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Yahoo Ships Silent Fix for ActiveX Flaw

Yahoo has silently pushed out a patch for a critical vulnerability affecting users of its Yahoo Assistant browser add-on.According to an alert from "Sowhat,"...

Big Vendors Still Very Tardy on Fixing Security Flaws

Some of the biggest names in the IT software business still are very lax when it comes to fixing security holes reported by third-party...

Expanding the Reach of Least User Privilege

For several years, I've been a big proponent of operating Windows-based desktop computers in a Least User Privilege mode, removing Administrator (or Power User)...

From the Beginning, It Was Never Going to Work

Of course it's easy to say it now, and The Station will accept any email guff on this topic in retrospect: There was no...

Fox Hounds Google Watch on Microhoo

During an appearance on Fox Business News this morning (following, rather frighteningly, Fox's score of Bill Gates and Warren Buffet live from Omaha), I...

Sun Delivers OpenSolaris, NetBeans Updates

Sun Microsystems is kicking off this JavaOne week with a host of news regarding its OpenSolaris operating system and NetBeans integrated development environment.Company officials...

Good Worms Are a Bad Idea

Some bad ideas seem to live on forever. One of the big ones in computers is to use hacker tactics to perform white-hat operations...

Tech Products Needed For Hard Times

What are the tech products or services you need to help you through a difficult economy? A food co-op tied to a social network?...

The Shelf: The Final Supply Chain Frontier

When I was first introduced to the world of retail IT and business process as an editor with another publication in 1998, I was...

Deutsche Telekom to Buy Sprint?

By Nikola RotscherothFRANKFURT (Reuters)-Shares in Deutsche Telekom retreated, and Sprint Nextel's stock advanced on Monday amid media reports that Germany's largest phone company is...