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RealPlayer Flaws Trigger PC Hijack Alert

Digital-media delivery company RealNetworks on Thursday rolled out patches for four high-risk vulnerabilities in its flagship RealPlayer software, warning that the flaws put millions...

Wireless Access: The Next Great Municipal Crisis

"Were from the government and were here to help you" is a very old and sad joke, but theres a lot of truth to...

There Is No Conspiracy Against BitTorrent

John, John, John. John Dvorak, what were you thinking? In his recent column, The Scheme to Discredit BitTorrent, Dvorak gets so much wrong about BitTorrent,...

What Is Your Bank Doing to Protect Your Data?

Nothing you could have done to ensure your privacy or protect your personal data would have made any difference in the hack that saw...

Veritas Patches Flaws in Enterprise Data Backup Products

Multiple security flaws in Veritas Software Inc.s Backup Exec data storage product could put users at risk of privilege escalation and denial-of-service attacks, the...

Mass TCP Port Attack Could Be Imminent, Analyst Warns

An ominous increase in sniffing activity on TCP Port 445 could signal an impending mass malicious code attack targeting a recently patched Microsoft vulnerability,...

SMBs Urged to Take Security Steps

A group of security experts on Wednesday offered their thoughts on what SMBs need to focus on when coming up with a coherent IT...

Users Overlook XPs Non-Admin Security

Microsoft is sparing no expense to spread the Least-privileged User Account security gospel ahead of next years Longhorn launch, but a little-known fact—especially among...

The Many Faces of Spyware

They have innocuous-sounding names—ShopAtHomeSelect, CoolWebSearch, Searchex, IEDriver—and are called many things: spyware, adware, scumware or the euphemistic PUPs (for "potentially unwanted programs"). But theres...

Secure Your Shredding

For years, companies have been routinely shredding physical documents to ensure that confidential and sensitive information doesnt fall into the hands of competitors. This...