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Attachment Insecurity Revealed in Outlook Express

Outlook Express 6 includes a configuration setting awkwardly titled "Do not allow attachments to be saved or opened that could potentially be a virus."...

Do-It-Yourself Home Security

Its the do-it-yourself approach to home security: Why pay a company when you can install cameras yourself? The ones reviewed here let you view...

Personal Firewall—Dont Surf Without It

A personal firewall should protect your computer against external attacks by hackers or worms and against internal betrayal by spyware or Trojan horse programs....

Security Alert: DB2 Flaws Surface

Next Generation Security Software has reported multiple vulnerabilities in IBM DB2 Universal Database. Twenty vulnerabilities were reported and designated as "critical" by Next Generation Security...

RealNetworks Fixes Security Holes

RealNetworks Inc. has patched security vulnerabilities in several versions of the RealPlayer client software.According to an advisory on the companys Web site, the patches...

Poll: Spam Is a Top Distraction

Costly waste of user time is the worst effect of workplace spam, according to an interactive poll of several hundred participants in a Ziff...

Is Network Outage Information a Terror Threat?

Before negotiating telecommunications contracts for clients out West, Bill Harris made a habit of reviewing network outage reports filed with the Federal Communications Commission,...

Verizons Spring Break-In

According to published carrier reports filed with the Federal Communications Commission, a variety of things, from natural disasters to careless maintenance, can result in...

Beefy Options for Thin Clients

Wyse Technology Inc., Neoware Systems Inc. and Maxspeed Corp. are rolling out hardware and upgraded management software that the companies say will make it...

Cyber-Security Imperative

Its a lamentable state of affairs, but it will probably take years more of identity theft on a massive scale and security breaches of...