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Open-Source Databases Spreading Like Rabbits

Open-source database adoption has shot up 20 percent in the last six months, according to new research. Evans Data Corp.s Fall 2005 Database Development Survey,...

The Ultimate Privacy Argument Against RFID

Privacy arguments tend to be emotional, often expressed in terms of "security versus privacy." A new book out about the future of RFID goes far...

Symantec Testing Database Security Appliance

Symantec Corp. has deployed a database security appliance at seven pilot customer sites and could roll the product out to wider release next year. The...

AOL Ships Netscape Security Patch

America Online Inc. late Wednesday shipped a new version of its Netscape browser to correct multiple critical code execution vulnerabilities inherited from the Firefox...

The Evil Scientists vs. Cisco

As a security story told around the electronic campfire, this one is a doozy, almost archetypal. First of all, on one side theres a group...

Patch Deployment Problems Haunt Microsoft Again

For the second time in as many weeks, the MSRC has revised one of its "critical" security bulletins after some users complained of problems...

A Bad Week for Patch QA

I have a lot of experience in the software testing business, having been technical director at PC Magazine Labs, PC Week (now eWEEK) Labs,...

Researcher: Oracle Patch Set Flawed Again

A security researcher has reported that Oracles most recent quarterly cumulative patch update, released on Tuesday, leaves some flaws exploitable. David Litchfield, a security research...

IE 6 Gets IE 7 Phishing Filter

Microsoft Corp. has quietly backported one of the security improvements slated for the new Internet Explorer 7 browser into IE 6.0, but the giveaway...

Broadband Parasites: Welcome (Kind of)

SANTA CLARA, Calif. —eDonkey, Kazaa and other peer-to-peer software is the 800-pound gorilla here at the ISPCon Fall 2005 conference, a gathering of broadband...