Robert McMillan

Although Interpol is not the first law enforcement group most people associate with the fight against online crime, the 85-year-old data-sharing organization for police has been taking an increased interest in the phenomenon of late, helping train the next generation of cyber crime investigators on fighting botnets and forming regional working groups to focus on IT crime threats.

The Web attack, which appears to be a coordinated effort run out of servers in China, seem primarily directed at online games using code that takes advantage of bugs that have already been patched

The software maker identifies 12 vulnerabilities within its productivity suite, including one that allowed hackers to create zero-day exploits around Excel. Also: Problems with the "mailto" link

The most critical items in Microsoft's monthly update address bugs that affect users of the Visual FoxPro database, as well as the WebDAV redirector software. Security vendors set their priorities

After an ActiveX bug was discovered on Yahoo Jukebox, security experts are warning IT managers to either disable ActiveX controls for surfers, or create a white list of approved controls. Symantec Corp. has hosted three sites exploited by hackers taking advantage of ActiveX flaws

An intelligence analyst with one of the United States' biggest law enforcement agencies discloses recently declassified attacks at a security professionals' conference

The retailers makes changes in a community portal where shoppers can download product manuals, find product tips and get home renovation ideas after research indicates too much data was being made public

A Russian security company discovers what is called a stack overflow bug that could seriously affect users of the popular multimedia software. US-CERT investigates the scope of the problem