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Mozilla Updates Firefox to Fix Security Gaps

The Mozilla Foundation updated the Firefox Web browser Tuesday in order to patch a series of security vulnerabilities, including widely publicized browser spoofing issue...

Coalition Offers Definition for Spyware

As Internet users become increasingly threatened with spyware and adware attempting to infect their machines, software vendors and consumers groups have been struggling to...

Major Oracle Patch Covers Enterprise Products, Database Server

Oracle has released a set of 49 patches that addresses new flaws in multiple versions of its Database Server, Application Server, Collaboration Suite, E-Business...

Microsoft Patches Flaws Haunting IE, Word Users

Microsoft Corp. on Tuesday released a fix for the underlying code execution vulnerability affecting users of its flagship Internet Explorer browser. As part of its...

Taking On the Security Vultures

In the days and weeks following the London bombings, there will be warnings that IT managers need to heed and others need to ignore,...

Powell Urges China to Address Intellectual Property Violations

ASPEN, Colo.—The authorities in China should go further in protecting intellectual property rights, former United States Secretary of State Colin Powell said in remarks...

New Credit Security Standards Prompt Soul-Searching

With headlines about the compromise of hundreds of thousands of credit card numbers at CardSystems Solutions Inc. still fresh, the industry is implementing long-awaited...

Symantec Suite Showcases Apps

During the last 18 months, Symantec Corp. has made a number of company—and thus product—acquisitions. Symantec appears to want to show off its new...

Pings & Packets from eWEEK Labs – 20

Bubbler Builds Robust Web SitesToiling to build a feature-filled and professional-looking Web site is a thing of the past with Bubbler 1.0 from Five...

New Security Tools Sniff Out WLAN Attacks

New tools and features from two manufacturers of wireless security software will help network administrators sniff out rogue wireless systems and spot attacks that...