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Debit Card Fraud Tied to OfficeMax Breach

Debit card fraud that has affected customers at a number of credit unions in central Massachusetts is linked to transactions at office supply retailer...

Open-Source Software to Aid Cancer Researchers

Records of cancer patients nationwide may soon be networked for researchers to access, and now a new study has found a way to de-identify...

Microsoft Bolsters Toolbar via Onfolio Buyout

Microsoft announced that it has purchased Onfolio, a maker of online information and content sharing tools, whose technology the software giant has already integrated...

OpenOffice Is 10 Years Behind MS Office? Thats Fine!

In an interview with Australian online technology newspaper IT Wire, Alan Yates, general manager of business strategy for Microsofts information worker group, said OpenOffice.org...

Debit Card Compromise Spreads to Massachusetts

Credit unions in central Massachusetts reported a rash of fraudulent debit card transactions March 8 in what appears to be a widening scandal involving...

NBCs Most Wanted Is Now a Possible Partner

A crackdown is a novel way to find a new business partner. But entertainment behemoth NBC Universals recent investigation of viral video Web sites may...

Symantec Pulls Plug on L0phtCrack

Symantec has quietly pulled the plug on sales of L0phtCrack, the venerable password auditing and recovery application. The decision to discontinue support for L0phtCrack, also...

GPL Experts Heat Up over Wasabis SarbOx Warning

You may never have even considered how the popular GPL open-source license might interact with the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002, but embedded systems seller...

Suns McNealy Stumps for Utility Computing

WASHINGTON—Thumping the open-source bible before an audience of government IT professionals on March 8, Sun Microsystems Chairman and CEO Scott McNealy warned that ongoing...

Enterprise CIOs See Brightest Hiring Prospects

Large enterprise businesses will be among the most likely to add significant numbers of new IT jobs during the second quarter of 2006, according...