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New Services Screen for Web Threats

Managed e-mail security services provider MessageLabs Inc. next week will launch new services to help businesses protect against Web-borne threats.The new offerings include an...

Symantec Adds BindView to Shopping Basket

Symantec on Monday announced plans to shell out $209 million in cash to gobble up BindView Development, a company that sells policy-compliance and vulnerability...

EU States Propose Massive Data Retention Plan

The European Union has unveiled plans to require all telephone and Internet traffic to be logged and stored for up to a year in...

Giving Scum a Bad Name

I really shouldnt let the Internet get to me like this. But, right now I am ready to shut down my server and go...

Direct Revenue to Ride Kazaa onto Desktops

Advertising software company Direct Revenue will bundle its product with the Kazaa peer-to-peer client, according to a statement posted on the Direct Revenue Web...

Mozilla Zaps Thunderbird Security Bugs

The Mozilla Foundation on Friday shipped a new version of its Thunderbird mail client to plug a potentially serious URL parsing security hole affecting...

Trojan Targets Unpatched Windows Flaw

Virus writers are actively exploiting a security vulnerability in the Microsoft Jet Database Engine that remains unpatched more than five months after it was...

No Solution at Hand for the Malware Naming Mess

In the heat of a malware outbreak there is usually a lot of confusion about what variant of what worm is involved? Is it...

F-Secure Security Suite Tackles Spyware, Rootkits

Finnish anti-virus specialist F-Secure has dived headfirst into the crowded anti-spyware market, rolling out a new consumer-facing security suite that promises to detect unwanted...

Firefox Still Tops IE for Browser Security

Recently, there was quite a flap about a Symantec study, which showed that—horrors!—Firefox had more security holes than Internet Explorer.But, what did Symantecs Internet...