Current News
New RFID tech would track airport passengers - RFID tags would be issued to passengers at check-in to track their movements before departure. - more info
Police blotter: Prosecutors want reporters' hard drives - Pennsylvania's attorney general demands newspaper reporters' hard drives as part of a grand-jury investigation. - more info
The future of malware: Trojan horses - Targeted attacks used for industrial espionage have become the nightmare scenario for big companies, researchers say. - more info
Windows kernel protection expected to break soon - PatchGuard, a Microsoft technology to protect Windows, will be hacked sooner rather than later, an expert predicts. - more info
Webroot expands beyond spyware niche - Partnership with Sophos lets company add antivirus to anti-spyware products as Microsoft readies Windows Vista. - more info
Security expert: User education is pointless - Most office workers can't be made to care about phishing, rootkits or spyware, he says. Other specialists disagree. - more info
Class action suit over ID theft tossed out - Acxiom, a data warehouser, had its databases looted at least twice. But judge throws out an ID-theft class action suit. - more info
Microsoft: Patches now flowing automatically - Fixes networking issues that forced people to use manual downloads to get critical patches. - more info