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Exploit Unleashed for IE Hole

Microsoft has issued a pre-patch advisory with workarounds for a "highly critical" vulnerability that could put millions of Internet Explorer users at the mercy...

Stolen Fidelity Laptop Exposes HP Workers

Financial services giant Fidelity Investments confirmed that a laptop containing the personal information of almost 200,000 Hewlett-Packard employees was stolen from its property. The Boston-based...

eWEEK Labs Reviews Desktop Standards PolicyMaker Application Security 2.5

In this eWEEK Labs TestRun, eWEEK Labs Technical Director Cameron Sturdevant and eWEEK Labs Technical Analyst Andrew Garcia discuss Garcias review of Desktop Standards...

Mr. RFID Discusses RFID Security

BOSTON—I caught up with Kevin Ashton just as he was getting back into Boston following a red-eye flight. Kevin is currently the vice president of...

Lawmakers Move Ahead on Federal ID Theft Bill

Lawmakers charged with overseeing business and commerce said they plan to approve legislation the week of March 27 with the hope of pushing a...

DoS Attack Brings Down Sun Grid Demo

A text-to-speech translation application, one of the many services that uses Sun Microsystems Grid computing system, did not fare very well on its opening...

The Real RFID Security Issue

BOSTON—Are RFID systems secure? This is a good question and one that should be asked before your company jumps on the RFID bandwagon. The question...

Enterprise Security Threats Increasingly Come from Within

Enterprises searching for the answers to their security problems should increasingly take a closer look at their internal operations before blaming outside threats, according...

Apple Gets Security Lecture from Microsoft

Apple is getting a lecture on its security response process from the unlikeliest of places. In a classic flipping of the script, a Microsoft program...

Microsoft Hunts Down New IE Bug

Microsoft officials said that they are probing the details of a new vulnerability found in the companys Internet Explorer Web browser. According to widely distributed...