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VMWare: Virtual Machine Security Flaw Very Serious

Virtual infrastructure software maker VMWare Inc. has rushed out fixes for a "very serious" security flaw that put users of its product line at...

Data Seizure Powers Survive in Patriot Act

Ending a standoff that threatened to keep the Senate in Washington for the holidays, lawmakers agreed to a six-month extension of the USA Patriot...

Rare Database Bug Causes Salesforce.com Outage

Salesforce.coms daylong outage Tuesday was caused by "an extremely rare, undocumented bug" that neither the company nor its database vendor had ever seen before,...

Microsoft Corrects Patch Day Glitch with SUS Update

Microsoft Corp. has shipped an update to Software Update Services 1.0 to correct a Patch Day glitch that caused some previously approved security updates...

RSA CEO Bets on Authentication, Anti-fraud Technology

RSA Security Inc. President and CEO Art Coviello cruises the company cafeteria on his scooter on a late December morning, looking like a kid...

Symantec Confirms AV Library Flaw, Promises Patches

Anti-virus vendor Symantec Corp. has publicly acknowledged that a high-risk buffer overflow vulnerability in its AntiVirus Library could lead to code execution attacks when...

Making Gift Cards A Little More Secure

The ease of use of a gift card is making them popular, with e-commerce sites expecting a tidal wave of gift card redemptions next...

Botnet Uses BitTorrent to Push Movie Files

A group of malicious hackers is using the BitTorrent peer-to-peer software to push copies of movies and Disney cartoons onto infected machines. A group of...

Big Issues Face FCC in 2006

Washington policymakers face several decisions in 2006 that will affect networking for years to come. The overarching challenge on Capitol Hill and at federal regulatory...

Beware of Strange iTunes/QuickTime Movies

A heap overflow vulnerability in Apple Computer Inc.s iTunes and QuickTime media players could put millions of PC and Mac users at risk of...