The rush to adopt Ajax is leading web developers to make basic security mistakes, in some cases a decade old, that leave gaping holes in their applications. That's according to researchers here at the Black Hat security conference in Las Vegas.

ATLANTA, July 23 /PRNewswire/ -- S.P.I. Dynamics, Inc.

By Byron Acohido and Jon Swartz LAS VEGAS -- The hot new technology behind slick Web pages has suddenly become the hot new tool for cybercriminals. The technology, Ajax coding and Web tools, enables popular websites such as Google Maps and MySpace.com to come alive.

ATLANTA, July 27 /PRNewswire/ -- S.P.I. Dynamics, Inc.

An email worm that runs entirely in the browser and spreads using JavaScript calls to back-end web services has hit Yahoo! Inc's webmail service.