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Robo Cop-Out

Lay the blame for the collapse of the Internet economy on poorly designed computers and applications that lack a human focus.Thats the message put...

HP Takes Aim at Small Biz

Hewlett-Packard Co. earlier this month became the first large PC maker to try its hand at the nascent PC subscription utility-based computing model.The Palo...

Compaq Latest to Cut Staff, Lower Estimates

Stung by falling sales and shrinking market share, Compaq Computer Corp. is abandoning what it called its "more prudent" sales approach and is now...

A Privacy Assessment Tool Offers One Answer

The online-privacy game has many rules, but few ways to keep score.Fiderus Corp., a privacy consulting firm based in Cary, N.C., seeks to address...

Surviving in an Insecure E-World

As if we needed another one, the vulnerabilities recently found in the widely used Berkeley Internet Name Domain server (see www.cert.org/summaries/CS-2001-01.html) should serve as...

Plugging Holes

A spate of recent computer attacks indicates that software fixes distributed after the fact cannot make the Internet safe, and are themselves too numerous...

Corporate Privacy: Disunited Front

Even as corporate foes of federal privacy regulation champion the release of new data detailing the lofty cost of such rules to businesses and...

Products Block Hacker Attacks When ISPs Use Them

Denial-of-service attacks, typically launched by malicious hackers from commandeered servers, can be stopped with security products that can detect and block outgoing attacks, security...

Exchange SP 1: More Secure, Scalable

An upcoming service pack for Microsoft Corp.s Exchange Server 2000 will offer corporate IT managers new scalability and security features.The added functionality in Exchange...

Securant Adds Control to Security

Securant Technologies Inc. is looking to take some of the heat off overworked security administrators with the launch this week of its Enterprise Transparency...