Robert McMillan

Articles by Robert McMillan

Cloud computing a ‘security nightmare,’ says Chambers

Cloud computing is hot, but the head of Cisco Systems sees trouble coming. At the RSA security conference, one speaker said it should be called 'swamp computing'

Are you done yet? Conficker still infecting 50,000 PCs per day

The Conficker worm is building the world's largest botnet and members of the Conficker Working Group are raising the alarm that remediation has to ramp up

Twitter mulls paid services

Analytics, directory products and other paid business services may be in the works, according to Twitter co-founder Biz Stone

Gumblar attacks on Google search results intensifies

A Web attack that peppers Google search results with malicious links has infected more than 3,000 Web sites and continues to grow

Phished Facebook accounts spewing spam

A Russian cyber-gang is believed to be behind the ploy to use Facebook accounts that were phished last week as spam bots according to an online security researcher. Here's what to do if you think your account is infected

Conficker infected tens of millions of machines

A recent scanning by IBM of more than 2 million computers suggests that Conficker contaminated drastically more machines that initially thought

The search for Conficker’s first victim

Researchers are tracing the activities of the notorious worm that infected more than 10 million computers to map out how the contamination began

Adobe flaw has been used in attacks since early January

Sourcefire says it has discovered a bug in Acrobat Reader that lets hackers attack Mac and Windows users has been around for about six weeks. How extensive is the problem?

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