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The increasing prominence of freely licensed Linux has prompted many to view operating systems in general as a commodity. With Solaris 10, Sun Microsystems hopes to demonstrate that a company's choice of operating system does matter and that the level of innovation Sun has built into Solaris 10 can deliver benefits across a company's infrastructure. . . .
SAN FRANCISCO - The number of new viruses and worms aimed at Microsoft Corp.'s ubiquitous Windows operating system rose 400 percent between January and June from the same year-earlier period, leading computer security company Symantec said on Sunday. . . .
Microsoft Corp. is expanding a program to give government organizations access to some of its tightly guarded software blueprints amid growing competition from rivals who make such source code freely available. . . .
Sun Microsystems has previewed a new feature of the Solaris 10 operating system, code-named Project Janus. This new technology will allow users to run Linux binary applications unchanged on the Solaris OS, reducing the development and administration costs of operating in a heterogeneous environment without sacrificing performance, scalability or manageability. . . .
Microsoft's Internet Explorer browser continues to lose users to rivals such as Firefox and Opera, a Web analytics firm said Thursday. . . .
Cisco Systems and Microsoft are headed for a collision over network security, with customers caught in the middle.< . . .
The Guildford, UK-based company has created StreamShield Networks Ltd, a subsidiary focused on internet content security such as preventing worms, viruses, malware, spam, phishing and abusive content, and targeted at internet service providers. . . .
The two companies have each proposed competing "end to end" security architectures, marking the latest evolution in network defense--an approach concerned not only with scanning for viruses but also with policing networks to deny connections to machines that don't conform with security policies. . . .
IT administrators will be able to audit the machine name, location, software version installed and latest virus definitions update of each Macintosh on their network without relying on user action. In addition, the console is being designed to provide a view of the most recent viruses found on each Macintosh within the network along with the 10 most prevalent viruses. . . .
IBM plans to start shipping its PCs with a new chip designed to thwart hackers by safeguarding passwords and other sensitive identity information. Big Blue will be the first computer maker to use National . . .
Experts worry that this new JPEG bug can be exploited through an HTML e-mail, allowing the attacker to run any code allowed under the user's permissions. "Very serious," says one, pointing to the chance of copy-cat attacks. . . .
Via has released a free, open source utility that renders deleted Linux, Win2k, and WinCE files "virtually unrecoverable," it says. The PadLock Tru-Delete utility is available as binary or source, and is intended to show off the random number generator in newer Via processors. . . .
The Mozilla Foundation has fixed 10 security bugs in its open-source Mozilla and Mozilla Firefox browsers and Thunderbird e-mail reader, with the release of new versions of all three products this week. Some of the vulnerabilities . . .
BorderWare Technologies Inc. has joined Ingate Systems AB and others in providing an edge solution to the external threat problem in voice-over-IP PBXes. . . .
An upgraded GNOME desktop environment for Linux and Unix is due for release this Wednesday, with its authors pitching enhanced features for end-users and a commitment to make hardware "just work". . . .
As part of its monthly patching cycle, Microsoft on Tuesday rolled out a pair of security bulletins, including one rated "critical" that affects a bewildering array of the company's operating systems . . .
Dynalink is warning customers of a possible security issue with its popular RTA-230 DSL router and is taking action to remove a second management account with a recently-cracked password, after being alerted to the issue by Computerworld. . . .
Interpeak, one of the leading providers of Internet and security protocol solutions for embedded systems, today announced a new suite of products supporting Mobile IP. This suite of tools enables developers of wireless devices, routers and telecom equipment to easily provide mobile IP features for their customers using both IPNET, Interpeak's dual-mode IPv4/IPv6 TCP/IP stack, and other TCP/IP stacks. . . .
Sun Microsystems said its Solaris 10 operating system will be ready for general release by year's end, complete with a sharper set of security teeth. . . .
In 2001, Oracle CEO Larry Ellison told the world his company's software was "unbreakable" and invited the hacker community to bring it on. The results? By Oracle's own admission, critical security flaws are now legion . . .
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