strongly criticizes CA's ARCserve Backup product, as well as Symantec Mail Security.

Open-source security moves to next step

January 11, 2008 5:35 PM PST

Eleven projects are certified as secure in government-backed initiative led by source code analysis specialist Coverity.

If you thought 'Security '07' was hairy, just wait

January 3, 2008 12:00 PM PST

Jon Oltsik says 2008 will bring a new cluster of headlines about information security and the workplace.

Year in review: Botnet gains, Web 2.0 pains

December 31, 2007 12:00 PM PST

As the Storm worm raged, tapping countless PCs for nefarious ends, the rush to online applications left many Web sites vulnerable.

U.K. government loses pensioner data

December 19, 2007 4:07 PM PST

Department responsible for collecting taxes, administering other services, admits another data loss.

U.K. government loses data on driving-test candidates

December 18, 2007 5:15 PM PST

Hard disk containing details on 3 million candidates goes missing at facility run by contractor for the Driving Standards Agency.

China link suspected in lab hacking

December 9, 2007 5:27 PM PST

A cyber attack reported last week by one of the federal governments nuclear weapons laboratories may have originated in China, according to a memorandum.
The New York Times

When more bugs can mean tighter security

December 7, 2007 10:09 PM PST

Mozilla Europe president explains why having fewer disclosed vulnerabilities doesn't mean Internet Explorer is safer than the open-source Web browser.

Researchers hack Microsoft wireless keyboards

December 5, 2007 11:28 PM PST

Security experts claim to have cracked the protocol for securing some of Microsoft's wireless keyboards, potentially allowing keystroke logging.

The next generation of security threats

December 5, 2007 12:13 PM PST

Forget widespread worms. Nowadays, limited-scale threats like targeted e-mail attacks are causing the most concern.

Google calls for users to report malicious sites

December 4, 2007 5:08 PM PST

The search giant is asking people to fill in an online form reporting malicious sites that are not already flagged.