Google, Yahoo jump into video search arena
Google has launched a TV video-search service that broadens the company's strategy of expanding search to information on and off the web, and takes it into a market where more advanced services have been available for years. More...
Lawyers bicker over MSBlast hacker prison time
Lawyers in the case of Jeffrey Lee Parson, the teen hacker who pleaded guilty to creating 2003's MSBlast.b worm, are arguing over jail time prior to a sentencing hearing later this week. More...
Apple patches multiple bugs Iin Mac OS X
Apple Computer this week posted patches to fix numerous bugs in the Mac OS X operating system, and for the first time, mimicked Microsoft's naming system for its security updates.
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Shoulder surfing, sniffing worse than "Evil Twin" access points
You're more likely to have secrets ripped off at Starbucks from someone snooping over your shoulder or using wireless sniffing software than from sophisticated hackers deploying a so-called "Evil Twin" access point, a security analyst said this week. More...
W3C issues new web services recommendations
The World Wide Web Consortium has published three new web services recommendations that provide ways to efficiently package and transmit binary data included or referenced in a SOAP 1.2 message, leading to better web services performance. More...
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