A glitch that apparently occurred in Google’s “Stop Badware” program led to what Verizon’s security blog called a “self-inflicted denial of service” Saturday morning, with all search results warning “this site may be harmful to your computer.”
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.
Microsoft has filed a lawsuit against a former employee, charging him with taking a job at the software giant in order to steal information that would be helpful in his patent infringement case against the company.
A group of U.S. companies, led by technology giants Microsoft, Hewlett-Packard and eBay, is set to outline recommendations for new federal data-privacy legislation that could make life easier for consumers and lead to a standard federal breach-notification law.
Yahoo’s Briefcase online storage service, which soldiered on for almost 10 years with a distinctly Web 1.0 capacity of 30MB, is finally being shut down.
A change that Microsoft made in Windows 7 to improve its controversial User Account Control security feature has left the new OS less secure, according to a blogger who follows Microsoft closely.
Mobile user interfaces and a new version of Bluetooth top Gartner Research’s list of mobile technologies to watch in 2009 and 2010.
NFL IT guru David Port claims he doesn’t have a favorite football team, but on Sunday he’ll be working his 25th Super Bowl. As the league’s vice president of information technology, Port and his IT staff are responsible for building a temporary network to support NFL staff and thousands of journalists during Super Bowl week.
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Internet search engines have focused largely on crawling text on Web pages, but Google is knee-deep in research about how to analyze and organize structured data, a company scientist said Friday.
Advanced Micro Devices will soon introduce processors that are capable of supporting DDR3 memory, earlier than the company had anticipated.
Microsoft has filed a lawsuit against a former employee, charging him with taking a job at the software giant in order to steal information that would be helpful in his patent infringement case against the company.
Intel filed a lawsuit against an insurer over failure to cover legal fees on an antitrust lawsuit filed by rival chipmaker Advanced Micro Devices.
Despite bearish earnings and big layoffs, any week where there’re rumors of a new iPhone can’t all be bad. Apple rumors, rogue road signs, new and/or improved browsers, and the ever expanding world of Google made it a colorful week. Are you tech savvy enough to ace our quiz? Correct answers are worth 10 points [...]
The U.S. will have significant problems switching from analog to digital television if the transition goes forward as scheduled on Feb. 17, the recently appointed acting chairman of the U.S. Federal Communications Commission said Friday.
SonicWall is putting its Global Management System software onto an appliance to make the platform easier to deploy.
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