Security

Microsoft’s response to the Xbox’s strange wireless signal: It could be anything

UMPCs whipped for hardware and design flaws

User-controlled electricity saved money; stress on power grid

Progress Update: Vista Updates Crater Word

Next-generation WAN firewalls: First, a history lesson

* What did the first-generation WAN firewalls do?

Controlling outbound e-mail

* Inbound e-mail is not the only security risk

What is Vernier Networks up to?

* Vernier Networks changed its name, refinanced and is cooking up new technology

Citibank antifraud move draws cashflow conspiracy chatter

Storm splinters, starts phishing, say researchers

iPhone Trojan and MBR rootkit kick off 2008

* Patches from Debian, Gentoo, Mandriva, others * First Trojan reported for the iPhone * 'Hacker safe' Web site gets hit by hacker, and other interesting reading