A botnet is a number of Internet computers that, although their owners are unaware of it, have been set up to forward transmissions (including spam or viruses) to other computers on the Internet. Any such computer is referred to as a zombie - in effect, a computer "robot" or ...

Hackers turned computer security specialists accuse Google of setting users up for online disasters by letting them personalize home pages with applications that could be tainted. Software that hackers can trick people into installing on "iGoogle" home pages can track users' activities and control their machines, SecTheory chief executive ...

We often listen in news papers, blogs and in other media about the fraud in which some one steal identity record of a person and use it unfairly. The question arises, how the criminals theft the identity record?. There are many ways to obtain your particular records but mainly based ...

It is better to keep a short pencil rather keeping a long memory. This quotation is by Shakespear. During Shakespear time there was no computer so no need to use passwords in applications. Now the scenario is different, one have to remember lot of passwords but one does not have ...

The functionality of myspace in respect of the e-mail importer raises privacy and security concerns. not everyone is savy with the feature. the feature allows you to login from the myspace account into your e-mail account and check who from your e-mail address book is on myspace. in the case of gmail ...

Hackers have penetrated an upper layer of data at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), a multiprogram science and technology lab managed for the U.S. Department of Energy by UT-Battelle. Scientists and engineers at ORNL work to increase the availability of clean and abundant energy, restore and protect the environment, and ...

In 2005 i read about hackers hacked the t-mobile customer information database.  I am curious to know what precaustions has been taken by the company. T-mobile is a wireless giant operating in USA. Hacker able to get into the system and steal the important data of clients. The social ...

The advent of AJAX applications has raised considerable security issues due to a broadened threat window brought about by the very same technologies and complexities developed. With an increase in script execution and information exchanged in server/client requests and responses, hackers have greater opportunity to steal data thereby costing organizations thousands of dollars in ...