Robert Lemos

Defining success in your own life can be fairly straightforward: Figure out what goals matter to you and achieve them. However, for the competitive set–you know, the ones who ask all the milestone questions at high-school reunions–comparing your level of success with others is very difficult: Does my eight kids trump my boss’s vice president [...]

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Security firms advise companies and home users to patch their Windows systems after detecting a bot program using a recently fixed flaw to compromise computers.
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Exploiting a lack of security checks in browsers and Web servers, Web worms and viruses are likely to become a major threat to surfers.
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A security researcher informs Microsoft of more than 100 flaws in ActiveX controls included with a default installation of Windows XP. Another reason to install Internet Explorer 7?
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Vulnerability researchers and hacker groups are inundating the software giant with flaws in its Office productivity suite, putting the product team on alert for almost an entire summer.
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Automated classification of malicious software could make recognition of threats faster and names more consistent, but researchers cannot agree on what such a system should look like.
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Today, cell-phone viruses are not a big deal. But if you think your phone will always be safe, think again.
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Under threat of further attacks on its service and users, an Israeli anti-spam startup decides to shutter its service.
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Carl Linnaeus would be disgusted by today’s virus alerts. The 18th-century botanist herded the scientific community of the day into accepting his hierarchical classification system for plants and animals. Thanks to Linnaeus, scientists today can discuss living things using a shared nomenclature.
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Threatened by investigators’ ability to tap into chat-based command-and-control networks, bot masters increasingly look to peer-to-peer communications, encryption and other technologies to hide their tracks.
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