Michael Myser

A day before the deadline set by Oracle for PeopleSoft shareholders to accept its takeover bid, PeopleSoft founder and CEO David Duffield issued a letter defending stock sales he made in late 2003. In the letter to Oracle Corp. chief executive Larry Ellison, Duffield said he “recently learned that Oracle and its representatives are circulating […]

Recognizing the growing need for anti-spyware solutions in the enterprise, Computer Associates International Inc. on Monday announced new software designed to tackle unwanted spyware, adware and trojans. CAs new eTrust PestPatrol Anti-Spyware r5 allows system administrators to scan the enterprise for traces of spyware, identify it, and remotely clean it wherever it may reside, without […]

The electronic currency site that the Source Code Club said it will use to accept payment for Cisco Systems Inc.s firewall source code is confident it can track down the perpetrators. Dr. Douglas Jackson, chairman of E-gold Ltd., which runs www.e-gold.com, said the company is already monitoring accounts it believes belong to the Source Code […]

As adware and spyware companies hoping to do business in the United States clean up their act in response to the Internet Spyware Prevention Act (I-SPY) recently passed by the House of Representatives, anti-spyware vendors are trying to stay ahead of a growing onslaught of malicious software developed outside of U.S. jurisdiction. “I think the […]

The presidential election has nothing on the debates in the anti-spyware industry. An announcement last week from adware vendor WhenU and anti-spyware company Aluria Software has raised red flags in the anti-spyware community. As part of its new “Spyware SAFE Certification Program,” Aluria gave passing marks to WhenU, which historically has been characterized as spyware […]

Companies that fail to register multiple domain names and extensions under their brand can fall victim to cyber-squatters, confuse their customers or open up their customers to Web and e-mail scams from hackers running look-alike sites. They also run the risk of sending sensitive e-mail to unintended recipients, as the Bush-Cheney 04 re-election campaign found […]

Continuing a hot streak for e-mail security vendors, IronPort Systems Inc. on Monday announced a $45 million funding round. The San Bruno, Calif., company is just the latest recipient of venture capital this year in a space thats growing up quickly. “Were starting to see some maturation of the technology,” said Jonathan Penn, an analyst […]

Google Inc. said on Thursday it fixed a flaw in its site that could allow outsiders to launch phishing attacks based on Googles familiar interface, and is working on a second fix for another similar vulnerability. The flaw, which was discovered and posted to Symantec Corp.s Bugtraq security site on Tuesday. The bulletin demonstrated the […]

While Microsoft quietly pursues developing new servers for its Microsoft Office applications, Sun Microsystems StarOffice and the open-source OpenOffice.org are taking another route with their applications. Citing security, portability and deployment benefits, both see offering server-based applications as a future option. In fact, Sun took it so seriously that it went down this path several […]

Microsoft on Tuesday announced its latest round of patches, focusing almost exclusively on flaws in older operating systems, servers and applications that were largely covered by Microsoft XP Service Pack 2 (SP2). Nevertheless, this months “Patch Tuesday” was busy, with Microsoft releasing 10 security bulletins for various vulnerabilities, a majority of which could allow for […]

Microsoft is expected to release its latest enterprise instant messaging server, Live Communications Server 2005, later this month, and industry analysts suggest that its enhanced capabilities signal a concerted and not entirely surprising effort to move into the telephony and VOIP (voice over IP) market. “They want to go into a new market where they […]

Just a week after Microsoft released a patch to plug a security flaw in the way at least 13 of its programs handle the JPEG imaging format, code appeared on the Internet on Wednesday showing how to exploit those holes. Though this exploit code alone is not a threat, it will likely be a jumping-off […]