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Some Perspective 5 Years After Y2K

Jan. 1 was the five-year anniversary of the Y2K "event." It seems so long ago and so supplanted by more recent events as to...

2004: Year of the Cyber-Crime Pandemic

Remember scoffing at people who didnt know any better than to click on e-mail attachments from unknown senders, thus exposing their systems to computer...

Symantec Patches High Risk Flaws

Network security vendor Symantec Corp. has rolled out fixes for three high-risk security holes in its Nexland Firewall appliances. The flaws could put users at...

Microsoft: Passport Contracts to be Phased Out

Two days after eBays decision to drop support for two key .NET applications, Microsoft continues to stand behind its single sign-on Passport service in...

New Santy Mutant Offers Help

Another mutant of the Santy worm has started squirming, this one depositing a so-called patch for vulnerable Web forums powered by the phpBB software. The...

New Netcraft Toolbar Blocks Phishing, Analyzes Web Sites

A new, free browser add-in from English Internet services firm Netcraft Ltd. fights phishing attacks and helps users investigate sites they visit. eWEEK.com tested the...

Microsoft: Single Sign-On Far from Dead

Microsoft on Thursday rushed to put the kibosh on talk that it was abandoning the single sign-on Passport identity management service.But even as company...

Five Years Later, Windows 2000 Looks Naïve

I remember roughly when Windows 2000 "went gold"—when Microsoft finalized the shipping code for the product. It was mid-December 1999, and the product officially...

Im Sick of Fighting Redmonds Battles

If Microsoft wanted to make me happy in 2005—which the company keeps telling me (and all its other customers) is a top priority—I have...

Source Code for Cabir Cell Phone Worm Released

Anti-virus vendors are bracing for a deluge of new and potentially dangerous mutants of the Cabir worm on smart phones running the Symbian Series...