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An executive at Symantec, the largest seller of endpoint-antivirus software, recently told The Wall Street Journal that antivirus technology “is dead” as a reliable defense against malware. While some media outlets have claimed that this official was repudiating the company’s antivirus technology, the company later said that the statement was meant as an acknowledgment that […]

Juniper Networks and Nokia Solutions and Networks announced they are bundling network virtualization and cloud offerings to create a solution aimed at mobile operators. Nokia will be bringing its Liquid Core technology to the table, while Juniper will be leveraging its MetaFabric data center architecture. Combining these offerings will give mobile operators a cloud-based infrastructure […]

An Android smartphone owner filed a lawsuit filed on May 1 against Google in federal court in San Jose, California. The suit is over Google’s alleged policies that require smartphone makers to load less-popular Google apps on devices if they want to pre-load more popular Google apps like YouTube on devices that run Android. The […]

While Microsoft officials said that they would no longer support Windows XP, the company has released an emergency out-of-band update for a zero-day vulnerability, identified as CVE-2014-1776, which has been affecting Internet Explorer. The flaw impacts versions 6, 7, 8, 9, 10 and 11 of the Web browser with a remote code execution vulnerability. Dustin […]

Sprint took the wraps off an improved version of the just-released HTC One M8. Sprint CEO Dan Hesse—along with HTC CEO Peter Chou, Spotify CEO Daniel Ek and Harman Kardon CEO Dinesh Paliwal—discussed key features of the HTC One M8-Harman Kardon edition of the new smartphone at a press event in New York. Sprint will […]

Mozilla has officially launched Firefox 29, which is the first major overhaul of the open-source browser’s user interface since Firefox 4 came out in March 2011. The Firefox overhaul was developed under the code name “Australis” and has been in beta development since March 20. Jonathan Nightingale, vice president of Firefox at Mozilla, told eWEEK […]

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Microsoft has been urging users to be cautious of a new unpatched security vulnerability that impacts multiple versions of the Internet Explorer Web browser. The flaw is known as CVE-2014-1776, and Internet Explorer versions 6, 7, 8, 9, 10 and 11 are all at risk from the remote code execution vulnerability. According to the software […]

A recent update pushed out for Microsoft Security Essentials caused major disruptions after it crashed many systems still running Windows XP, which only recently became unsupported by the software giant. When installed, many systems restarted and then failed to boot back up, displaying a cryptic error message. While the update has now been fixed, it […]

In the past, Federal Communications Commission officials have said defending net neutrality was a high priority. However, following its courtroom defeat to Verizon in January, the FCC has made new proposed rules on the topic that seem to suggest it may be more willing to compromise on the issue than net neutrality proponents are willing […]

Cisco Systems is launching new managed security services, as part of the company’s efforts to build out its larger data center capabilities. The newest aspect of Cisco’s security portfolio is its Managed Threat Defense. This is an on-premise system that leverages predictive analytics to detect and counter cyber-threats that may be on a customer’s networks. […]

In response to the highly publicized Heartbleed flaw, the OpenSSL project has come under intense scrutiny. As is common with the open-source development model, the open-source OpenBSD operating system community has forked the OpenSSL code and is creating a different version of an open-source cryptographic library, known as LibreSSL. OpenBSD founder Theo de Raadt explained […]