Articles by Susan B. Shor

There's a wealth of information out there for hackers, or "black hats," as they are also called. The arrest last Thursday of alleged Zotob writer Farid Essebar, 18, who went by the name Diabl0, has shed some light on the thriving underground culture, but much remains a mystery The hacker underworld in which Essebar participated comprises numerous i...

Apple has done what it does best once again. Fans and the media alike are abuzz trying to guess at what the company will reveal Sept. 7 at a "special event" in San Francisco Because Apple is notoriously tight-lipped about new products and because its iPod is still the portable music player to have, its announcement-of-an-announcement has got imagin...

Although law enforcement officials have arrested two men they believe wrote the Mytob and Zotob worms, one security expert said there may not be much enterprises can do to stop such infections from striking again "There's little to learn," Mikko Hypponen, director of antivirus research, F-Secure, told TechNewsWorld about the lessons of the malware ...

Although law enforcement officials have arrested two men they believe wrote the Mytob and Zotob worms, one security expert said there may not be much enterprises can do to stop such infections from striking again "There's little to learn," Mikko Hypponen, director of antivirus research, F-Secure, told TechNewsWorld about the lessons of the malware ...

Two new phishing scams, one targeting PayPal and one eBay, are making the rounds on the Internet today, the anti-malware company Sophos said In the first, scammers are using a new twist: Instead of trying to get PayPal customers to input personal information on a bogus Web site, the e-mail sends them to a site hosted in Poland....

PalmSource and MontaVista Software said today that they will work together to speed the development of next generation Linux-based mobile phones, a move that furthers PalmSource's decision to move its Palm OS onto the Linux kernel The companies have joined each other's partner programs....

A spyware ring has infiltrated the IT systems of as many as 50 international banks and logged social security numbers, credit card and bank account numbers, passwords, eBay and PayPal account information and chat transcripts, according to the security firm Sunbelt Software The anti-spyware manufacturer's president wrote in the company blog that it ...

IBM Research will turn over its data search technology to the open-source community, the company said yesterday. The Unstructured Information Management Architecture (UIMA) searches store data not through keywords, but by analyzing the data within documents to see if they fit the concepts and facts the user is researching It will be made available ...

IBM Research will turn over its data search technology to the open source community, the company said today. The Unstructured Information Management Architecture (UIMA) searches store data not through keywords, but by analyzing the data within documents to see if they fit the concepts and facts the user is researching It will be made available thro...

Microsoft announced in July it was stepping full force into the small- to mid-size business (SMB) market with a customer relationship management (CRM) product designed to fit into its Office software suite At the time, analysts said Microsoft was wise to take a bottom-up approach to the CRM office since the giants of CRM, Oracle and SAP, don't scal...

The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) decided today that telephone companies that offer high-speed Internet access do not have to share their wire lines with other DSL providers By classifying DSL as a information service, the FCC freed telecoms from federal telecommunications regulations. The Supreme Court had ruled earlier this year that ca...

Although F-Secure, a Finnish antivirus company, reports that it has discovered the first malicious code targeted at Microsoft's Windows Vista (formerly code-named Longhorn), the command shell the hacker cracked is not an integral part of the new operating system Mikko Hypponen, chief research officer, F-Secure, told TechNewsWorld that the five proo...

It's a modern parental dilemma: Should children have cell phones? Hectic schedules make it convenient to be able to reach your 10-year-old when he's at swimming lessons and you're stuck in traffic. But if you decide to go that route, is your child responsible and mature enough to use the phone correctly and appropriately? While a lot of that depend...

Vonage has taken a step into the WiMax world, making a deal with TowerStream, a provider of high-speed Internet access. The deal is the first of its kind between VoIP and WiMax services "TowerStream is not one of the largest providers, so it's a modest deal," Roger Entner, vice president of wireless telecom Ovum, told TechNewsWorld. "It's the firs...

Intel has joined forces with Connexion by Boeing to help ensure that travelers almost always have access to the Internet Connexion, a business unit of the airplane maker, already has WiFi hotspots in place on 70 planes on Lufthansa, Scandinavian Airlines, Japan Airlines, ANA, Singapore Airlines and China Airlines. Austrian Airlines, Korean Air, El ...

Because open-source software is written by individual developers or groups of developers on their own time and with their own resources, the quality of the product is an unknown To combat that problem, Carnegie Mellon West Center for Open Source Investigation; Intel; O'Reilly CodeZoo, a repository of open-source code; and SpikeSource, which certifi...

Intel has joined forces with Connexion by Boeing to help ensure that travelers almost always have access to the Internet Connexion, a business unit of the airplane maker, already has WiFi hotspots in place on 70 planes on Lufthansa, Scandinavian Airlines, Japan Airlines, ANA, Singapore Airlines and China Airlines. Austrian Airlines, Korean Air, El ...

The man who helped safeguard e-mail with his Pretty Good Privacy (PGP) desktop encryption program is now at work on ensuring no one can eavesdrop on Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) conversations Phil Zimmermann was scheduled to demonstrate his VoIP security program at Black Hat Briefings, an Internet security conference in Las Vegas, yesterday....

The man who helped safeguard e-mail with his Pretty Good Privacy (PGP) desktop encryption program is now at work on ensuring no one can eavesdrop on Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) conversations Phil Zimmermann was scheduled to demonstrate his VoIP security program at Black Hat Briefings , an Internet security conference in Las Vegas, today....

XM Radio and Napster today announced a service that links listening to music to purchasing it, which one analyst said should be welcomed by consumers "In the new world of digital music, portability is the holy grail and anything that you can do in service of portability will be appreciated by consumers," Isaac Josephson, senior account manager, NPD...