Monthly Archives: April 2007
Apple Stitches Up 25 Holes in Mac OS X
Apple released 25 security patches for Mac OS X on Thursday, the most serious of which could allow a remote attacker to crash a...
Unpatched Macs Snatched from Hackers’ Clasp
Two shiny, new and delightfully unpatched Mac systems were sitting ducks at the CanSecWest security conference on April 19, while top-notch hackers were clustered...
Micron Debuts Low-Power Memory for Servers
According to a recent study released by the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBL), enterprise data center servers—including the mega-computers that power the Internet and...
Google Sued for Hyperlink Patent Infringement
Google is being sued by a software company for allegedly infringing on a patent for enhanced hyperlinks, Google Watch has learned.iLor, LLC, a Kentucky-based...
Researcher: Tools Will Help Personalize ID Theft by 2010
VANCOUVER, British Columbia—Hackers with scrounged-up data ask the same question as dogs whove caught the school bus: What do we do with it now?
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The Decline of Adware
Malware evolves. Like real software markets, if the opportunity declines then the purveyors will go elsewhere. Its well known, for example, that there are...
Microsoft Offers $3 Software Package for Developing Countries
Microsoft is expanding its "Unlimited Potential" initiative to include offering a software package, the Student Innovation Suite, to governments and students in emerging countries...
Why Does eBay Want StumbleUpon? To Promote Its Auctions
At first it didn't quite make sense to me why eBay would want to acquire StumbleUpon. eBay does auctions and sales. StumbleUpon does random...
Microsofts $3 Anti-Linux Weapon
In Beijing, Bill Gates announced this week that Microsofts "Unlimited Potential" initiative will now include offering a software package, the Student Innovation Suite, to...
Thunderbird 2 Flies Ahead, Racing Web Mail
The new version of Thunderbird, the free, open-source mail client from the organization behind the Firefox Web browser, is a nicely polished application that...