Security

‘PatentGate’ one year later: MS against open-source world

Microsoft has played the 'good cop, bad cop' routine with the open source camp since claiming a year ago that users of open source software were violating its patents

Update: Aetna chief downplays Google Health’s potential

Medical insurance exec says with the software companies' services, data is static and cannot compare to Aetna's in-house customer records portal

The problem with ‘sandbox’ security clients

Phishers aim scam at Apple’s iTunes

Phishers target Apple for the first time with a sophisticated identity theft attack that tells users they must correct a problem with their iTunes account

Microsoft loses Alcatel-Lucent unified comms patent lawsuit

Long-running patent battle with Microsoft takes another turn as the ITC overturns its earlier decision against Alcatel

ZoneAlarm ForceField: Compromised in sixty seconds

Check Point's virtualized browser security client, like would-be panaceas before it, fails to live up to the hype

McAfee anti-fraud researcher charged with fraud

Former VP now facing 11 counts of securities fraud in transactions allegedly totaling more than $1 million

Use a fake name, go to jail

Center for Democracy and Technology says MySpace cyberbully prosecution goes too far

PayPal plugs cross-site scripting vulnerability

Finnish researcher's discovery finds that even SSL certificate was no guarantee of security

38 in U.S., Romania charged in phishing schemes

Complicated Internet phishing schemes were used to steal thousands of credit and debit card numbers