Robert McMillan

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Microsoft drops OneCare antivirus product
Nov. 18, 2008
Two years after trying to build a consumer antivirus business, Microsoft has decide to throw in the towel.

Symantec CEO John Thompson to step down
Nov. 17, 2008
Symantec CEO John Thompson is retiring.

A sneaky security problem, ignored by the bad guys
Nov. 14, 2008
Frank Boldewin had seen a lot of malicious software in his time, but never anything like Rustock.C.

Equifax Over 18 I-Card proves you're old enough
Nov. 13, 2008
Credit rating agency Equifax has introduced a way to prove that you're over 18 on the Internet.

Obama won the Web uptime race, too
Nov. 13, 2008
Barack Obama had a slight advantage over rival John McCain during the U.S. presidential campaign: His Web site was online more often.

Popular RSS reader Bloglines suffers outage
Nov. 13, 2008
The popular Bloglines RSS feed reader was knocked offline for several hours Thursday due to what its owner, IAC Search & Media, described as a technical glitch.

Microsoft security patch was seven years in the making
Nov. 12, 2008
Some security patches take time.

Study: Critical infrastructure often under cyberattack
Nov. 11, 2008
Computer systems that run the world's critical infrastructure are not as secure as they should be and insiders are mad.

IT admin used inside knowledge to hack and steal
Nov. 11, 2008
A former San Jose, California, network administrator is facing 12 years in prison after pleading guilty to hacking, ID theft, burglary and drug charges.

Microsoft fixes critical Web bugs with security updates
Nov. 11, 2008
Microsoft released two security updates for its Windows operating system Tuesday to patch flaws that could give attackers new ways to install malicious software on a victim's computer.

Thousands hit in broad Web hack
Nov. 08, 2008
Hackers have launched a massive Web hacking campaign, putting malicious links on as many as 10,000 servers, security vendor Kaspersky Lab warned Friday.

Amateurs and pros vie to build new crypto standard
Nov. 07, 2008
Fifteen-year-old Peter Schmidt-Nielsen spent only a month working on his submission, but he thinks he's come up with something "unusual and new." Never mind that he's up against some of the most famous cryptographers in ...

Project turns GPS phones into traffic reporters
Nov. 06, 2008
Researchers from Nokia and the University of California in Berkeley will go live with a new project next week that aims to cull GPS data from thousands of mobile phones in order to tell drivers which San Francisco Bay ...

A jailbreak for Google's Android
Nov. 06, 2008
Hackers have found a way to circumvent controls in the Google Android operating system used on T-Mobile's G1 mobile phone, allowing them to get around restrictions created by the phone's designers.

Barracuda bites into backup and disaster recovery
Nov. 06, 2008
Security appliance vendor Barracuda Networks has bought BitLeap, a seller of backup and disaster recovery services.

Once thought safe, WPA Wi-Fi encryption is cracked
Nov. 06, 2008
Security researchers say they've developed a way to partially crack the Wi-Fi Protected Access (WPA) encryption standard used to protect data on many wireless networks.

IT worker let spammers into ex-employer's servers
Nov. 04, 2008
An IT manager who logged onto to his former employer's computer network five months after being fired and opened the e-mail server up to spammers has been sentenced to one year in prison.

Internet now a voter disenfranchisement tool
Nov. 04, 2008
Dirty political tricks are going Web 2.0 in the 2008 presidential election, with scammers using Facebook, text messaging and e-mail hacking to try to trick people into missing their chance to vote.

Site tracking voting problems has glitch of its own
Nov. 04, 2008
A Web site set up to monitor voting problems in the 2008 U.S. presidential election suffered some technical difficulties of its own Tuesday.

Nov. 4, 2008: What could possibly go wrong?
Nov. 03, 2008
E-voting technology has come a long way since the 2000 U.S. presidential election, when voting equipment problems erased an estimated 1.5 million votes during one of the closest elections in U.S. history.

Seeing tough times ahead, Symantec plans layoffs
Oct. 31, 2008
Anticipating a slowdown in IT spending, Symantec expects to begin laying off employees next month.

Yahoo ad network offers 'deceptive' ads
Oct. 31, 2008
Deceptive advertising may be illegal in the U.S., but Yahoo's ad network appears to offer it to publishers on a menu of choices when they're deciding what ads to run on their Web sites.

Sun blames Wall Street for $1.7B loss
Oct. 30, 2008
Blaming the downturn in the financial sector, Sun Microsystems reported a US$1.68 billion loss for its most recent fiscal quarter on Thursday.

Worm uses Google to squirm around Facebook
Oct. 29, 2008
A malicious program that sprang up on Facebook.com in late July has surfaced again, this time using Google's Web sites to sneak around security filters.

Symantec builds an incubator for new ideas
Oct. 29, 2008
Security vendor Symantec thinks it can have the best of both worlds, building a nimble startup atmosphere within a massive, 17,000-employee company.