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Mebroot is nearly invisible to security software since it infects the master boot record and loads before anything else
Public affairs specialist who spent years helping Microsoft battle European Commission's competition regulators moves on to Apple's government affairs department
Virus protection software is waiting in the wings in case Apple Mac OS X suddenly becomes a target of choice for hackers
The DOJ and state attorneys general are reviewing the interoperability changes Microsoft has announced in its most recent antitrust status report
Case that riled privacy advocates turns on unrelated technicalities
At the Future of Web Apps conference, Digg founder Kevin Rose floated the idea of an app that would help mediate the issue of e-mail going unread for several days
Authorities find more than $78 million worth of counterfeit Cisco Systems networking equipment in an ongoing investigation into imports from China
Notorious spammer Robert Soloway faces more than $770,000 in fines as well as charges of fraud and identity theft that could result in jail time
According to UC Berkeley study, Bank of America, Sprint, and AT&T top list of identity theft events, but several banks and telcos compromised too