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A researcher in India who has been charged with the theft of an electronic voting machine (EVM) was on Thursday remanded to two more days in police custody by a magistrate in Mumbai.

Facebook today announced that chat support for Microsoft's IE6 browser will be dropped on Sept. 15.

A USB drive loaded with malware was used to compromise sensitive military networks in 2008, according to U.S Deputy Defense Secretary William Lynn.

Some of the world's most popular Windows programs are vulnerable to a major bug in how they load critical code libraries, according to sites tracking attack code.

It's a good idea to think twice before pursuing certain professions -- they could change your daily habits, if not your entire outlook on life. A chief financial officer might choose a house project based on its impact on home value. An emergency room worker might forbid his kids from jumping on a trampoline.

Don't look now, but the Flash Zombies are after you.

Although U.S. military networks are attacked all the time, it took a successful thumb-drive assault on the Pentagon in 2008 to convince the U.S. military to revise its cybersecurity strategy, according to a published report.

The Social Security Administration says it will announce in September a new award for data networking services following Qwest's successful -- but secretive -- legal protest of the original awards to Verizon and AT&T.

Adobe Systems patched 20 security vulnerabilities in its Shockwave Player on Tuesday. Most of the flaws could allow an attacker to run their own code on an affected computer.

Visa this week added new best practices for makers of payment applications and those using them.

Yesterday Microsoft released a security advisory addressing a bug in the way many applications are coded which could be exploited to attack Windows PCs. Microsoft was quick to point out that this new class of remote attacks is not related to specific vulnerabilities in Microsoft products, but that doesn't mean that Microsoft's applications are properly coded to avoid this issue either.

Apple has released a security update to its Mac OS X operating system, fixing a number of critical security issues in the software.

Less than 24 hours after Microsoft said it couldn't patch Windows to fix a systemic problem, attack code appeared Tuesday to exploit the company's software.

In recent weeks, more and more iTunes users have been reporting fraudulent activity on their Apple accounts, reporting hundreds or even thousands of dollars worth of bogus purchases. With the reports of this type of fraud on the uptick in recent weeks, many users have been quick to blame Apple or PayPal, as many of the affected iTunes accounts were linked to PayPal accounts.

Apple's new iOS 4 operating system for iPhone 3G and above pays close attention to your location, in good and maybe not-so-good ways.

Microsoft released a security advisory in response to a potential exploit, known as DLL preloading or binary planting, which has been found to impact hundreds of third-party Windows applications--possibly including software developed by Microsoft itself. Unfortunately, this isn't a simple Windows vulnerability that Microsoft can fix with its next patch release, so it's important that you understand the flaw and what is at risk, as well as what you can do to protect your systems.

More than 40 percent of the world's spam is coming from a single network of computers that computer security experts continue to battle, according to new statistics from Symantec's MessageLabs' division.

Nearly two-thirds of Americans are concerned that information about their bank accounts, credit cards and identity may be stolen from their computers, according to a survey released today by a provider of identity theft protection services.

The Rustock mega-botnet appears to have ditched the experimental use of TLS (transport layer security) to obscure its activity, Symantec has reported.

It's hardly practical to believe there are "right" and "wrong" ways to employ social networking services like Twitter or Facebook. However, there are "smart" and/or "safe" methods of use, especially for location-based services (LBS) that identify your whereabouts at a given time, like popular social network/LBS Foursquare.