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Media Player Flaw Speaks Volumes on Microsoft Security

Two schools of thought exist in the world today as to how software developers should address security problems. There is the "trust me" school,...

Latest Bagle Worm Attacks with Trojan Horse

Anti-virus vendors are raising the alarm over another batch of Bagle worm mutants crawling through e-mail networks. The latest variants have been equipped with Trojan...

Windows Media Player Update Fails Spyware Infection Test

Nearly two months after promising to update its media player software to block the threat of malware infection, Microsoft Corp. on Tuesday admitted that...

Qurb Dumps Junk Mail

Enough spam makes it through the corporate e-mail filter that I still use a desktop junk-mail blocker on my PC. Lately, Ive been using...

Mind Security Manners

Looking back at my childhood, I have to say that my parents did a pretty good job raising me. Of course, I benefited by...

Microsoft Security Leaves Some Users Behind

During his keynote address at the RSA security conference, Bill Gates announced that Microsoft will release a beta version of Internet Explorer 7.0 for...

CA Stakes Another Mainframe Security Claim

CA on Tuesday will announce a new security framework for the mainframe that is designed to tie together the various aspects of identity, authentication...

Opera Battles Spoofing in Latest Beta Release

Responding to the rise of a spoofing flaw in Web browsers, Opera Software ASA has released a second beta release of its next browser...

Lawmakers Target Consumer-Data Privacy

In the wake of recent high-profile thefts of sensitive personal information from what were considered protected databases, legislators are preparing to turn up the...

Mozilla Battens the Hatches Against IE 7.0

If evidence were needed that the new browser war will be won or lost on the security message, along comes the Mozilla Foundation with...