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Ballmer Beats Drum for IT Workers

ORLANDO, Fla.—There has never been a more exciting time to be in information technology than right now, and the rate of innovation and impact...

FaceTime Buys Anti-Spyware Vendor

FaceTime on Tuesday will announce its acquisition of XBlock Systems LLC, maker of the X Cleaner anti-spyware software for an undisclosed sum, the company...

Experts: Storage Needs Security Too

After several years of hearing about security breaches that have rocked the corporate world, storage vendors are just beginning to realize that preventing disaster...

Triple-Barreled Trojan Attack Builds Botnets

Anti-virus researchers are sounding the alert for a massive, well-coordinated hacker attack using three different Trojans to hijack PCs and create botnets-for-hire.The three-pronged attack...

Your E-Mail Is Getting a Reputation

Its taken so long for e-mail authentication to get to this point that you might assume the whole idea had failed and been forgotten....

Next Anti-Spyware Group Pushes for Standards

A group of anti-spyware software makers and public-interest groups is forming a new coalition to define spyware, according to an executive at the Center...

Microsoft Patch Management Suite Rolls at Last

Microsoft is finally ready to ship its long-awaited enterprise security patch-management platform. The software giant is expected to announce on Monday that WSUS (Windows Server...

Sun Purchases StorageTek

Sun Microsystems Inc. is bulking up its storage portfolio to help customers brace for looming compliance, archival and data management woes by adding Storage...

Experts Warn of Growing Trojan Threat

Trojan horse programs were in the news again this week, as the Israeli newspaper Haaretz published news of a massive industrial espionage ring that...

McAfee Buys Wi-Fi Security Startup

Internet security specialist McAfee on Thursday announced a deal to acquire Wireless Security Corp., a venture-backed startup that sells Wi-Fi network protection to small...