CBS Interactive Inc.

Large Hadron Collider back in operation | Tech News on ZDNet
ZDNet | 18 hours 27 minutes ago
The European Organization for Nuclear Research, Cern, said in a statement on Friday that particle beams are once again circulating in the LHC, and that a clockwise circulating beam was established at 10 PM local time.

Second iPhone worm behaves like botnet | Tech News on ZDNet
ZDNet | 22 hours 19 minutes ago
Mikko Hyponen, chief research officer at F-Secure, said in a blog post that the new worm, like the first, affects jailbroken iPhones with SSH (secure shell) protocol enabled and unchanged default passwords. The Finnish security company has yet to give a name to the new threat.

CBS MOBILE LAUNCHES CBS NEWS APP FOR THE iPHONE AND iPOD TOUCH
FierceWireless | 38 days 23 hours 3 minutes ago
CBS News and CBS Mobile today announced the CBS News application for the iPhone and iPod touch. The free application delivers breaking news, video, and instant access to Twitter feeds on hot topics... Read more >>

With Internet Explorer 9, Microsoft fights back in browser wars
CNN | 4 days 18 hours 20 minutes ago
(CNET) -- With Internet Explorer 9, Microsoft showed Wednesday it's trying to retake the browser initiative.

Hackers bypass Windows 7 activation | Tech News on ZDNet
ZDNet | 7 days 16 hours 19 minutes ago
Ordinarily, the operating system requires users to activate their copy of Windows 7 within 30 days. However, a recently outlined method allows the normal notifications to be turned off.

Ray Ozzie's view from the clouds | Tech News on ZDNet
ZDNet | 5 days 22 hours 41 minutes ago
While many are ready to write off Microsoft as an declining icon of computing's last generation, Ozzie sees Microsoft positioned to leapfrog some of the companies that tend to be thought of as the leaders of the cloud computing world--names like Amazon, Salesforce and Google.

Report: Countries prepping for cyberwar
CNN | 6 days 13 hours 34 minutes ago
(CNET) -- Major countries and nation-states are engaged in a "Cyber Cold War," amassing cyberweapons, conducting espionage, and testing networks in preparation for using the Internet to conduct war, according to a new report to be released on Tuesday by McAfee.

Verizon, Motorola unveil the Droid
CNN | 6 days 13 hours 24 minutes ago
(CNET) -- Verizon Wireless customers will soon be able to get their hands on the much anticipated Google Android phone called the Droid.

ZDNet Parent Sued for Distributing 'Green Dam'
PC Magazine | 47 days 4 hours 29 minutes ago
Solid Oak Software said late Wednesday that the company has filed suit against CBS Interactive and its ZDNet China unit for copyright infringement, as a result of providing the controversial "Green Dam" software for download.

Microsoft probing Windows 7 zero-day hole | Tech News on ZDNet
ZDNet | 11 days 22 hours 50 minutes ago
The company is investigating claims of a "possible denial-of-service vulnerability in Windows Server Message Block (SMB)," the Microsoft spokesperson said, adding that the company was unaware of any attacks trying to exploit the hole.

Microsoft fixes IE patch again | Tech News on ZDNet
ZDNet | 19 days 21 hours 27 minutes ago
The fix, described in Microsoft support article ID 976749, was initially made available on October 28 and revised on Wednesday. It aims to rectify issues in the MS09-054 cumulative security update for Internet Explorer, which was included in the Patch Tuesday batch of security updates sent out on 13 October.

Oracle giving EU a hard time over Sun buy | Tech News on ZDNet
ZDNet | 19 days 20 hours 46 minutes ago
EU antitrust regulators are concerned that Oracle, which has a large business in proprietary software, will not be a good home for Sun's open-source MySQL database business. According to the report, Oracle is unyielding, offering no concessions to deal with the European Commission's concerns.

EC reveals details of Intel antitrust breaches | Tech News on ZDNet
ZDNet | 19 days 18 hours 52 minutes ago
The EU's Competition Commission levied a 1.06bn ( 959m) ($1.56bn - based on Monday's exchange rate) fine on Intel in May, after finding the company had given rebates to PC manufacturers and a European retail giant on condition they only or mostly sold Intel processors, rather than chips from rival AMD.

New Trojan encrypts files but leaves no ransom note | Tech News on ZDNet
ZDNet | 21 days 15 hours 33 minutes ago
Trojan.Ramvicrype uses the RC4 algorithm to encrypt files on systems running Windows 98, 95, XP, Windows Me, Vista, NT, Windows Server 2003 and Windows 2000, according to Symantec's Web site.

Zero-day flaw found in web encryption | Tech News on ZDNet
ZDNet | 18 days 17 hours 49 minutes ago
Ray, who along with Dispensa works for two-factor authentication company PhoneFactor, explained in a blog post on Thursday that he had initially discovered the flaw in August, and demonstrated a working exploit to Dispensa at the beginning of September.