Monthly Archives: January 2007
VLC Media Player Bug Bites at Apple
UPDATE: The second flaw warning in the Month of Apple Bugs project is for a remote code execution issue affecting the cross-platform VLC media...
MS Office Student and Teacher and Pirate Edition
Over at Microsoft Watch, our own Joe Wilcox has penned an interesting post about how popular Microsoft Office Student and Teacher Edition has become...
CheckFree to Acquire Carreker for $206M
CheckFree announced Jan. 2 that it has expanded its software division with the acquisition of Carreker for $206 million. The deal is expected to...
Survey: Talent Management a Top Concern
Finding, developing and keeping talent are among the top concerns for HR executives for 2007, according to a survey released by ORC Worldwide, a...
Linux Group to Simplify Software Installation
Installing a new application on Linux can be challenging, even for experts. Now, the LSB (Linux Standard Base) project and its parent organization, the...
Month of Apple Bugs, Meet Month of Patches
Its officially a cat-and-mouse race to exploit—and fix—security vulnerabilities affecting Apple Computers Mac operating system.
Less than 24 hours after the release of working exploits...
EIA Promotes the Latest in Recycling: Electronics
When consumers are done with their electronic products, most of them will either throw the particular device away or put it in a storage...
OSIsoft Unveils High Availability Data History System
Enterprise storage management software provider OSIsoft unveiled Jan. 2 an update to its High Availability PI System, the companys flagship real-time data historian platform.
The...
Research: IM Malware Attacks on the Rise
With 41 new attacks carried out during the month of December alone, 2006 proved to be a significant growth year for threats distributed over...
Botnet Basics
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