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A Year of Security Challenges Looms Ahead

IT managers face daunting challenges next year: stopping spam, keeping systems up-to-date and tracking user identity. To surmount these obstacles, eWEEK Labs believes IT...

Putting Products to the Security Test

Effective security testing of new IT products is constrained by staff shortages, inadequate equipment and crunched time—in short, by a scarcity of resources. But...

New Worm Attacks MSN Messenger As Service Falters

Another candidate in the growing list of exploits on instant messaging clients and servers arrived in the wild. Called W32.Funner, the worm on Monday...

Is the ASP.Net Bug a Big Deal? MS Thinks So

I sat up and took notice when Microsoft released not one, but two interim fixes to an announced flaw in ASP.Net, and released them...

When It Comes to Security, Systems Show Their Ignorance

Computer security has two fundamental problems. The first is that computers dont know very much. The second problem is that people forget the first. Vulnerabilities...

Indecency All Around with Content Filtering

In the beginning, there were pictures of women on the Internet, and they were without clothing. And the industry created content-filtering software to protect...

Microsoft Probes Flaw in ASP.NET

Microsoft Corp. is investigating a reported security flaw in its ASP.NET technology that could allow intruders to access password-protected sections of a Web site...

U.S. House Passes Anti-Spyware Bill

WASHINGTON—The U.S. House of Representatives on Thursday overwhelmingly passed a bill that would make spyware illegal—and provide stiff sanctions for anyone found breaking that...

One Secure Notebook

IBM announces one of its most secure notebooks to date, with the introduction of the T Series ThinkPad T42 with an integrated fingerprint reader...

CA to Acquire Netegrity for $430 Million

In a suprising move designed to solidify its position in the lucrative identity management market, Computer Associates International Inc. on Wednesday agreed to acquire...