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Symantec Intros Integrated Gateway Security

Symantec introduced a new, integrated package of security applications for use with internal e-mail gateways. The Symantec Mail Security for SMTP 5.0 launch marks the...

Rootkits, Smarter Hackers Pose Growing Security Threats

If reports issued by several well-known anti-virus companies are on the money, IT administrators will continue to face new and sophisticated forms of malware...

Stop Data Theft in Its Tracks with Computrace

Absolute Softwares Computrace Data Protection provides some nice insurance for corporations, allowing them to wipe clean critical data from laptop computers stolen in crimes...

The Future of Phish Fighting

This weeks E-mail Authentication Summit in Chicago on April 19 reminds me of the Internet communitys failure to agree on an authentication standard. Efforts such...

Spam Attack Keeps Bagle Boiling

A new attack aimed at computers infected with the Bagle virus threatens to generate scads of spam e-mail campaigns, and anti-malware experts concede that...

Its Time to Leave Win9x Behind

You cant say you werent warned. This July, years after it should have happened, Microsoft will end all meaningful support for Windows 98, Windows...

Mozilla Plugs Firefox Code Execution Hole

Mozilla has released a new version of the Firefox Web browser with what is described as "significant security and stability improvements." Details on the security...

Gumming Up Your USB Drive: How and Why

What happens when the data on your lost USB drive could get someone killed? Thats the question raised by the staggering and troubling lead...

Microsofts Security Disclosures Come Under Fire

Is Microsoft silently fixing security vulnerabilities and deliberately obfuscating details about patches in its monthly security bulletins? Matthew Murphy, a security researcher who has worked...

Zend Upgrades IP Protection for PHP Applications

PHP creator Zend Technologies on April 12 introduced upgraded software that helps protect application code written in open-source PHP from hackers and intellectual property...