Gregg Keizer

Mozilla Corp. is considering adding a tool to Firefox 3.0 that would automatically block Web sites thought to harbor malicious downloads, but the company's security chief refused to spell out details

The Chinese military possesses dangerous first-strike cyberwar capabilities that include special units charged with developing viruses to attack enemy computer networks, a U.S. Department of Defense (DOD) report has warned. One commentator says the report shows how China's military thinking on information warfare has radically switched to the offensive.

A massive spam outbreak that tries to trick recipients into opening a file attachment that can hijack their computers has already broken records, security companies said Thursday

Wilkes University announced Wednesday that it has pulled the plug on PCs in favor of Macs.

AppleTuesday made up for Microsoft's patch sabbatical by releasing a security update that featured fixes for 45 vulnerabilities, a third of which addressed flaws first made public during a pair of bug-a-day projects in late 2006 and early this year.

Microsoft will deliver future versions of Office as software, not as a service, and as complete packages, not modules that do incremental updates, Jeff Raikes, president of the company's business group, said late last week.

Microsoft Corp. has been ballyhooing Windows Vista's security for years, saying that it will prove to be its strongest, toughest operating system ever.

The FBI lost 160 laptop computers in less than four years - an average of nearly four each month - according to the inspector general for the Department of Justice. In many cases, the FBI didn't know what was on the missing computers. The inspector general criticized the agency for not enforcing its own rules on reporting lost or stolen hardware and hit the agency for not being able to detail the contents of the laptops.