NetFlash: Windows worm beginning to spread

Opinion
Aug 17, 20052 mins

* Windows worm beginning to spread * Symantec to buy Sygate * Eight pass Liberty’s SAML 2.0 interoperability test * IBM donates code to make Firefox more accessible * Today on Layer 8

Are we looking at the next big worm? Or is this threat blown out of proportion because it hit a news organization or two? Check back with Network World for the latest on this developing story. Windows worm beginning to spread http://www.networkworld.com/news/2005/081705-windows-worm.html?net&story=081705-windows-worm

Are we looking at the next big worm? Or is this threat blown out of proportion because it hit a news organization or two? Check back with Network World for the latest on this developing story.

Windows worm beginning to spread

http://www.networkworld.com/news/2005/081705-windows-worm.html?net&story=081705-windows-worm

Symantec to buy Sygate

Last night Symantec announced it would buy Sygate Technologies, a company that makes policy-enforcement software.

http://www.networkworld.com/news/2005/081605-symantec.html?net&story=081605-symantec

Eight pass Liberty’s SAML 2.0 interoperability test

The Liberty Alliance, which is developing models for the sharing of identities across corporate boundaries, announced Tuesday that eight vendors have passed its first interoperability test based on an emerging identity standard.

http://www.networkworld.com/news/2005/081605-saml.html?net&story=081605-saml

IBM donates code to make Firefox more accessible

IBM is contributing software to the Mozilla Foundation’s Firefox Web browser to make it easier for disabled users to access and navigate the Internet.

http://www.networkworld.com/news/2005/081605-ibm-firefox.html?net&story=081605-ibm-firefox

Today on Layer 8, where we prefer to be known as “L. Diddy”:

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