The University of California, Berkeley (UC Berkeley) has begun notifying more than 160,000 students, alumni and others about the potential …
Adobe promises patch for zero-day PDF bug by next Tuesday
Adobe has promised to patch the newest zero-day vulnerability in its popular Adobe Reader software no later than next Tuesday, …
Mobile-phone vendors focus on software as sales drop
Mobile-phone sales continue to be hurt by the faltering economy, so vendors are increasingly looking to software and services to …
Microsoft doctors AutoRun in Windows 7 to stymie Conficker
Prompted by the spread of the Conficker worm through infected USB drives, Microsoft Corp. will unveil changes in next week's …
How Bluetooth got as fast as Wi-Fi
Bluetooth last week stopped being chained to the low-power, low-throughput radio that has been both its strength and its weakness. …
Windows bugs never really die
Hackers can successfully attack Windows PCs months — even years — after Microsoft Corp. fixes a flaw, a security expert …
Mozilla patches 12 Firefox bugs, a third of them critical
Mozilla Corp. patched 12 security vulnerabilities in Firefox 3, just days before it hopes to roll out the newest beta …
Microsoft, Oracle issue patches for slew of holes
Microsoft Corp. last week released eight security updates that patch 23 vulnerabilities in Windows, Internet Explorer, Excel and other software …
Palm’s webOS lives up to hype, developers say
Underneath the sleek exterior, the multi-touch display and the sliding keyboard of the upcoming Palm Pre smartphone is the real …
VMware bug allows Windows hack to attack Macs
A bug in VMware's Fusion virtualization software could be used to run malicious code on a Mac by exploiting Windows …
HP Software bolsters application-scanning products
HP Software Wednesday updated its security products to help customers scan Web-based applications for vulnerabilities. On display at HP's booth …
Microsoft patches ‘insane’ number of bugs
Microsoft released eight security updates that patch 23 vulnerabilities in Windows, Internet Explorer, Excel and other software in the company's …
Users warned of virtualization’s ‘dark side’
Users are paying little attention to some of the downsides of virtualization in their haste to reap the benefits that …
Analysis: Where did Sun go wrong?
Just before the crash of the dot-com boom that spawned the meteoric rise of Sun Microsystems Inc., then-CEO Scott McNealy …
iPhone to uplift Wi-Fi capabilities
Apple seems to be laying the groundwork to introduce high-capacity, low-power 802.11n Wi-Fi to the iPod Touch, and presumably to …
Microsoft to limit Office 2003 support
Microsoft Corp. has announced that it will drop mainstream support for Office 2003 on April 14, the same day it …
Conficker copycat prowls for victims, says Microsoft
An old, but little-known worm has copied some of the infection strategies of Conficker, the worm that raised a ruckus …
Microsoft to limit Office 2003 support
Office 2003, which was last updated in September 2007 with Service Pack 3 (SP3), will leave mainstream support in less …
Conficker’s makers lose big, expert says
The malware makers who crafted Conficker must be extremely disappointed, a security expert said today, and not because the Internet …
5 best router and switch features you never use
It's been said that Microsoft Word users only exploit 10% of the software's capabilities. The same might be true of …