A subsidiary of FPL Group has terminated a customer that it found was providing bandwidth to a Ukrainian company suspected of widespread use of malicious software, an FPL spokesman said Friday. Steve Stengel told The Miami Herald that FPL FiberNet

Mac-aimed malware warning - Age
That ‘free’ software may inflict nasty bytes, writes Garry Barker. ‘THE wages of piracy are death,” said my friend Jim, brandishing a totally illegal Armalite rifle, instantly frightening the Chinese bartender into a state of paralysis. It was long

Human error caused Google search bug - IT World
Human error caused a glitch that returned the message “this site may harm your computer” for all Google search results for about an hour Saturday morning, the company said, but the mistake was Google’s and not StopBadware.org’s. Google Saturday

Fired Fannie Mae contractor tried to crash network - Industry Standard
A former Fannie Mae IT contractor has been charged with planting malicious software on the mortgage giant’s systems on the day he lost his job last October. Rajendrasinh Makwana, 35, who at the time was a contract employee at Fannie Mae, planted a

McAfee Internet Security Suite 2009 - Australian PC World
You’ll find a wide array of features in McAfee Internet Security Suite 2009, including backups, parental controls and antispam, along with smaller offerings such as a file shredder. And the suite did a decent job at detecting malicious software in

Data theft from firms topped a trillion dollars in 2008: study - PhysOrg
California computer security firm McAfee presented findings which revealed workers turned “cyber moles” and crime syndicates armed with malicious software are looting digital data from businesses as losses reportedly topped a trillion dollars in 2008

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