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A cache poisoning flaw that was discovered earlier this year in the Domain Name System protocol was kept under wraps while a group of vendors worked in tandem to develop software patches
Cybercrooks are actively taking advantage of what appears to be a previously undisclosed security flaw in Microsoft Word, according to an advisory issued by Symantec
ICANN, the international organization that oversees the Web's top-level DNS said that a hijacking last month of several of its domains was due to a security breach at the registrar that manages those URLs
More than 20,000 users have signed up for a grass-roots campaign against Obama's position supporting the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Amendments Act
A judge's order that Google turn over YouTube user data to Viacom is raising privacy concerns. But some privacy advocates question why Google is collecting the data in the first place