Cybercrooks who rig Web sites to break into PCs are getting better at hiding their malicious code, a security expert said Wednesday. Increasingly the actual code, often JavaScript, used to attack PCs is hidden in Flash animations or scrambled so that anyone who examines the source of a page can’t easily identify it, [...]

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Complexity in rootkits is growing at a phenomenal rate, allowing malicious software to burrow deep and potentially go undetected inside Microsoft’s Windows platform, according to a security report released Wednesday by McAfee.
Rootkits–malicious software that operates in a stealth fashion by hiding its files, processes and registry keys–have grown over the past five years [...]

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MySpace is going into the news business with a service that will scour the internet for news stories and let users vote on which ones receive the most exposure.
This approach blends elements of Google News and sites such as Digg and Netscape, which rely on readers to submit stories and determine [...]

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Taxpayers who couldn’t electronically file 11th-hour returns using Intuit Inc.’s TurboTax, ProSeries and other software won’t be penalized for delays caused by the company’s overtaxed servers, the IRS said Wednesday.
“We will do everything we can to assist taxpayers affected by the situation,” said IRS spokesman Bruce Friedland. “If people couldn’t e-file last night, we encourage [...]

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If this is how every month in 2007 is going to go, anyone using Windows might want to set up a cot next to the computer right now: You may be working overtime, all the time, patching zero-day vulnerabilities.Last month, it was the animated cursor bug in Windows; this month it’s a hole in Microsoft [...]

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Microsoft spent millions of dollars advertising its next generation OS ‘Windows Vista‘ in China, in fact the IT juggernaut threw up the biggest Vista Ad on the 421 meter high Jin Mao tower in Shanghai China. However after 2 weeks (Jan 19 to Feb 2) from launch Microsoft managed to sell a mere 244 copies [...]

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During March, MessageLabs intercepted 716 e-mail messages that were part of 249 targeted attacks aimed at 216 of its customers, the Gloucester, England-based provider of hosted e-mail filtering services said in a research report. Of the attacks, almost 200 consisted of a single malicious e-mail designed to infiltrate an organization, MessageLabs said.
“These numbers represent [...]

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Windows XP will stop being available on new PCs from the end of January 2008. Microsoft is keeping to a plan to stop selling the operating system even though surveys show a lukewarm response to Windows Vista among consumers.
A poll by US market research firm Harris Interactive found that only 10% of those questioned [...]

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The commissioners from the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) all trekked over to Congress yesterday for an appearance before the Senate Commerce Committee. During the hearing, the commissioners explained what their agency has been up to over the last year and asked for a bigger budget to continue fighting the good fight in the future. And [...]

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Like many just-launched e-commerce sites in the world, this unnamed Web site has a fairly functional, if somewhat rudimentary, home page. A list of options at top of the home page allows visitors to transact business in Russian or in English, offers an FAQ section, spells out the terms and conditions for software use and [...]

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