Ryan Naraine

Six Apart Ltd., the small software firm founded by childhood sweethearts Ben and Mena Trott, is set to make a big splash with the acquisition of Danga Interactive Inc.s LiveJournal blogging network. The deal, which will be announced on Thursday, involves an undisclosed amount of cash and stock, eWEEK.com has confirmed. The acquisition gives the […]

Almost a month after Microsoft released a fix for a security issue in the WINS (Windows Internet Name Service) name server, malicious exploits continue to haunt tardy network administrators. According to an alert from the SANS ISC (Internet Storm Center), there has been a startling increase in hacker probes directed at TCP port 42 and […]

The first drop of Microsoft Corp.s “A1” security sauce has been spilled internally and its all systems go for a full-scale beta launch of an anti-spyware application within the next month. A spokesperson for the software giant confirmed that a repackaged—and rebranded—version of the Giant AntiSpyware tool was released to employees for testing ahead of […]

Network security vendor Symantec Corp. has rolled out fixes for three high-risk security holes in its Nexland Firewall appliances. The flaws could put users at risk of security bypass, manipulation of data and denial-of-service attacks, according to an advisory from research outfit Secunia, which rates the vulnerabilities as “highly critical.” Symantec confirmed that the vulnerabilities […]

Another mutant of the Santy worm has started squirming, this one depositing a so-called patch for vulnerable Web forums powered by the phpBB software. The “Anti-Santy-Worm V4,” discovered by anti-virus vendor F-Secure, works very much like the original Santy worm, which used Google search results to randomly find—and deface—phpBB forums. Google has since tweaked its […]

Microsoft on Thursday rushed to put the kibosh on talk that it was abandoning the single sign-on Passport identity management service. But even as company officials insist that Passport “will be around for a long time,” it has become increasingly clear that a series of security-related hiccups has ruined consumer trust in the Web-based tool. […]

The state of California is mounting a legal challenge to a recent Federal Communications Commission ruling that VOIP phone services sold by Vonage Holdings Corp. were exempt from state and local regulations and tariffs. In a petition for review filed with the U.S. Court of Appeal for the Ninth Circuit, the Public Utilities Commission of […]

Anti-virus vendors are bracing for a deluge of new and potentially dangerous mutants of the Cabir worm on smart phones running the Symbian Series 60 software. Thats because the source code used to create the original Cabir worm has been posted on the Internet by a member of an international virus-writing group. According to an […]

Microsoft Corp. on Monday chided a private research outfit for releasing proof-of-concept code for three potentially serious flaws in the Windows operating system, warning that irresponsible disclosure was not in the best interest of consumers. The software giants rebuke comes five days after a Chinese community group called Xfocus Team said it discovered several high-risk […]

Time Warner Inc., the parent company of America Online Inc., has snapped up approximately 1.5 million shares of Net2Phone, which amounts to a 3.1 percent stake in the company, according to a filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission. The move comes just two weeks after AOL announced plans for a voice-over-IP rollout in Canada […]

The Apache Software Foundation has shut down the top-level Avalon project. Apache Avalon, which began in 1999 to provide Java software for component and container programmers, has been split into several sub-projects, according to a resolution passed during last months ApacheCon conference. Foundation officials said that the Avalon 4.x framework will now be housed inside […]

Digital media firm RealNetworks Inc. reacted with glee to a European Union judges order that Microsoft Corp. immediately strip the Windows Media Player from its operating system in Europe, saying that compliance with the ruling is “a big victory for consumers.” In an interview with eWEEK.com, RealNetworks deputy general counsel Dave Stewart said the ECs […]