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Trend Micro Gobbles Up Anti-Spyware Startup

Moving to keep pace in the red-hot software market for detecting and removing spyware, anti-virus vendor Trend Micro on Tuesday announced plans to shell...

Novell Adds Security Company to Its Linux Mix

On Tuesday, Novell announced that it had acquired Immunix, a leading provider of Linux host-based application security solutions for Linux. Immunix Inc. has specialized in...

Microsoft Quashes GreyMagic Bug

Microsoft shipped its 24th security bulletin for 2005 on Tuesday with a fix for a well-known—and potentially dangerous—flaw in the Windows 2000 operating system. The...

Firefox Plug-In Protects Privacy

A new tool bar for the Mozilla Foundations fashionable Firefox open-source Web browser can protect Web surfers from hidden online threats and help them...

An RFID Passport to Trouble

Its welcome news that the State Department is now rethinking its ill-advised effort to embed RFID tags in U.S. passports, but by all indications,...

Defining Spyware: A Solution

What is spyware? Many of todays definitions are inconsistent. Meanwhile, other terms such as adware have emerged to describe software that doesnt actually spy...

IT Lobbies for Cyber-Security

The swelling sum spent by the tech industry in Washington results not only from organizations boosting expenditures in recent years but also from the...

Phishing, Malware Declining?

A trio of reports from security vendors and industry groups that monitor malicious code suggests that recent plagues such as phishing attacks and spyware...

ISS Sticks with Its Game Plan

CEO Tom Noonan has been with Internet Security Systems Inc. since the Atlanta companys humble beginnings in 1994 as a startup with one product...

SANS Issues Top 20 Flaws List

The SANS Institute last week issued the first quarterly update to its formerly annual Top 20 Internet Security Vulnerabilities list, which many organizations use...