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Researcher: WMF Exploit Sold Underground for $4,000

Virus hunters combing through the wreckage of the zero-day WMF (Windows Metafile) attacks have found evidence that exploit code was being peddled by Russian...

Symantec Warns of Serious Hole in Sygate SMS Product

Symantec said Feb. 1 that a high-risk hole could allow a remote attacker to take over vulnerable Sygate Management Servers. The company issued a patch...

Google Doesn’t Go To Congress

Google sent a letter rather than make a personal appearance at today's Congressional Human Rights Caucus.It seems Google, Yahoo and others support industry guidelines...

A Capital Idea In China

With the postscript "Enjoy the liberation while you can, citizens," the Web site Crypticide recently unleashed a way to beat Google Inc.'s censorship of...

More Cell Phone Use, Less Medical Error, Study Shows

A new study suggests that despite a small risk of cell phones interfering with medical equipment, their use by medical personnel actually lowered the...

Sun Seeks Linux Customers

Sun Microsystems, fighting hard to stem the tide of migrations off its Solaris operating system, is now aggressively moving to try and lure customers...

Will OpenSolaris and Linux Soon Be Trading Code?

Sun Microsystems puzzles me sometimes. Take, for instance, Sun president Jonathan Schwartzs recent announcement that Sun might dual-license Solaris under its own CDDL (Common Development...

Google? Linux? Goobuntu? Balderdash!

It wasnt long ago that we were all excited about the possibility that Google was going to get into the office suite software business....

OpenPages Tackles Enterprise Risk Management

OpenPages on Jan. 30 announced the availability of OpenPages ORM, its new risk management technology that allows companies to prevent unexpected outcomes by identifying,...

Linux Powers Military Ground Vehicle

iRobot used embedded Linux to build an autonomous UGV (unmanned ground vehicle) aimed at military scouting, guarding, and hauling applications. The "R-Gator" is based on...