LAS VEGAS, NV – During Saturday’s session of the Defcon convention, IT security researcher Jesse D’Aguanno announced that he has developed a program called “BBProxy” that, when executed on a Blackberry device, could give an attacker access to the victim’s network. D’Aguanno also...

CYBERSPACE – Microsoft Corp. released a report Tuesday identifying 12 security flaws, nine considered “critical,” and provided software updates on its website to patch the holes. Yesterday, the U.S. Dept. of Homeland Security (DHS) issued an unusual alert of its own, urging PC...

LOS ANGELES, CA — This summer has been rife with big screen and recording industry divorces and break-ups, and the known body count increased today, with Hollywood gossip site PerezHilton.com posting a compromising photo of recently separated rocker Dave Navarro with...

LAS VEGAS, NV — Some say that Mattel’s Barbie doll has everything. She may have a pink convertible, a gay ex-boyfriend, an astronaut’s suit, and more spiked heels than Imelda Marcos, but she’s never been a Playboy Bunny. Only real girls can grow up to do...

CYBERSPACE – Google Inc. and News Corp. have arrived at an agreement under which Google will pay $900 million across three and half years to provide text-based advertising and keyword targeted ads across the Fox Interactive Media network, as well as News Corp’s popular...

REDMOND, WA – Research papers presented by Microsoft Corp. at the 2006 Association for Computing Machinery’s Special Interest Group on Information Retrieval (SIGIR) conference show that the software giant has been working hard behind the scenes to tackle the issue of internet...

CYBERSPACE – Google, using data supplied by the Stop Badware Coalition (SBC), has begun “flagging” sites that contain malicious code and directing users who are about to visit such flagged sites to a warning page.Google users who attempt to visit sites that have been...

HOLLYWOOD, FL — The suitcases have been packed, the banners have been removed, and the trek back home from the 2006 summer Internext has begun in earnest. When the sleep deprivation and alcohol haze recede, attendees of this year’s summer Internext will likely remember good...

SCOTTSDALE, AZ – According to reports in the Arizona Republic and the East Valley Tribune, Scottsdale police are investigating an allegation of misdemeanor assault on a dancer at Babe’s Cabaret, a Scottsdale strip club co-owned by adult film star Jenna Jameson, Jameson’s husband...

AL MANAMAH, BAHRAIN – According to the vice-president of The World Khan Do Kwan Federation (WKDKF), his organization recently received a harsh lesson in the perils of “outsourcing,” and the importance of choosing web service providers carefully.Last month, the WKDKF discovered...