It's a good time to be a malicious hacker. Business is excellent.

Hacker posts details of a flaw that could let criminals run unauthorized software on a victim's machine.

McAfee's new Rootkit Detective is designed to detect and remove dangerous rootkit attacks.

Certification has been awarded to consumer wireless USB products for the first time, with Dell and Lenovo both announcing notebook computers using the technology.

Further distancing itself from GPLv3, Microsoft struck the GNU license from its patent agreement with Lindows.

Microsoft quest to have Open XML approved by the ISO as a global technology standard seems to have recovered from a setback it suffered last week.

Oracle is integrating one of its applications with Google's mapping service to help service providers locate customers more quickly.

Mozilla's web browser, Firefox, is becoming increasingly popular, gaining on average an extra 3.1 percent of the market in 32 European countries in the past four months, according to French web-monitoring company XiTi Monitor.

Sun says a Java security threat, which was called "as bad as it gets", has now been patched.

Samsung Electronics, the world's top memory chipmaker, reported its smallest quarterly profit in four years after steep declines in computer memory chip prices overshadowed improvements in flat screens.

Microsoft is pushing ahead with its security business, with a raft of new funding for its Forefront business security products and an updated version of its controversial OneCare suite.

This week CNET's Robert Vamosi talks with Bryan Sullivan, senior research engineer for SPI Labs, and Billy Hoffman, the company's lead researcher. They're putting together a presentation on Ajax security at this year's Black Hat USA security conference in Las Vegas later this month. In particular, the pair built an Ajax-enabled travel Web site using all the current site recommendations. During the presentation, they plan to poke holes in it, demonstrating how vulnerable some current implementations of Ajax are in this Web 2.0 world.

Microsoft is in the early stages of a plan that will see virtually its entire lineup of underlying internet services opened up to developers, the software maker made clear this week.

Reverse engineers are now able to activate an iPhone without an AT&T account and can gain shell access via a serial connection.

Nearly one-third of British business PCs still have sensitive data on them when they are discarded, according to research commissioned by Lenovo.

Microsoft Corp. will release six groups of security patches next week including three critical updates for Windows and Excel users.

Enterprises will not adopt mobile Linux because it is too fragmented, according to Symbian's head of enterprise business market development.

Memory standards association confirms a spec that it says will boost performance and reduce power.