Monthly Archives: March 2007
Lexmark Color Laser Printers To Support Mentalixs Fingerprint Platform
Lexmark International Inc. announced March 14 that it will support Mentalix Inc.s CardPrint API (Application Program Interface) Toolkit, a platform that provides electronic fingerprint...
Microsoft Investigates IE 7 Vulnerability
Microsoft is investigating a new flaw uncovered in Internet Explorer 7 that opens users up to phishing attacks.The vulnerability was discovered by noted Israel-based...
WellPoint Recovers Medical, Personal Data
An unencrypted CD containing personal information of 75,000 customers of Empire Blue Cross and Blue Shield has been recovered.
The CD was apparently lost in...
Can a Rootkit Be Certified for Vista?
NEW YORK—Forget what Microsoft says about Vista being the most secure version of Windows yet. More to the point, what do the hackers think...
Emulex Introduces New Accelerator for SAN Virtualization
Storage infrastructure vendor Emulex on March 15 introduced a new appliance for data centers that provides acceleration for SAN-based storage virtualization applications.
Emulex, based in...
Gateway Offers AMD Processors in New Server
Gateway is jumping back into the server arena with a new tower system that will sport either dual- or single-core Advanced Micro Devices processors.
The...
European Union Will Not Regulate RFID—For Now
HANNOVER, Germany—The European Commission has put off for at least a year any decision to regulate radio-frequency identification technology, EU Information Society and Media...
DRM Is Dead
Steve Jobs made headlines in February when he came out against digital rights management (DRM), the copy protection schemes forced onto music tracks by...
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 Hits the Street
The release of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 at a media event in San Francisco on March 14 reflects not only years of engineering...
Apple Tries to Plug Holes in Mac OS X Security
Apple issued a security update late Tuesday to plug dozens of security holes in both the client and server versions of Mac OS X...