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Hackers Serve Rootkits with Bagles

Malicious hackers have fitted rootkit features into the newest mutants of the Bagle worm, adding a stealthy new danger to an already virulent threat. According...

Accenture Stumbles on U.K. Health Work

Accenture said it will lose $450 million in its outsourcing deal with the United Kingdom National Health Service, the company said March 28 in...

Registry Aims to Cut Phishing Bait

As businesses continue to struggle with criminals trying to hijack their online content in order to dupe people with so-called phishing schemes, one company...

Need Open-Source Funding? Talk to the OSDL

The OSDL (Open Source Development Labs), a global consortium dedicated to accelerating the adoption of Linux and open source software, announced March 29 that...

Patent Trolls Lurk in Supreme Court Case

The question of how to appropriately declaw so-called "patent trolls" took center stage March 29 in an important patent infringement case being argued before...

ID Theft Bill Readies for a Vote

The House Committee on Energy and Commerce has approved an identity theft bill that would set a national standard for data brokers efforts to...

Qualcomm Files Third Broadcom Suit

Qualcomm launched a third lawsuit against former partner Broadcom as the two companies continue to expand their respective claims of trade secret misappropriation and...

SMBs Will Get Serious About Storage in 2006, IDC Says

Inching their way as a primary target by storage vendors that have traditionally catered to larger enterprises, SMBs are on track to gobble up...

Skype Faces $4.1 Billion Racketeering Lawsuit

Internet phone service provider Skype Technologies said it plans to defend itself against explosive allegations that its technology is actually owned by another company,...

Saddam Hussein Needs an Editor

(Warning: For now, both Web sites cited in this dispatch seem to be overwhelmed by all the attention.)Here's a job for you: Saddam Hussein's...