You thought you had your hands full with spam and your garden-variety software viruses, eh? Well, hang on to your seat: A new type of threat is just now being tinkered with in research labs. Called " Read More

With all the talk of terrorism, Avian flu, and mid-air plane crashes, it's always important to step back and remind ourselves that Read More

The date: May 3, 1978. The culprit: Gary Thuerk, a marketer for the old Digital Equipment Corporation. His crime: Sending a sales e-mail to 393 users on Arpanet (then a U.S. government computer network and the predecessor of today's Internet). ... Read More

In the last few weeks a new type of spam has been on the rise: Meeting requests that are sent using the calendar system in Microsoft Outlook and Google's online calendar tool. I call it "c-spam. ... Read More

It's like something out of a sci-fi movie: This summer, UK airports (it's not clear precisely which ones) will begin using Read More

Following in the wake of February's news that customs agents were seizing electronics and making copies of all the files on cell phones and laptop hard drives, a federal appeals court has ruled on the legality of such searches. ... Read More

If you're a PayPal user still using an older browser without anti-phishing tools, you may want to consider upgrading soon. ... Read More

The Windows version of Apple's software update utility now makes it clear that it's about to install new software—such as the Safari Web browser—on your system, although the checkbox is still marked by default.Apple Read More

Europe's Security Awareness Week takes place next week, and Infosecurity Europe set out to find just how well people guard their personal information. ... Read More

The hip clothing retailer is set to roll out "item-level" RFID tags to track its inventory, although there are still lingering questions about what'll happen to the chip in that hoodie you just bought. Read More