Robert McMillan

The browser wars are back. Just two weeks after Microsoft Corp. delivered its highly anticipated Internet Explorer 7, Mozilla Corp. has shipped a major update to its Firefox browser. Firefox 2.0 was officially released Tuesday.

Security vendors looking to gain insight into Microsoft's plans for opening up the Vista operating system kernel were frustrated Thursday when a technical glitch kept many from joining the first online discussion of this issue.

Microsoft Corp. has reissued a Windows security patch that it published last week because the software did not work properly on Windows 2000 systems.

After winning a judgment against the Spamhaus Project Ltd., e-mail marketer e360 is asking a federal court to shut down the antispam service.

Internet experts are worried that a U.S. court decision against antispam black-lister Spamhaus Project Ltd. could trigger a "constitutional crisis" for the Internet.

The three private investigators charged in Hewlett-Packard Co.'s spying scandal have pleaded not guilty to felony charges in the affair.

Microsoft Corp. has issued 10 security updates to its Windows and Office software. Six of the 10 updates are rated critical, the most serious rating given by Microsoft.

Google Inc. has inadvertently given online attackers a new tool. The company's new source-code search engine, unveiled Thursday as a tool to help simplify life for developers, can also be misused to search for software bugs, password information, and even proprietary code that shouldn't have been posted to the Internet in the first place, security experts said.