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Squashing bugs with an Apple fix a day
Insight Open-source developer Landon Fuller explains why he is devoting his time to patching flaws found by the Month of Apple Bugs.
Cybercrooks duel antivirus firms--and each other
News Net criminals are fighting the good guys--and other bad guys--as they pursue more financial gain, Kaspersky Labs says.
Tags: Data security, Viruses and worms, Security applications/tools, Antivirus software
Top executives face personalized e-mail attacks
News MessageLabs reports a surge in malicious spam aimed at individuals in senior management positions--and their family members.
Tags: Spam and phishing, Spam
Firefox 3 gets a release date
News The open-source browser will be available for download next week, says Mozilla.
Tags: Web browsers, Open Source, Mozilla Corp., Mozilla Firefox, Mozilla Firefox 3.0, Tom Espiner, U.K., marketing, blog, Web Site
Date set for restart of Large Hadron Collider
News CERN's ground-breaking particle accelerator, which was shut down after a malfunction caused a leak of liquid helium, is scheduled to begin operating again in April.
Tags: CERN, Accelerator, grid computing, Switzerland, Tom Espiner, theory, scientist, Large Hadron Collider, director, France
HP patches 'critical' flaw in 100 laptop models
News Hewlett-Packard has released a patch which disables its Info Center shortcut tool, used in 100 different HP laptop models, in an attempt to work around a design flaw.
Tags: PC security
Ubuntu makes second stab at enterprise servers
News Canonical has unveiled its second enterprise-oriented server edition of Ubuntu, with performance, stability and security tweaks.
Tags: Open source, Server platforms, Linux server OS, Security, Internet Access, Ubuntu, Server, VPN, enterprise server, Mark Shuttleworth
Mac Mini offer quickly dropped
News Less than 12 hours after the promotion was launched, Apple pulls 30-day trial offer for the Mac Mini. Speculation as to why abounds.
Symantec eyes ID management
News CEO John Thompson also lists encryption and services for backups, archiving and e-mail as possible new markets.
Tags: PC security, Data security, Authentication and encryption, Security Management, Acquisitions
Industry welcomes Chrome as 'business as usual'
News Companies such as Mozilla and Canonical have extended a welcome to Google's browser, while Microsoft says Internet Explorer can rest on its record.
Tags: Web browsers, Open source, Security, Google Chrome, Web Browser, Google Inc., Ubuntu, Mozilla Corp., Mozilla Firefox, performance
Microsoft exec rebuts hypervisor security claims
News Redmond's security strategist Steve Riley says claims that the company's hypervisor software could be maliciously replaced on PCs without administrators knowing, is "incorrect".
Tags: Security, Virtualization, Operating systems, Business applications, Microsoft Corp., Hypervisor, software, network, researcher, knowledge
Google launches online security tools
News The search giant's SaaS security technology for e-mail filtering, encryption and archiving has been developed through last year's acquisition, Postini.
Tags: Authentication and encryption, Data security, Data backup, disaster recovery, SMB
Microsoft rallies developers behind Vista
News As it readies Vista for launch, Microsoft is looking to build momentum behind new applications--and trying to avoid the pitfalls of incompatibilities.
Tags: Data security, Security, Microsoft Windows, Business applications
Hacked ATMs let criminals steal cash, PINs
News Malicious software has been found on Eastern European ATMs that allows criminals to steal account data and PINs and even empty the machine of its cash, a computer forensics expert said.
Tags: Hacking, Antivirus software, ATM, Malware, Ukraine, Storage, Machine, Europe, computer, compliance
ICANN tests global domain names
News The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers plans to test Arabic, Chinese and other non-Roman characters in domain names in the second half of this year.
Tags: Web sites, Domain names
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