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Fair Market Needed in the Info Economy

The value of a thing is whatever it will bring. So goes the proverbial definition of fair market value, and fair markets are exactly...

Rerun of the Jedi

From: [email protected]: Monday, September 27, 2004 12:42 AMTo: eWEEK readersSubject: A flight of stares; CyberTrust in endless loop; Suns SCOrn; drive jiveSpence juggled several...

Shame on Those Charging for Early-Warning Systems

I have some very important information about a major security problem that could hit the Internet soon. If I were to give you this...

Network Extender Lives Up to Name

With the SSL Network Extender, Check Point rounds out its remote access arsenal, adding full network connectivity via SSL to its existing IPSec and...

Who Is Hurt By Microsofts Neglect of Older Browsers?

Browser security is a big problem. To you and me. And particularly, to Microsoft. Now, according to folks up in Redmond (and contrary to...

Healthy Competition Could Speed Anti-Spam Answers

If the members of the Internet Engineering Task Force are unable to put aside partisan squabbling and carry out their mission, perhaps we should...

Exploit Code Appears for MS Graphics Flaw

Just a week after Microsoft released a patch to plug a security flaw in the way at least 13 of its programs handle the...

Phishers Spoof FDIC Site to Collect Card Info

A phishing scam that appeared Thursday claiming to help protect consumers against debit-card fraud and identity theft has experts worried about the increasing skill...

No Time Like the Present for Next-Generation Authentication

Now that the Internet Engineering Task Forces MARID (MTA Authorization Records In DNS) standards process has collapsed—without even the hint of a consensus—its time...

Symantec Holes Open Up Firewalls to Attacks

Symantec Corp. has warned of a string of security holes in its Firewall/VPN Appliance and Gateway Security products, less than a month after its...