Robert Lemos

A security firm warns Google Desktop users to update after the search giant fixes a vulnerability in the program that could allow an attacker to use JavaScript to search for and steal specific data on a user’s system.
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Microsoft launches its latest operating system, Windows Vista–software that security researchers say will make finding exploitable vulnerabilities a lot harder.
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Private firms and government agencies will pay thousands to tens of thousands of dollars for original research on critical software flaws–no questions asked.
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Easy-to-find flaws in Web applications boosted–by more than a third–the number of security issues found last year, according to the major vulnerability databases.
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A Republican congressman gets seated in the U.S. House of Representatives, but without a bug in the electronic ballot, the challenger would have won, voting experts say.
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Vulnerabilities, especially in Web applications, take off, while bot nets and their controllers cause a jump in spam, and data breaches continue to worry companies and their customers.
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More secure operating systems mean that attackers are looking elsewhere for holes to sneak through.
PC Magazine

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One Wired News correspondent cuts his connection to the cable company and doesn’t look back. Can the internet supply enough video programming to entertain a family of five?
Wired News

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A new experiment sends a simple idea racing around the web, and tracks its progress. All of this has happened before; all of this will happen again.
Wired News

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With online miscreants attacking Internet Explorer and Firefox, you need to take steps to protect your browser.
PC Magazine

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