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Security Researcher Spins E-Voting Notoriety into Gold

Security researcher Avi Rubin, who made a name for himself exposing weaknesses in electronic voting equipment, will soon be cracking open other companies products—for...

Developers Growing Challenge

Enterprise application developers are squarely in the cross hairs of the next generation of IT system attacks. As generic infrastructure security and user awareness...

Sasser: The Last Big Network Worm?

Debby Fry Wilson has more than a few reasons—and sleepless nights—to remember Sasser, the last major network worm to clog Windows systems around the...

Sober Virus Spams German Nationalism

A new variant of the Sober mass-mailing worm is being blamed for the deluge of German spam messages flooding inboxes this weekend, anti-virus experts...

Microsoft Tries to Leapfrog the Consumer Security Problem

Sometimes its amazing to see how Microsoft can take their time with things that others view as a crisis, and theres no better example...

ICSA Tackles WLAN Security

Cybertrust Inc.s ICSA labs, best known for testing firewalls and other security technologies, has turned its attention to wireless LANs, with security tests that...

Federation Cooperation Risks Complication

It was bad enough for retailer TigerDirect to find itself displaced in search engine rankings by Apples Mac OS X 10.4, with its own...

Microsoft Unwraps A1 Consumer Security Service

After more than two years of development, Microsofts consumer PC security bundle is (almost) ready for prime time. The software giant plans to roll out...

Fiberlink Rolls Out New Mobile Services

Fiberlink Communications Corp., a provider of secure mobile workforce solutions, is rolling out three new services that extend connectivity over high-speed cellular networks, provide...

Faulty Microsoft Update Rekindles Patch Quality Concerns

For Microsoft, delivering high-quality security patches in a timely manner has always been a lose-lose predicament.If patches for major software vulnerabilities take too long,...