Latest security news.
Microsoft hits back at McAfee criticism, 10/20/06
Microsoft has hit back at criticisms from security vendor McAfee that it is dragging its feet in cooperating over Vista’s security readiness.
Microsoft, McAfee trade barbs over Vista security, 10/20/06
Microsoft on Friday defended the process for disclosing key security information about its upcoming Vista operating system after security vendors continued to complain it’s too slow and not detailed enough.
Opinion: The Year of Sleaze?, 10/21/06
What is the matter with our industry? It seems every day the sleaze quotient increases!
IBM gives analytic tools a fraud-fighting spin, 10/20/06
IBM this week detailed software and services bundles aimed at helping companies combat potential threats and fraudulent activity by people who try to mask their identities.
Editorial: Moving to thin clients across the board, 10/20/06
What do you do when two-thirds of your company’s employees work in remote locations that don’t have IT support?
Court blocks request to shut Spamhaus domain, 10/20/06
A U.S. judge has denied an order that would have suspended the domain name for The Spamhaus Project Ltd., averting a potential quagmire over how U.S. legal rulings apply across the global Internet.
Microsoft trains Colombia ex-paramilitaries . . . in IT, 10/20/06
Former paramilitary fighters in Colombia may be able to shoot a gun far better than they can fire off an e-mail, but that could soon change thanks to a new program, partly funded by Microsoft, that aims to train the ex-combatants on computers.
