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In an effort to appease critics and regulators, Microsoft has announced it will open its controversial Passport authentication service to competing companies. The software company said it would make Passport interoperable to create a true universal sign-in platform. “The challenge of providing universal single sign-in is larger than any one company,” said Bob Muglia, group […]

A consortium of storage vendors has banded together to offer free “best effort” technical support to companies that lost business data in the Sept. 11 World Trade Center disaster. The consortium calls itself the RecoverNY Data Service, and has established a hotline at 1-800-859-8559 and a Web site at www.recoverNYdata.com. RecoverNY provides an e-mail form […]

WASHINGTON – An unlikely political coalition united Thursday against attempts by the government to undermine civil liberties in the name of fighting terrorism. “I think weve all learned the unfortunate lesson … that you cant trust anybody,” said Mort Halperin, a senior fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations, at a crowded news conference announcing […]

In the first major smart card security deal since the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, the U.S. Army has announced that it will buy 60,000 smart card readers from SchlumbergerSema, the technology subsidiary of Schlumberger Ltd. Although the purchase is part of the Department of Defenses long-planned smart card implementation program, analysts believe the renewed focus […]

WASHINGTON, D.C. – In a joint filing today, Microsoft sought to narrow the scope of punishments aimed at it for antitrust violations, while the Department of Justice asked for a speedy resolution to the case. Microsoft and the DOJ sparred in the Joint Status Report over dramatically different interpretations of an appeals courts remand that […]

The U.S. Department of Justice wants its wiretapping and other surveillance capabilities vastly expanded, with the Internet and other modern communications technologies among the targets of the governments new war on terrorism, according to experts who are familiar with a new Department of Justice proposal. The proposal should be officially released on Thursday said a […]

WASHINGTON, D.C.– A prominent senator has been toiling to cobble together legislation that would limit the degree to which the hunt for terrorists could infringe on Americans civil liberties, as the U.S. Department of Justice prepares to unveil a wish-list of antiterrorism measures that civil libertarians expect will give authorities sweeping new Internet wiretapping and […]

Privacy isnt looking quite so sacred anymore. Gone are the good old days of worry over e-commerce customer lists and fears of unauthorized FBI snooping into the lives of average Americans. From the ruins of the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, a bitter new reality has emerged: Our very lives are at stake. The […]

Slowing demand for IT services has prompted NTT Verio to close some 25 data centers and lay off 750 of its 3,000 employees. The decision follows a continuing slump in network services demand. Verio executives said the facility closures and layoffs are aimed at getting Verio to profitability earlier. The company is also aiming to […]

It looks as though the NIMDA worm has yet to derail Internet performance. Despite some dire early predictions that the sophisticated program would clog networks by today, both Keynote Systems and Matrix.net report essentially normal traffic flows on the Net. Keynote checked Web-traffic flows at 7 p.m. last night and saw nothing unusual. “Keynote Systems […]