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Another Black Eye for Microsoft Patch Creation Process

Its being called the "story of a dumb patch." A private security research firm has published an advisory with details on a fundamental mistake made...

Rootkit Takes Aim at AOL

Security researchers have identified a rootkit being spread through AOLs popular instant messaging client and AOL chat rooms. Bundled within the previously identified W32/Sdbot-ADD worm,...

MS Office 12 BI Makes for Risky Business

You are likely to be a member of your organizations stealth IT group whether or not you are aware of it. If you have...

Coming Soon to a Kernel Near You: GPL 3

The Free Software Foundation is just weeks away from announcing the roadmap and process that will govern the release of the first draft of...

Intel to Double Its Dual-Core Xeons

Intel Corp. is expected to launch its second dual-core server processor, next week. The Santa Clara, Calif. chip maker will roll out its first dual...

NTP Patent Suit Threatens BlackBerry Service

When the U.S. Supreme Court denied BlackBerry maker Research In Motion Ltd.s attempt to stay NTP Inc.s patent infringement judgment against the company, it...

Petition Demands Privacy for Electronic Health Records

Health information technology legislation is swirling around Capitol Hill this week, and theres no shortage of recommendations of how it should be done. Privacy advocacy...

NY Court Bans Feds from Tracking Cell Phones

A federal judge in New York has rejected the Department of Justices request to track peoples cell phone information without first providing probable cause...

Yahoo Cozies Up to Bloggers

Yahoo announced a new feature for its My Web 2.0 "social search engine" on Friday thats meant to appeal to bloggers and Web site...

RIM Inks Patent License Agreement with Forgent

BlackBerry maker Research in Motion Ltd. on Thursday signed a deal to license data compression technology from Forgent Networks that covers the popular JPEG...