Jaikumar Vijayan

Broward County, Fl. Maricopa County, Az. Fort Bend County, Tx. Three counties, separated by hundreds of miles - with something in common: They

The US government is studying the viability of a shared technology and services infrastructure to help agencies issue new Personal Identity Verification (PIV) smart cards to all employees and contractors beginning in October.

Fidelity Investments confirmed that a laptop computer containing confidential information on more than 196,000 current and former employees at Hewlett-Packard Co. was stolen last month from the financial company. The computer theft may have exposed employees

Kaspersky Lab is reporting a new proof-of-concept virus capable of infecting both Windows and Linux systems. The cross-platform virus is relatively simple and appears to have a low impact, according to Kaspersky. Even so, it could be a sign that virus writers are beginning to research ways of writing new code capable of infecting multiple platforms.

An unpatched flaw in a "widely used security program" was exploited by an unknown hacker to gain access to a Georgia Technology Authority (GTA) database containing confidential information on more than 570,000 members of the state's pension plans.

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A faulty antivirus software update distributed by McAfee Inc. this month mistakenly identified hundreds of legitimate programs as a Windows virus, a mix-up that led some unsuspecting corporate users to accidentally delete data from affected computers.

An exploit has become publicly available for a newly disclosed critical -- and as yet unpatched -- vulnerability in Microsoft Corp.