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Dungeons And Something Else, Part Two.  |
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CNET News.com - Front Door
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E-mail scam taps antiterrorist push, says FDIC. The latest "phishing" scam uses a homeland security hook to try and reel in personal and financial information from victims, according to the U.S. bank insurance body. |
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Yahoo! News - Technology
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Ariba Plans to Buy FreeMarkets for $493M (AP). AP - Business software maker Ariba Inc. will buy rival FreeMarkets Inc. in a cash-and-stock deal initially valued at $493 million, uniting a pair of formerly high-flying companies battling to survive the dot-com crash. |
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Bank Agency Warns of Fraudulent E-Mail (Reuters). Reuters - U.S. officials said on Friday they
were investigating the source of e-mail purporting to come from
the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. that warns consumers their
bank deposit insurance will be suspended. |
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'Feedback' Forgers Suspended by EBay (washingtonpost.com). washingtonpost.com - Online auction giant eBay said today it has suspended several sellers for uploading special programs to the eBay Web site that allowed them to remove negative "feedback" left by previous customers. |
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Congressional Committee Approves Database Bill |
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Fort N.O.C.'s Security in Obscurity |
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Politicans For Sale... On Amazon |
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InfoWorld: Top News
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Microsoft wants RealNetworks suit moved. Microsoft Corp. has asked a judge to move an antitrust suit filed against it by rival RealNetworks Inc. to Washington state from California, the company said Thursday. |
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Vendors, carriers eye WiMax wireless broadband. Manufacturers and service providers looked at the emerging WiMax wireless technology this week and saw a possible rival to wired broadband services -- at the end of what some see as a long standardization process. |
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NEC to launch RFID business this year. NEC Corp. is planning to enter the radio frequency identification (RFID) business this year and is currently in the final stages of developing its own RFID chip, it said Friday. |
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Nokia plans new software developer program. After attracting more than a million software developers to create applications for mobile phones, Nokia Corp. plans a new program to offer development tools and technical information to those programmers who are demanding more -- and are willing to pay. |
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HP sees EMEA channel as its edge. If Hewlett-Packard Co.'s (HP's) channel partners had not made up for lingering post-merger kinks, it could have lost momentum in Europe during the recent revival of the IT market, a company executive said this week. |
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Former CA executive pleads guilty to SEC charges. A former Computer Associates International Inc. (CA) financial executive pleaded guilty Thursday to charges of accounting fraud, acknowledging what investigators called a "widespread practice" at CA of prematurely booking revenue from software contracts before they closed. ADVERTISEMENT:  Get strong 128-bit SSL security for your online business - To secure your servers with 128-bit SSL encryption, download a copy of the free VeriSign Guide, "Securing Your Web site for Business." You'll learn everything you need to know about encrypting e-commerce transactions, securing corporate intranets, and authenticating your Web site.
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NAI's McAfee the latest to add anti-spyware. Network Associates Inc. (NAI) will become the latest security software maker to address the growing problem of stealth surveillance software known as spyware when it announces a new consumer product for locating and removing the applications on Monday. |
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IBM lays out collaboration plans - Infoworld Staff. IBM's Lotus Software will kick off its 11th annual Lotusphere user conference this week reiterating its J2EE and Web services-based collaboration mantra of the past few years. |
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Microsoft tweaks protocol licensing program. In response to criticism from U.S. government antitrust regulators, Microsoft on Friday detailed additional changes to a licensing program for Windows protocols it created as part of its landmark antitrust settlement with the federal government. |
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Confluent, Compuware boosting Web services, drivers - Infoworld Staff. Confluent Software and Compuware are boosting Web services management and Windows driver development, respectively. |
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InfoWorld: Security
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Oracle chief hitched, AT&T Wireless ditched - Infoworld Staff. Pammy’s preoccupied, my boss won’t talk to me, and even Apache won’t return my calls, so I’m turning to reality TV for love
and affection. So far I’ve been rejected by The Apprentice (too old), Fear Factor (too wimpy), and Queer Eye (they said I
was indeed unfabulous but needed more hair on my back).But I understand Kato Kaelin is trying to launch a show called Houseguest.
