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If you think working on Wall Street is a drag, head on over to Institutional Investors “Run For Your Money,” a web-based interactive game designed to inject some fun into your serious day-to-day life. The game was created as a thank-you note to users of the companys website. The goal of the game is to […]

On Friday, Microsoft Corp. went public with an executive decision thats been brewing for the past couple of weeks. The company decided in order to keep Longhorn client ship dates from slipping further, it would remove the crux of Longhorn – the new Windows File System (WinFS) from the operating system. Read about Microsofts decision […]

Microsoft announced on Friday, as expected, that it is cutting some of its planned Longhorn features in order to get the desktop version of the product out the door by 2006. The Windows File System (WinFS)—technology that was set to simplify information storage and retrieval—wont make it into the final, shipping versions of Longhorn client, […]

Veritas Software Corp. will boost its investment in China to promote the companys utility computing software. “China represents a key opportunity for growth as Veritas continues to invest in sales, service and engineering resources to ensure customer success in this fast growing market,” said Veritas CEO Gary Bloom. The companys plans for the Asia-Pacific region […]

GFI Software Ltd. this week announced a new network security tool that offers administrators network-wide control of which users can plug in USB or other removable storage devices and access CDs and floppies. It also allows administrators to control the connection of devices that can register storage in Windows, such as MP3 players, smart phones, […]

Fuji Photo Film Co. Ltd. this week announced plans to sell dual-layer DVD+R media by the fourth quarter this year. The DVD+R DL discs will have a capacity of 8.5GB and work up to 2.4X speed. The company did not announce pricing details. Read the full story at IDG.com.sg

EMC Corp. dismissed claims that its Centera platform was susceptible to a flaw uncovered in the popular MD5 algorithm. French researcher Antoine Joux presented information on a weakness discovered in MD5 at the Crypto 2004 conference. The MD5 algorithm is used to convert an arbitrarily long data stream into a digest of fixed size. It […]

With Windows XP Service Pack 2 (SP2) done, it was high time for the Windows team to make a choice. It could push the delivery date out (yet again) so as to incorporate all the new features it has been promising for the past few years. Or it could scale back the feature list and […]

Symantec Corp. this week said it discovered a virus that targets AMDs 64-bit processors. Dubbed Shruggle, the virus is written in AMD64 assembly code and it can infect only one system at a time by appending itself to 64-bit executable files. Oliver Friedrichs, senior manager of Symantecs virus response team, said this is a “proof-of-concept” […]

Enterprises will turn to outside firms for 90 percent of their security by 2010, according to Yankee Group. In the past, enterprises focused on buying affordable security devices with a specific focus. But government regulations and security holes are now driving companies to managed security service providers (MSSPs). Vendors who sell vulnerability scanning devices will […]

Security researchers at K-Otik discovered a vulnerability in Nullsofts WinAmp media player that can allow hackers to execute arbitrary programs. The exploit takes advantage of insufficient restrictions on WinAmp skin zip files (.wsz). WinAmp versions 3.x and 5.x are susceptible to the flaw. Read the full story at InternetNews.com

The Secret Service and the CERT Coordination Center last week released a study of insider attacks against financial organizations. Teams from the two organizations analyzed information on 23 incidents committed by 26 people. The analysis ranged from the perpetrators background and planning through discovery and response to the breach. The report said most incidents required […]