Paul Roberts

A survey released by the Computer Security Institute (CSI) and the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) shows that incidents of unauthorized use of...

Internet advertising company DoubleClick Inc. was shut down Tuesday by a denial of service (DoS) attack launched from computers on the Internet, a company spokesperson confirmed.

Antivirus software companies are warning e-mail users about a new version of the MyDoom e-mail worm, dubbed MyDoom.O, which is spreading on the Internet and causing slowdowns at search engines, including those run by Lycos Inc. and Google Inc.

Law enforcement officials in the U.K. and Russia have cracked down on a major extortion ring accused of prying hundreds of thousands of dollars from online sports betting Web sites, according to a statement from the U.K.'s National Hi-Tech Crime Unit.

Network administrators returning to work after the weekend can enjoy a fresh Bagle with their coffee

Microsoft Corp. on Tuesday released seven security patches covering a wide array of the company's products. Two of those patches fix holes that Microsoft deemed "critical" and warned could allow remote attackers to take control of vulnerable Windows systems.

Antivirus and e-mail security companies sent out warnings on Tuesday about a new Trojan horse program that they claim is being mass distributed on the Internet using unsolicited commercial, or spam, e-mail.

More than 100 Web servers are still distributing the "Scob" malicious code, first identified two weeks ago as code used in a widespread attack to plant Trojan horse programs on vulnerable computers, according to one computer security company. That attack used compromised Microsoft Corp. Internet Information Services (IIS) Web servers to distribute the Trojan horse programs.