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Ask Jeeves Disputes Anti-Spyware Flaggings

A dispute has erupted between the Ask Jeeves search engine and anti-spyware software companies that raises questions about the standards used to flag potentially...

Juniper Adds SSL VPN Appliance for Service Providers

Interest is growing in provider-based SSL VPN services. But until now, thats been an expensive proposition for service providers to fulfill. Juniper Networks Inc. announced...

Security Watch: Picking on PHP

This has been a fairly slow week for security issues, probably because all the l33t hax0rs took off to go to the beach for...

Intel Sets Sights on Security

Intel Corp. is moving on multiple fronts to help keep businesses one step ahead of worms and viruses. The chipmakers research arm has stepped up...

Microsoft Cancels September Patch Day Update

There wont be a Patch Day this month after all. Microsoft Corp. late Friday cancelled plans to roll out a solitary bulletin with patches for...

Cyber-Looters Capitalize on Katrina

The distressing images of looters carrying off electronics, food and whatever other goods they could find in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina have become...

Researcher Flags Firefox Code Execution Flaw

Officials at the Mozilla Foundation on Friday acknowledged that a potentially dangerous code execution hole exists in fully patched versions of its flagship Firefox...

Selective Disclosure Raises Questions

A couple weeks ago we had a slightly odd report of a vulnerability in Internet Explorer.It was perfectly plausible, and Microsoft as much as...

Symantec Plugs DoS Flaws in Brightmail

Internet security software vendor Symantec Corp. has shipped a patch for a pair of security flaws affecting users of its enterprise-facing Brightmail AntiSpam product. According...

Ciscos Fix: Too Many Holes in IOS

Cisco has had a summer just chock-full of security problems in many of its products. Keeping up the tradition of the "annus horribilis," the company...