A warning about the security flaw identified last Monday in the zlib compression/decompression library affecting Linux systems has been broadened to include Windows and any other other operating systems that use the zlib code.
A warning about the security flaw identified last Monday in the zlib compression/decompression library affecting Linux systems has been broadened to include Windows and any other other operating systems that use the zlib code.
Although two potential security vulnerabilities affecting the Linux operating system have surfaced in the past three weeks, analysts and two users say the incidents won't erode confidence in Linux as a secure and economical alternative to Windows and Unix.
Although two potential security vulnerabilities affecting the Linux operating system have surfaced in the past three weeks, analysts and two users say the incidents won't erode confidence in Linux as a secure and economical alternative to Windows and Unix.
In what is believed to be the first of its kind, a new nondestructive computer worm has been found that apparently can e-mail itself out in either English or Japanese, depending on the native language of the recipient.
As it continues to try to distinguish itself in the high-end server market, Unisys Corp. has unveiled a more powerful Wintel machine to stand against competition running Unix and other operating systems.
Bodacion Technologies thinks it has built an intrusion-proof Web server, and now it's daring the world to try to spoil its release party next week.
The co-leader of one of the oldest piracy groups on the Internet, arrested last December in a federal software piracy probe, pleaded guilty yesterday to conspiracy charges in federal court.
Security holes in the intranet of the New York Times Co. have been patched following an intrusion by a 21-year-old hacker who peered into the company's databases earlier this month using Web browsers.
Internet service giant America Online is being sued by a group of its subscribers who allege that the company shipped them merchandise they didn't order and then billed them for it.
Search engine company AltaVista Co. is refocusing on its core search business and will end its free Altavista.com e-mail account service for some 200,000 U.S. customers on March 31.
A free software-analysis tool and benchmark guidelines to help make widely-used Cisco Systems routers more secure from hacker attacks and other vulnerabilities were released today by a consortium of security groups.
Search engine company Google has released its Google Search Appliance, a device designed to make it easier for corporate customers to find information on their intranets or Web sites.
The effort to integrate speech recognition technology with Web-enabled applications for mobile phones and personal digital assistants got a boost last week with the announcement of an alliance between Microsoft and SpeechWorks.
An alliance between Microsoft and vendor SpeechWorks International to integrate speech recognition into Web-enabled applications for cell phones, personal digital assistants and other devices was unveiled yesterday.