Security

Microsoft Japan to ship over 1 million XP SP2 CDs

Products certified with better WLAN encryption

* Wi-Fi Alliance certifies several products that comply with new security standard

Oracle releases patches, finally

* Patches from Oracle, SuSE, HP, others * Beware new Bagle variant * Symantec joins anti-phishing group, and other interesting reading

New York presents wireless security challenge for RNC

U.S. government agencies aim for software assurance

Protecting your network proactively

* A look at what Symantec calls generic exploit blocking

Fighting spam begins with education

* Educating your users to be spam aware

Two issues with the policy access protocol idea

* Readers identify two areas where a policy access protocol might have problems

802.11n to bring high speeds, power management to Wi-Fi

* IEEE to review 802.11n proposals next month

Indian train passengers to get mobile Internet access