Monthly Archives: July 2005
McAfee Shares Internal Web-Services Security Tool
Security firm McAfee is offering one of its internal tools to the enterprise community for free, with the aim of increasing Web services security...
CIOs Navigate a Restless Sea of Mergers
Jim Harding, CIO for the $4.1 billion health care company Henry Schein Inc., doesnt like taking risks with other peoples money. Especially not the...
DOJ Seeks More Details on Adobe-Macromedia Merger
The U.S. Department of Justice has made a second request to Adobe Systems Inc. and Macromedia Inc. for information and documentation regarding Adobes pending...
Security Watch: Trojans by E-Mail, Acrobat Exploits and More
New Trojan AttackThe United States Computer Emergency Readiness Team has received reports of an e-mail-based technique for spreading Trojan horse programs. Once opened, the...
Microsoft Irks Watchdogs with Claria Downgrade Explanation
Microsoft has broken its silence over the decision to downgrade the default recommendations in its Windows AntiSpyware product, insisting that "absolutely no exceptions" were...
Microsoft Testing New Hotmail Interface
Microsofts MSN business unit is trying to hook customers onto "Kahuna." Kahuna is code name for an upcoming version of Hotmail that will sport...
Oracle Unleashes Database 10g R2
Oracle Corp. let Release 2 of Database 10g out of the bag on Monday, promising tighter security and better performance and availability with the...
Zlib Security Bug Continues to Be Addressed
Vendors are continuing to address a security hole in the very popular Zlib data compression library.
Zlib is used in many third-party programs, and it...
Ballmer: Microsoft Wants a Bigger Piece of the Software, Services Pie
MINNEAPOLIS—Microsoft may love its partners. But that isnt stopping the company from continuing to encroach on areas that have traditionally been its partners turf.
At...
AirMagnet Boosts Wireless Network Security
AirMagnet this week will introduce an updated version of its wireless LAN security and management platform, which provides improved protection against unknown attacks, new...