I’d be perfect -- my condo needs a good pool guy. |
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Scott Thompson feels the world watching - Infoworld Staff. On the last day of holiday shopping in 2003, consumers were buying presents with Visa credit cards at the lightening-fast
speed of 5,119 transactions per second. But Visa USA CIO Scott Thompson doesn’t consider that a big accomplishment. Rather,
he’s most proud of a new fraud-identification system he and his staff deployed in 2003 that ranks a transaction’s potential
for being suspect in real-time. Because the system looks at possible fraud among both customers and merchants, he explains,
it has value for both the bank and the merchant. |
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Wade Schott challenges self and staff - Infoworld Staff. Under Wade Schott's leadership, General Dynamics in 2003 became the fourth company to reach the highest level of the Software
Engineering Institute's Capability Maturity Model — and it did so in less than a year, when the process can take three times
as long. |
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Return of the worms - Infoworld Staff. A couple of months ago I wrote that the appearance of worms and viruses seemed to be somehow related to those times when computer
science students had too much time on their hands. I noted that the last major worm infestation seemed to happen in August
when schools were closed. ADVERTISEMENT:  Get strong 128-bit SSL security for your online business - To secure your servers with 128-bit SSL encryption, download a copy of the free VeriSign Guide, "Securing Your Web site for Business." You'll learn everything you need to know about encrypting e-commerce transactions, securing corporate intranets, and authenticating your Web site.
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Phyllis Michaelides wants to know who they really are - Infoworld Staff. Phyllis Michaelides spent 2003 ensuring that Textron’s 44,000 employees are who they say they are. As chief technologist
of the $10 billion conglomerate, with divisions that include Bell Helicopter and Cessna, she deployed an ID management system
that encompasses both authentication and authorization. |
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Steve Orrin believes in location, location, location - Infoworld Staff. When it comes to enterprise security, Steve Orrin believes in building it in rather than tacking it on. And the CTO of Sanctum
spends much of his time evangelizing the importance of embedding security in applications by participating in two OASIS working
groups established in 2003. The WAS-XML working group focuses on Web application security; he’s also working on formulating
the Application Vulnerability Description Language. |
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Kimberly N. Ellison-Taylor has no room for error - Infoworld Staff. Prince George’s County, the second largest county in Maryland, does not have the budget that Washington, D.C. has, but CTO
Kimberly N. Ellison-Taylor has similar security concerns. “Our airports, waterways, and bridges are targets that could be
used to get to the Capitol,” she notes, adding that her jurisdiction has dealt with hurricanes and blackouts in the past year
alone. |
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Yuval Ben-Itzhak balances the here and now with future needs - Infoworld Staff. To survive the economic downturn, KaVaDo CTO and co-founder Yuval Ben-Itzhak focused on designing security software that provides
customers with an immediate payback. The Tel Aviv-based company’s Web application scanner and firewall products proactively
define acceptable behavior with respect to Web application use, rather than reactively target specific patterns and signatures
that require continuous updates. |
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SecurityFocus Vulnerabilities
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Vulnerabilities: WebTrends Reporting Center Management Interface Path Disclosure Vulnerability. WebTrends Reporting Center is used to organize and present usage information for multiple server web environments. Reporting Center is available for Microsoft Windows, Li... |
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Vulnerabilities: Anteco Visual Technologies OwnServer Directory Traversal Vulnerability. OwnServer is a web server used for remotely monitoring security cameras. This facilitates streaming of live video that is viewable via the Internet.
A vulnerability in ... |
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NewsIsFree: Security
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NAI's McAfee the latest to add anti-spyware |
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SANRAD Stands Out from the iSCSI Crowd |
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Enterprise Storage Snapshots |
Friday, January 23, 2004
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