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Google Maps Are Inconsistently Edited
Much ado about maps this weekend: Another thread on Slashdot discusses how some potentially sensitive areas, like this nuclear facility in Boston, are blurred...
Vendors Begin Plugging Products for RSA Show
The avalanche of new security products launched for the RSA Conference 2007 has already begun, even though the show itself does not kick off...
Parity 3.5 Reins in Malware by Taking Control of Desktop
Bit9s Parity 3.5 is a fine host-based intrusion prevention system that works not by identifying and blocking malware before it touches the system but...
How to Spam Google Maps
Upon learning that satellites would be flying overhead to capture images used in Google Maps, a couple living in Sydney, Australia, decided to spam...
Red Hat Signs New Enterprise Client
Red Hat, facing increased competition from the Novell/Microsoft alliance and Oracle, has won a new enterprise customer: Union Bank of California.
Union Bank, which is...
Symantec Buys Asset Management Specialist Altiris
Symantec has added to the slew of technologies it will offer as part of its unified security architecture, announcing a deal on Jan. 29...
Smart Card Alliance Releases Security, Privacy Guidelines
The Smart Card Alliance, which represents a plethora of companies and governmental entities with a vested interest in the successful marriage of RFID and...
Cenzic, Borland Team Up on Secure Application Development
Security solution provider Cenzic has integrated its Hailstorm software into the newly available Borland Gauntlet—a move that seeks to help IT organizations to proactively...
Tech Mergers, Acquisitions Jump 48%, Helped by Private Equity
Technology mergers and acquisitions jumped 48 percent in 2006, helped by high liquidity worldwide and an increase in buyouts outside the United States.
Technology M&A...
Feds Hesitate to Adopt Telework
Just 140,694 federal workers telecommuted in 2005, 7.7 percent of the federal work force and less than one-fifth (19 percent) of those who were...