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Sonys Rootkit DRM Raises Legal Red Flags

Sony BMG Music Entertainments XCP digital rights management technology may have gotten the company into trouble in several ways. First, XCP technology manipulates the Windows...

Sunbelt Will Buy Kerio Firewall

Sunbelt Software Inc. said on Thursday that it was buying the Kerio Personal Firewall software from Kerio Technologies Inc. Sunbelt plans to rebrand the product...

Cisco Boosts Network Security With Technology Buy

Networking equipment maker Cisco Systems Inc. said on Wednesday that it has agreed to purchase the Intellishield Alert Manager technology from Cybertrust Inc., security...

Windows OneCare Security Goes Live

Microsoft Corp.s Windows OneCare PC security bundle is now available to the general public. The consumer-facing tool, which features virus scanning, firewall protection, data backup...

Podcast Hijacked, Held for Ransom

In an assault reminiscent of the early days of the Internet, Podcaster Erik Marcus recently found that his RSS feed had been inexplicably redirected. According...

Redmond Mulls Emergency Patch for IE Attacks

Microsoft Corp. is working on a plan to release an out-of-cycle patch to cover a gaping hole in its dominant Internet Explorer browser. Sources say...

Security Patch Watch: Sun Java, Symantec, Cisco

Sun Microsystems Inc. on Wednesday released fixes for vulnerabilities discovered in the Sun Java Runtime Environment and in the Java Software Development Kit, which...

FTC Touts Anti-Spam Technologies

Internet users can be spared up to 95 percent of the spam sent their way if their ISPs use anti-spam filters, according to a...

Tax Scam Preys on Refund-Hungry Public with Real Gov Site

The U.S. Internal Revenue Service is warning taxpayers about a phishing scam that uses promises of tax refunds to steal sensitive financial information. The IRS...

Apple Plugs Critical Safari Browser Flaws

Apple Computer Inc. late Tuesday shipped a massive Mac OS X update to correct security flaws in several Internet-facing components, including multiple code execution...