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Microsofts Blue Hat Shows Its Serious About Security

For critics of Microsoft Corp.s software, 2003 was a very good year. The appearance of the Slammer and Blaster worms was evidence—if any were...

SOAs Gather Steam with Proposed Specs

With the adoption of SOAs moving beyond pilot stages, underlying Web services standards are also maturing. The e-business standards consortium Organization for the Advancement of...

Experts Fear Weak National Data Theft Law

Federal lawmakers are eager to take action against the growing problem of data theft, but some security and privacy experts fear that the zeal...

Bug Hunting, Step by Step

Microsoft Corp. is spending time and money—lots of it—courting people such as Tom Ferris, an independent security researcher who runs the Web site Security-Protocols.com....

Microsoft Trustworthy Computing Timeline

December 2000Formation of the Security Services Partner Program (searchable Web-based database where customers can locate immediate help in dealing with security issues in their...

Hats Off to Microsoft Security Efforts

Attending the RSA security conference five years ago in San Jose, Calif., I sat in the audience while a member of the Microsoft "security"...

Sana SafeConnect Sniffs Out Spyware

Sana Security Inc. will release a desktop product next month that uses the companys behavioral malicious-code detection technology to find and remove spyware, keyloggers...

LANDesk Tightens Rules for Access

LANDesk Software Inc.s LANDesk Security Suite 8.6 is a much more significant release than the version number implies. IT managers who are looking for...

Researcher: Oracle Passwords Crack in Mere Minutes

Attackers can easily crack even strong Oracle database passwords and gain access to critical enterprise data because of weak password protection mechanisms, researchers have...

Credit Unions Network Goes Under the Scope

Its never fun being the last one to know ... anything. But when what you dont know can literally shut down your business while...