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Microsoft announced its participation at the first Digital Identity World 2002 Conference Thursday in no small fashion, pledging to open up some of the code for its controversial Passport digital identity service.The announcement was made by the Redmond, Wash. concern’s Craig Mundie, senior vice president and chief technical officer, during a keynote address for the […]

Lindows.com last week filed for a summary judgment in defense of the patent infringement suit filed by Microsoft nearly a year ago over Lindows.com’s use of the term “lindows” in its products and branding. The San Diego computing startup is hoping the U.S. District Court in Washington finds in its favor, claiming that Microsoft has […]

Dell Monday unveiled a storage device and two new desktops from its Dimension family, addressing both the enterprise and consumers, respectively. On the corporate side of the fence, Austin, Texas’ Dell rolled out a new network storage system geared for business continuance, the goal of which is to help technology systems to maintain operations through […]

In what it sees as clamping the competitive vise on rivals Dell and HP, Armonk, N.Y.’s IBM said Thursday it is working with Intel and Microsoft to create more powerful Intel Xeon processor MP- and Windows-based software for the enterprise. An IBM spokesperson said the three firms are working with systems integrators and software vendors […]

NEW YORK – Staging a full assault on competitors, Network Appliance Tuesday unleashed the company’s new flagship offering, which serves as the concern’s first storage appliance to support Fibre Channel SAN environments. NTAP touted the FAS900 series as the industry’s first unified storage engine capable of handling networked storage in SAN and/or NAS mode. Hawking […]

Microsoft Thursday issued critical patches for flaws in most of its Windows platforms that can leave the systems susceptible to identity spoofing. The vulnerability could enable an attacker who had a valid end-entity certificate to issue a bogus certificate that would pass validation. This could allow a variety of identity spoofing attacks, the worst of […]

While Microsoft’s and Oracle’s pricing plans have attracted much controversy and heated debate around the software industry, some competitors are seizing the opportunity to extend an olive branch to the customer community. Provo, Utah’s Novell took such steps Tuesday when it unleashed a new pricing plan that is supposed to help businesses better deliver Web […]

An exploit in the world’s most popular search engine’s toolbar could leave users vulnerable to malicious users. Including and prior to Google’s version 1.1.58 of its toolbar, users are at risk from hackers who can execute the following tasks: control all visual configuration options; hijack the toolbar and reroute searches; execute arbitrary commands; read local […]

Security experts have detected four serious vulnerabilities in OpenSSL, an open source implementation of the Secure Sockets Layer (SSL v2/v3) and its successor, Transport Layer Security (TLS v1), according to the Carnegie Mellon Software Engineering Institute (CERT). The flaws, commonly known as buffer overflows, could be used by a malicious perpetrator to execute code on […]

Researchers in IBM’s Hawthorne, N.Y. facility Monday said they have worked up new software that monitors 802.11 wireless networks and reports any security problems as soon as they are detected. A true “sniffer” product that ferrets out intrusions, the Distributed Wireless Security Auditor (DWSA) runs on desktop and laptop computers, minding wireless network security. If […]