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VeriSign Buys Security Firm iDefense for $40M

VeriSign Inc. said on Thursday that it has acquired security intelligence firm iDefense for $40 million in cash. iDefense specializes in developing security intelligence about...

Security Patch Deluge: A Double-Edged Sword

Patch Tuesday this month was an IT administrators worse nightmare. Microsoft Corp. patched three "critical" flaws. Oracle Corp. plugged 49 database server holes. The Mozilla...

Domain Hijacking Takes ICANN Spotlight

Web sites both big and small face the risk of having their Web addresses stolen because of flaws in the way domain names are...

Apple Patches OS X Flaws

Apple Computer Inc. has released an update for its Mac OS X 10.4 operating system that fixes two security flaws, including one that potentially...

Strive for Authentication, But Dont Count on It

Tuesdays E-Mail Authentication Summit in Times Square was a reminder that work continues in this important effort. The basic idea of it was to...

Patch Management: Stop Killing the Database to Save It

With all the recent public disclosures of data-privacy breaches, the spotlight is shining brightly on database security. Databases are clearly under direct attack from...

Its Time Microsoft Patched Its Patch System

You almost have to pity Microsoft sometimes. While it sells the most popular computer OS, it is also one of the worst designed ones....

Speakers at E-Mail Summit Push Authentication, Reputation Tools

Representatives from 37 e-mail technology companies used a one-day Summit in New York on Tuesday to exhort private sector administrators and online marketers to...

Oracle-on-Microsoft Shops Face Double Patching Delight

Patching systems is always painful, but Tuesdays scenario of two major cumulative patch sets on the same day—from Oracle and Microsoft—is downright sadistic. When will...

Open Door Networks Ships Firewall for Mac OS X

Open Door Networks this week shipped DoorStop X 1.0, a software-based firewall for Mac OS X 10.3, Mac OS X Server 10.3 and later...