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Spectra Logic last week unveiled a new entry-level version of its tape library aimed at helping boost the companys midrange market. The Spectra T120 tape library offers can handle up to 1,000 cartridges in a single frame, said Sharon Isaacson, senior product manager for the Boulder, Colo.-based company. One T120 can be carved into LTO-2 […]

Symantec Corp. next week will announce the formation of its Enterprise Administration Business Unit. This new group will spearhead the companys initiative to combine new and existing products that address storage, systems and security management. At the Storage Networking World conference last week, the company demonstrated Version 2.0 of V2i, its data protection application originally […]

The Storage Networking Industry Association (SNIA) last week said the Object-based Storage Device (OSD) specification has completed the American National Standards Institutes (ANSI) ballot process. An OSD is a device that stores, retrieves and interprets objects, which are containers that house application data and storage attributes used to store files, database records and e-mail. Experts […]

When the Beagle virus popped up last month and threatened to infect millions of computers, the folks at Symantec took the problem straight to Sara. Sara, the affectionate name for Symantec AntiVirus Research Automation, automatically screens thousands of files flying around the Internet that are suspected of containing new virus strains. First built in 1995 […]

MCI has announced a deal with Aventail Corp. to deliver SSL VPN technology that will enable customers to connect to corporate networks from any Internet connection using any computer with a Web browser, MCI said. The company also plans to introduce new features to its Remote Access suite of services, including technology to detect online […]

NetScreen Technologies Inc. this week unveiled a series of SSL-based meeting appliances designed to provision secure online meetings, remote desktop support, and conferencing sessions across platforms without the recurring costs of hosted services. The appliances improve upon traditional approaches to Web meetings by applying a secure SSL VPN approach to user-to-user interactions, according to Krishna […]

An anti-spam group has proposed a new “dot-mail” top level domain that direct mailers and other companies could use it to send their e-mails straight to users in-boxes without fear that they will be quarantined or discarded by software filters that confuse those e-mails with spam. Companies with dot-mail addresses would have to ask e-mail […]

Microsoft officials have said they are ready to cut some “minor” Longhorn Windows features to get the already late operating-system release out the door by 2006, but has been steadfast in its refusal to offer specifics. However, public and private sources are beginning to share details of how the tortuous Windows roadmap is being re-jiggered. […]

There is an apparent seeding of a new Bagle worm variant, Bagle.X, currently in progress. While this seeding appears to be progressing at a slow rate, previous versions of the Bagle worms have been seeded in a similar manner and have witnessed great success. Bagle.X is 7824 bytes, is packed with FSG and has an […]

Editors Note: A security alert is presented daily to eWEEK.com readers by iDefense Inc., a security research company based in Reston, Va. /zimages/5/72206.gif Severity: High Analysis: There is an apparent seeding of a new Bagle worm variant, Bagle.X, currently in progress. While this seeding appears to be progressing at a slow rate, previous versions of […]

The worm spreads via email, and sits inside an attached Zip file. According to security firm iDefense, if the malicious attachment is executed, BugBear.E “performs a mass-mailing and installs a keylogger on the local system to steal sensitive information.” iDefense is warning that “considerable precautions are warranted due to the success and payloads of former […]

Editors Note: A security alert is presented daily to eWEEK.com readers by iDefense Inc., a security research company based in Reston, Va. /zimages/3/72206.gif Severity: High Analysis: BugBear.E, aka BugBear.C, Tanatos.E and PWSteal Hooker Trojan, is a new variant of the BugBear worm discovered in the early morning hours of April 6, 2004. Updated anti-virus software […]