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Satyam acts to address World Bank remarks
News The Indian IT services company wants its former client to withdraw and apologize for recent bribery allegations, amid evaluation of "possible options".
Tags: Services, IT outsourcing, World Bank Group, Group, Statement, IT Services, World Bank, IT services company, malicious attack, Satyam Computer Services
Experts: Don't rely solely on patches
News Following unresolved ActiveX vulnerability in Internet Explorer, security experts say users should take extra precaution and not rely on critical patches alone.
Tags: PC security, Security implementation/standards, Web browsers, Security, Hole, Web Browser, software company, Patch, malicious attack, Microsoft Internet Explorer
Asia CIOs urged to act on compliance
News CIOs in the Asia-Pacific region cannot afford to adopt a wait-and-see attitude toward regulatory compliance, says security expert.
Tags: Regulations, Sarbanes-Oxley
UK intelligence site breached by hacker
News Intelligence agency has closed up a cross-site scripting vulnerability on its Web site after details of the flaw were published on a hacker forum.
Tags: Authentication and encryption, Data security, Hacking, Spokesperson, Flaw, malicious attack, search tool, Hacker, agency, Web Site
Apple releases multiple OS X security updates
News It is download time again for Mac OS X users, as 31 new security-related fixes for both Tiger and Leopard were made available by Apple.
Tags: Operating systems
Word flaw hit with zero-day attack
News "Extremely critical flaw" in Microsoft Word 2000, which has no released patch, could lead to remote execution of code.
Tags: Viruses and worms, Security Management, Security applications/tools, Security implementation/standards, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Office, windows alerts
Wall Street shrugs, but Yahoo email an attack casualty
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Yahoo claims outage a deliberate attack
News A three-hour outage Monday on Yahoo was the result of a malicious attack intentionally aimed at disabling the service, according to company executives.
FBI vows to combat Net terrorism
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Denial of service attacks paralyze leading sites
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Attacks cripple leading Web sites
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Why P2P will take big biz by storm
News COMMENTARY--The furor of publicity surrounding Napster's peer-to-peer (P2P) technology in the consumer market has fueled a hunger for P2P in the enterprise.
Yahoo grapples with problems
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XML spells more security headaches
News The growing popularity of XML and Web services create fresh targets for attack.
Learning to embrace Net without fear
Blogs Like some others out there, I was terrified of the dark and avoided watching horror flicks growing up. But, as I mat...
