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Apple QuickTime Gets Security Makeover

Apple Computer Inc.s flagship QuickTime media player has received a security-centric makeover to plug several code execution vulnerabilities. The release of QuickTime 7.0.4 comes months...

Security Audit Flags Thousands of Military User Accounts

Up to 20 percent of the computer accounts used by the U.S. military are unauthorized or abandoned, providing a major opportunity to hackers and...

Microsoft Plugs Critical E-Mail Server Holes

Microsoft Corp. on Tuesday released two security bulletins to fix "critical" flaws in several widely deployed products, including one that presents a remote unauthenticated...

MS Extends Product Support Life Cycle

Microsoft Corp. on Tuesday announced a slight tweak to its software support life cycle to give customers an extra few weeks to get security...

Fighting Spyware Is Never-Ending Battle

Early adopters of anti-spyware products may focus primarily on a products ability to identify and clean spyware on the desktop, but eWEEK Labs recommends...

Mortgage Firm Banks on RSA Sign-On Manager

When problems with user tokens started cropping up, Hudson Advisors LLC, a commercial mortgage servicer and real estate asset manager, decided it was time...

Password Tools Lower Compliance Costs

Password management systems including single-sign-on tools such as RSA Sign-On Manager 4.5 can drastically reduce a number of IT costs, not the least of...

Betting on Risk Management

Cingular Wireless is based nowhere near Las Vegas or Atlantic City, N.J. Still, Thaddeus Arroyo, Cingulars CIO, spends a fair amount of his time...

Widener University Finds Firewall Flexibility

Widener Universitys IT department is not your typical college network services department. Not only does it serve 8,000 students distributed across three campuses in...

Breach at Security Vendor Shocks Industry

Security and law enforcement professionals are appalled that their personal information was leaked by Guidance Software, a security software and training company they say...