CERN, the European nuclear research lab, has passed a milestone in building its worldwide data grid, sustaining a continuous data flow of an average of 600 megabytes per second (MB/s) for 10 days between eight facilities distributed through Europe and the U.S.
Two separate imaging-related security flaws have surfaced in AOL's Netscape browser and in the KDE desktop environment for Unix and Linux, according to security experts. Both could allow an attacker to plant malicious code on a user's system when a specially crafted image is viewed by an affected application, such as a browser, e-mail program or stand-alone viewer, researchers said.
Microsoft has confirmed that Internet Explorer 7.0, due for beta this winter, will include improved support for two key Web standards -- Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) and PNG graphics.
Microsoft has confirmed a security flaw in Windows 2000 that could allow attackers to execute malicious code via Windows Explorer and other programs.
Fujitsu has followed up Intel's launch of its first WiMax chip -- the Pro/Wireless 5116, aka Rosedale -- with an IEEE 802.16-2004 compliant chip of its own.
European enterprises are adopting open source software on the grounds of quality and flexibility, rather than merely considering it "good enough" because it is inexpensive, according to a new survey from research firm IDC.
Servers running PHP are vulnerable to a number of serious security exploits, including some which could allow an attacker to execute malicious code, as well as denial-of-service exploits, according to the PHP Group.
Firefox has been hit by no less than eight security flaws, six of which are also found in the older Mozilla suite.
The U.K.'s National Infrastructure Co-Ordination Centre (NISCC) has warned of a flaw in Internet Protocol (IP) that could allow significant attacks on a wide range of products, including routers and Internet software from Microsoft Corp., Cisco Systems Inc., IBM Corp., Juniper Networks Inc. and others.
Red Hat has announced several large European Linux installations, including a deal to implement more than 8,000 desktops for a major German insurance company.
Red Hat is warning enterprise Linux users to update their installations of XFree86 to fix a number of serious security bugs, some of which could allow attackers to take over a system. Affected operating systems include Enterprise Linux AS 3, Enterprise Linux ES 3 and Enterprise Linux WS 3, Red Hat said in an advisory.
With the number of non-Internet Explorer (IE) browsers expanding rapidly, a new spyware attack has surfaced that uses Java to infect IE even when the browser isn't being used at the time.
The Mozilla Foundation is cutting off development of its flagship Mozilla browser suite with the current 1.7.x line, but says it will back a community-supported version of the suite for those that wish to continue using it.
The rumors of WinFS' death have been greatly exaggerated, according to Tom Rizzo, Microsoft's director of product management for SQL Server, who said the next-generation file and storage system is currently being backported for Windows XP, according to a report.
The president of the Open Source Initiative (OSI) has been asked to leave his job, less than a month after taking on the post, for allegedly racist posts.