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Symantec Touts Professional Anti-Phishing Effort

Symantec is relaunching the anti-phishing industry group gained via its 2005 acquisition of WholeSecurity and promising to bring a more professional approach to the...

Levis New Style: RFID

Radio-frequency identification technology, also known as RFID, has its supporters and detractors. Both groups now have something to talk about. A working group of major...

Internet Explorer Security Problems Multiply

The list of serious unpatched vulnerabilities in Microsofts Internet Explorer browser keeps getting longer and longer. Less than a week after researcher Michal Zalewski went...

Trend Micro Updates Security Appliances

Trend Micro announced the latest iterations of its VirusWall network security appliances, promising increased ability for administrators to locate and address potential systems vulnerabilities...

Hunting Down Flaws, Fixes

Murphy tells Naraine about the need for open disclosure of all fixes included in every patch release, and what he thinks of Microsofts patching...

Cryptography Rides to the Notaries Rescue

To those who grew up in the electronic age, notarization of documents has the odor of antiquity and obsolescence.It is an ancient practice, but...

American Express: Beware Phony Log-In Screen

American Express card holders: Beware that pop-up log-in screen, even on the companys secure Web site. The credit card and travel services company has issued...

Remediation Software Automatically Detects Malware

To help ISPs reduce the cost of dealing with customers whose computers become infected with malware, Simplicita unveiled software that automatically detects and quarantines...

AttachmateWRQ to Buy NetIQ for $495 Million

Legacy system-integration software provider AttachmateWRQ, which itself is owned by an investment group, announced April 27 the acquisition of NetIQ for about $495 million,...

Irresponsible Bug Disclosure

Its a free country. Youre allowed to say all kinds of distasteful and offensive things, especially when youre telling the truth. And youre allowed...