In the May 2008 issue of Armed Forces Journal, Col. Charles W. Williamson III wrote that "America needs a ...

Following the February 5 presidential primary, several county clerks in New Jersey asked an independent researcher to study the vote results on the state's electronic voting machines. The vendor, Sequoia, has threatened legal action, but so far hasn't taken any. Initial results suggest that there were some inconsistencies

Recent attacks on legitimate Web sites may have left some end users vulnerable. But on Monday, Check Point Software Technologies released ZoneAlarm ForceField, which might provide some with the safe surfing protection they need.

ZoneAlarm ForceField sells for $29.95 (for a single user license) or $49.95 (for a

Most people use the Web interface for Yahoo Mail, which attaches a banner of advertising on the e-mail somewhere within the message. Yahoo also provides a service, ...

Last week on my Security Bites podcast I talked with Jeremiah Grossman, CTO of WhiteHat Security, about the recent spate of SQL injections affecting Microsoft SQL.

Grossman said that if users surf to an SQL-injected site, their browsers will attempt to download a variety of exploits, not all of which ...

Correction, 3:40 p.m. PDT: This story initially misspelled Dan Kaminsky's last name.

On Friday at Microsoft's Blue Hat conference in Redmond, Wash., Alex "Kuza55" K. of SIFT challenged the software company and others to build a better Internet browser by detailing the many ways browsers fail

On Thursday, MessageLabs reported in its April Intelligence Report a marked decrease in the number of malware links connected to the Storm botnet. "It's not too often that a security company says that things are getting better," said Mark Sunner, Chief Security Analyst.

At its peak, Sunner said, the

Microsoft's Computer Online Forensic Evidence Extractor (COFEE) is available only to law enforcement.

(Credit: Microsoft)

This week, as first reported by CNET News.com, Microsoft talked publicly about COFEE, its free Computer Online Forensic Evidence Extractor. The company demonstrated the tool as part of a law enforcement conference ...

On Thursday and Friday, Microsoft will once again gather select security researchers in Redmond, Wash., for its seventh annual Blue Hat talks.

The conference, by invitation only, has gained a reputation for providing Microsoft engineers with a first-hand opportunity to hear from and question leading security researchers. There will be

Despite the threat of legal action by one voting machine vendor, Princeton University professor Ed Felten is continuing his independent investigation of perceived irregularities in New Jersey's February 5, 2008 presidential primary election. On Friday, a New Jersey state judge ruled that voting rights activists will also have the