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Analyst: With Quality This Lousy, ITs Heading for the Meatpacking Treatment

ORLANDO—"Nick Carr was wrong," said Gartner analyst Richard Hunt. "IT matters more all the time." And what happens when an industry really matters? It gets...

Oracle Issues Monster Security Update

Oracle Corp. on Tuesday released its quarterly Critical Patch Update, closing 85 security vulnerabilities with 23 patches in its databases, servers and enterprise applications. Oracle...

Blog Spammers Take Aim at Google

Just call it SplogSpot. Google Inc.s free BlogSpot service has become a happy hunting ground for spammers cashing in on the easy integration of AdSense...

Only Suckers Renew

The price of most things in the computer industry is driven down over time, from competition, economies of scale and advances in the technology....

ISS Warns of Worm-Friendly Hole in Snort IDS

Security experts from Internet Security Systems Inc. and the U.S. Computer Emergency Readiness Team are warning companies that use the popular Snort Intrusion Detection...

List of Unpatched Windows Flaws Grows

The list of unpatched security vulnerabilities in products embedded in the Microsoft Windows operating system just got longer. Researchers at eEye Digital Security have flagged...

IBM Looks to Secure More Than Data

IBMs soon-to-be unveiled GMM (Global Movement Management) supply-chain security framework will introduce a multi-engine backbone security architecture, to be known as GMSA (Global Movement...

TippingPoint Gets Anti-Phishing Features

3Com is adding new anti-phishing technology to its TippingPoint line of IPS, or intrusion prevention system, products, the company said.The new anti-phishing features are...

Tumbleweed Beefs Up Mailgate

With the launch of its new e-mail security appliance and software, Tumbleweed Communications Corp. is aiming to make it easier for IT administrators to...

Need for Anti-Phishing Vigilance Continues

Despite the recent emergence of anti-phishing legislation, IT managers and consumers would be foolish not to continue implementing their own stringent technology measures against...