Security

IT conspiracy theories

Put on your tinfoil hats: Utilities, Google, and Sun may have secret master plans

Should Microsoft be in the anti-malware business?

New malware-fighting tools raise debate about making profit from holes in your own products

Update: Lawmakers grill Dunn, Hurd over pretexting

CEO Hurd testifies he did not read a March report describing the use of pretexting

HP approves $3.7M severance package for top lawyer

Ann Baskins resigned Thursday just before a U.S. Congress subcommittee hearing on HP's investigation methods into boardroom leaks

Computer crime laws worry security pros

Hacking programs can be used for good as well as evil, so where should line be drawn by government?

MS antisphishing tool wins MS bakeoff

Microsoft sponsors an antiphishing technology bake-off. Guess who wins...

HP CEO: Pretexting probe a ‘rogue’

In an advance copy of his testimony, Hurd said the end came to justify the means

In Brief: Sun buys into identity management with Neogent

Six charged in breakup of AOL identity theft ring

Men are accused of harvesting AOL e-mail addresses and infecting victims' PCs with malicious software

Demofall: Security, PC-sharing, nanotechnology touted

Anti-botnet appliance among multiple offerings taking the stage