Apple who previously sold every single song on the iTunes site for 99 cents, most with copy-protection software, has come up with a new price structure and by the end of March will drop all copy protection on the music it sells. That will allow people to use music they purchase in homemade videos, f...

There’s quite an interesting Twitter hack discussed today - that of “Don’t click” links that suddenly arrived to multiple Twitter accounts from the people they follow. Basically the hack involved updating a user’s status with a link that, when clicked, brought a user to...

Computer security is a complicated issue for me as I migrate from love to hate relationships with every antivirus software I use and from the state when I think that I have nothing to worry about even if my computer stays unprotected for a few days (for total incompatibility of the antivirus of the ...

Filed under: Computers Those tricky Nigerian scammers are at again. This time, they are impersonating people on Facebook, according to AlleyInsider, and (surprise, surprise) they're asking for money. The formula of their scam hasn't changed -- it just has a more personal twist these days. While Face...

This list highlights the biggest security incidents involving the Internet's core routing protocol, the Border Gateway Protocol. Some of these incidents were attacks; others were accidental misconfigurations. But all of them disrupted traffic to Web sites or entire networks because of incorrect rout...

Last year, there was a lot of noise about WordPress being especially vulnerable to attacks and hacks. Not all of those reported hacks and wild fire assuptions about WordPress security were true. In “SecurityFocus SQL Injection Bogus,” Matt Mullenweg talked about one false report: Online,...

SecurityFocus reports an estimated 3.5 million computers have been compromised due to a “Downadup worm,” a malicious bot that spreads through websites and blogs. The Downadup worm, a malicious program that spreads using a recently patched Windows flaw, has compromised more than 3.5 milli...

Microsoft released a huge security update, its biggest in five years, containing 28 packages of which 23 are marked “critical”. You better run the Windows Updates immediately; I am right now. There is a Firefox trojan that is trolling around stealing passwords. Read the Larry SeltzerR...

Everyone knows that hacking into an ex-employer’s computer network, shutting down the email system and deleting core files will land you in prison. Federal laws were designed to catch these types of hackers and put them away. But what about you? Have you every violated any of the dozens of fed...

Yesterday, The Heritage Foundation, a public policy think tank in Washington, DC, held a discussion titled, "Under Attack: Today's Cyber Threat." John Tkacik, Jr. and Peter Brooks of Heritage were joined by Heli Tiirmaa-Klaar, a senior adviser to the Estonian Ministry of Defense, Steve Buc...