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Viruses and spam -- and the techniques used to create, disguise and distribute both -- are converging into a single threat in which the two computer disruptions depend on one another in a sort of symbiotic manner, according to security experts. Security firm MessageLabs highlighted the convergence i...
Symantec has announced the latest line of the company's consumer Internet security products. According to the company, the new software features enhanced levels of protection designed to address the newest and most rampant online threats. Led by Symantec's integrated-security and privacy-protection ...
Troubled Roxio, owner of the equally troubled Napster 2, is deceased. Or, rather, it's dropping the Roxio part and is taking a second shot at using the Napster name to revive its failing fortunes. The firm has been tottering along for months, issuing statements based more on hope than reality and cl...
Some people are anxious to download and install the Service Pack 2 (SP2) update to the Microsoft XP operating system, but just as many others seem wary of the 80-MB security-focused package and foresee possible problems with it. For its part, after repeatedly warning of the potential for application...
The desire to learn won't be the only thing returning with students to their universities this fall College IT departments can expect a wave of viruses, worms and other computer nasties to accompany their charges as they connect their computers to their college's networks. When many students return ...
A consortium of companies collaborating under the moniker "WWiSE" today announced their intended submission of a complete joint proposal to the IEEE 802.11 Task Group N (TGn), which is chartered with developing a next-generation WiFi standard capable of sustaining data throughput in excess of 100 Mb...
The Voice over IP landscape has changed considerably in the last few years. The easy availability of broadband access to the Internet, coupled with Herculean leaps in technology, makes VoIP service a viable alternative to traditional telephone and PBX offerings. Today's VoIP services offer a variety...
Gateway expanded its new retail-channel strategy Monday, saying its desktop computers would soon appear on the shelves at CompUSA stores.
One of the biggest questions a person will deal with in his or her life, regardless of the career path, is ethics. We make trade-offs when we "borrow" a stapler from work, take a sick day to go fishing or play golf, and take credit for something that was done by someone else. In the wake of the Enro...
Reports streaked across the technology wires yesterday as news surfaced that Jon Lech Johansen, a Norwegian programmer, had circumvented the encryption scheme used in Apple's AirPort Express, the latest hack at an Apple DRM. The device, a mobile wireless unit that serves as an 802.11g gateway to the...
Spyware is so prevalent that it is becoming nearly impossible to find computers that do not contain at least some intrusive code lurking on the hard drive or buried deep within the Windows Registry. Spyware is any technology that aids in gathering information about a person or organization without t...
Hewlett-Packard announced the firing of three top executives after reporting a dismal quarter and acknowledging that the company's failure to execute on its own internal computing initiatives left it vulnerable to competitors. HP, which released earnings a week before they were expected, fell far sh...
In an unusual image, the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has captured a rare view of the celestial equivalent of a geode -- a gas cavity carved by the stellar wind and intense ultraviolet radiation from a young hot star. Real geodes are handball-sized, hollow rocks that start out as bubbles in volca...
It might seem hard to believe, but there was a time when Microsoft's Bill Gates was begging Apple's Steve Jobs to license the Mac operating system to PC vendors. Apple turned down the offer, and was later crushed by Gate's plan B: Windows. That was in 1985, and thanks to Job's mistake, Gates doesn't...
A Minnesota teenager accused of downloading the Blaster computer worm code, modifying it and releasing the damaging and debilitating variant on the Internet last year pleaded guilty in U.S. District Court this week to infecting computers. If convicted, Parson faces about three years and several hund...
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