In April, the number of web attacks rose sharply, and Microsoft was quickly blamed for the problems. The software giant investigated and concluded that security groups had jumped to conclusions and that the attacks were not related to security vulnerabilities in IIS 6.0, ASP, ASP.Net, or Microsoft SQL technologies. Instead, it was found that the attacks were due to automatic exploits of SQL injection vulnerabilities, and the company pointed to its own guides on following good practices to avoid such attacks.

In Field of Dreams, Kevin Costner is wary of building a baseball diamond on his farm, which is already near foreclosure. But a voice tells him, "If you build it, they will come."

Computer researchers at Johns Hopkins University have discovered a flaw within most recent version of Adobe's Reader and Acrobat software applications that could allow hackers to take control of vulnerable systems.

YouTube may make a lousy place to hold a class, but that doesn't mean that the YouTube experience isn't shaping the expectations of students, especially those engaged in online learning. Those expectations are not being met by universities, where most online student support systems have a rigid, hierarchal structure modeled on the university itself. According to an essay by a professor at the Open University in the UK (OU-UK), this mismatch between expectations and reality create a challenge for the university system, one that it may be poorly equipped to meet.

As expected, the latest version of Mozilla's Firefox web browser, Firefox 3, was made available for download on Tuesday.

Google Docs, the online office suite from the search giant, now has some limited but useful support for PDF files.

On a modest but significant scale, Google is sharing with its customers some of the control it wields over the search market.

Malicious software makers are using social networks, video sites, and blogs to peddle their wares to other online criminals.