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Audit Clears MS Phishing Filter as Privacy Risk

A third-party audit of the new phishing filter built into the Internet Explorer 7 browser and the MSN Toolbar has given the technology a...

Big Three Offer Glimpses of New Gaming Platforms

With all three major game console manufacturers—Sony, Nintendo and Microsoft—launching their new platforms within a year of each other, its never been a more...

With Compliance, Knowing Is Better Than Guessing

I was walking around the vendor showcase floor at a recent conference and was amazed at the number of vendors pushing compliance-related themes. Thats...

IBM Tries to Resuscitate Interest in Big Iron

Seventy-five percent of the college participants in IBMs "Master the Mainframe" competition, which ended Dec. 31, 2005, had never logged onto a mainframe before...

W3C Approves Web Services-Addressing Standard

The World Wide Web Consortium has approved the Web Services-Addressing specification as a standard. The standards organization announced on May 9 that Web Services-Addressing 1.0—consisting...

Sophos Details Flaw in Anti-Virus Products

Anti-virus specialist Sophos has reported the details of a vulnerability in its flagship product line that could leave affected computers open to outside attack. The...

PDF Security Compromised in Gmail?

PDF authors go to great lengths to protect their documents. But circumventing PDF security could be as easy as opening the document inside Googles...

Symantec Brass Tackles Complaints, Touts Progress

SAN FRANCISCO—Symantec will seek to extend its security protection beyond the client and infrastructure to encompass Web 2.0 models and data, top executives told...

Tech Support: How to Draw the Line

A poster on Ask Slashdot on May 8 requested advice on how to reduce or turn down requests for technical support requests, especially from...

SGI Files for Bankruptcy

Silicon Graphics is filing for bankruptcy protection as it continues a reorganization designed to bring the struggling hardware maker back to financial health. The Mountain...