Microsoft Corp. said it is readying an online marketplace, code-named Fremont, which is apparently in response to a similar feature that rival Google Inc. introduced a few weeks ago.

Coordinated cyberattacks could be nationally damaging, says one cybersecurity expert.

Search giant joins AOL, Verizon, and Yahoo in interest in new ad model.

Last week was shortened by the Thanksgiving holiday, and it seemed the malware guys took it off as well. There was not much going on of recent origin, and the biggest blip on the security radar was the realization by the security community that an Internet Explorer problem first identified six months ago was a lot worse than it appeared.

Even as the National Association of Software and Services Companies (Nasscom) is collaborating with Mumbai Police to observe Cyber Safety Week, DNA takes a look at the top 10 hacking incidents of all time — instances where some of the most seemingly secure computer networks were compromised

Using a search engine is now the No. 2 activity for Web users, research has found.

Spam attempts to trick users into installing the Sober worm.

U.S. auction house is trying to sell one of Saddam Hussein's military uniforms online, calling it an "ultimate artefact" of the U.S. war in Iraq.

A new report on the top Internet vulnerabilities of 2005 finds a trend toward attacking common user applications.

Flaw enabled data theft from new content-hosting service upon its recent launch.

Microsoft will offer its Word, Excel, and PowerPoint document formats as open standards.

Google's hosted Web analytics service Google Analytics suffered serious performance problems earlier this week, after the company announced the service would be available free of charge, but seemed to have stabilized by Wednesday.

GOOGLE has managed to keep the lid on a serious bug in Gmail that had enabled hackers to take over accounts, read the contents and use them to send spam, since the service started.

Yahoo! and Microsoft, in an ongoing challenge to the search kingpin, pursue partnerships that are altering the Internet landscape

Downloadable mobile app extends Google Local's search, mapping services to some phones.

Santa Cruz Networks expands its Festoon plug-in to support Google's IM service.

Revamped browser adds speed, icons, and support for Web standards.

Analysis: Live Software Strategy aims at strong Google, Yahoo portals but could drain MSN.

Revamped indexing and search tool offers features (and versions) for work and home.

Sample carries harmless payload, but demonstrates an attack unique to Oracle databases.

Instant messaging users warned of worm that installs backdoor on infected machines.

Blake Irving, the guy Microsoft trotted out to demo Windows Live, couldn't get his demo of Windows Live going.

Microsoft will add a "Save As" function in its upcoming Microsoft Office 12 for publishing the developer's own electronic document format, XPS, another move in a competitive campaign against Adobe.