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A Brand New Internet?

The Internet began as an experiment: Did it succeed? Obviously, in many ways it did, but it also failed in important ways. So what...

Feds Wont Let Go of Internet DNS

Citing national security and business concerns, officials of the U.S. Department of Commerce Thursday said the federal agency will retain control of the Internets...

Micromuse to Acquire GuardedNet for $16M

Micromuse of San Francisco said on Friday that it is buying GuardedNet Inc. of Atlanta, Ga., for $16.2 million.The acquisition will add GuardedNets security...

U.S. CERT Warns of Attacks on Veritas Flaw

The U.S. governments computer watchdog group issued a warning Thursday about possible attacks on systems running computer backup software from Veritas. The U.S. Computer Emergency...

Microsoft Confirms Code Execution Hole in IE

Microsoft late Thursday confirmed a security flaw in its dominant Internet Explorer browser could be potentially exploited by malicious hackers to take "take complete...

Justice Department Makes Arrests in Piracy Crackdown

The U.S. Department of Justice on Thursday announced arrests in a massive, international undercover operation called "Operation Site Down," which targeted underground piracy networks...

Rumored Microsoft Adware Deal Raises Red Flags

Published reports that Microsoft is in discussions to purchase high-profile adware vendor Claria for as much as $500 million have set tongues wagging in...

IBM Reports Phishing Surge

Incidents of the online identity theft scams known as phishing attacks increased by more than 200 percent in May, according to figures released by...

Microsoft Turns Off SUS Downloads

Less than a month after Microsoft Corp.s Windows Server Update Services enterprise patch-management platform was released to manufacturing, Microsoft has turned off downloads of...

Three Sentenced in eBay Fencing Scam

Two men and one woman were sentenced to prison terms Tuesday after pleading guilty to defrauding home improvement giants The Home Depot Inc. and...