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Wanted: Windows Hackers
News Microsoft rented the Pure Nightclub in Caesars Palace on Thursday to treat the security community to a party with techno music and free cocktails. By hosting such parties and the Blue Hat event, Microsoft may be seeking to influence the security...
[August 2, 2005, 9:55]
University suffers massive ID data theft
News Joy Hughes, the school's vice-president for information technology, said in an internal email sent over the weekend and seen by ZDNet UK sister site CNET News.com that "the server contained the names, photos, Social Security numbers and [campus ID...
[January 11, 2005, 7:40]
Mozilla gives bug hunter $2,500
News We developed the bug bounty programme to encourage and award community members who identify unknown bugs in the software," said Chris Hofmann, director of engineering for the Mozilla Foundation. Microsoft, which charges for its products and...
[March 31, 2005, 13:05]
Tiemann steers course for open source
News The community that has had experience in making technology ubiquitous through open models is the community that's going to find and deliver security solutions that warrant responsible spending by IT organisations.
[December 5, 2002, 7:22]
Is hacking healthy?
News If you look in the hacking community, however, you are unlikely to find anyone matching that description. The hacking community is just like society at large," he says. Indeed, hacking does not necessarily have anything to do with computer security...
[April 5, 2000, 13:42]
Mobile Banking Gets a New Security Guard
Blog One of the reasons MyMobiSafe™ has attracted so much interest from the banking community is that increasing cell phone security is the first step towards allowing customers to have the confidence to try mobile banking services.
[May 31, 2007, 18:33]
Nokia and Moto Open to Anything?
Blog At MyMobiSafe.com, our commitment is to mobile security, which means taking an active role in sharing information with the mobile community. Take it from me, a guy who has an intimate knowledge of the darker side of the mobile community, you are in...
[October 26, 2007, 17:46]
Red Hat disputes CERT vulnerability figures
News The report has attracted criticism from the open source community. The US-CERT study has also caused online debate within the open-source community. Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVE), an organisation that maintains a common vulnerability...
[January 6, 2006, 13:45]
Theft of game code fuels hacking fears
News Gabe Newell, the company's founder and managing director, described the incident in a post to Half Life 2 community site, HalfLife2.net, in response to rumors about the code being leaked. In his post to the Half Life 2 community, Newell asked for...
[October 7, 2003, 12:00]
IM gets ready for business
News Companies "want security, they want archiving, they want control over who's in and out of community, and they want the ability to set rules of community," asserts Gary Reifman, product manager at Communicator, a little-known IM provider being...
[June 28, 2002, 14:10]
MyMobiSafe.com Suggests Cell Phone Problems Could Be Viral
Blog As a catch-22 if the manufacturer touts the “security” of their handset it only sets the agenda for the hacker community. As all of our subscribers are already aware, there is a dark side of the mobile community.
[November 9, 2007, 19:09]
Hacker 'saint' gets sentenced
News A teenage Welsh hacker at the centre of a multi-million pound FBI fraud investigation has been sentenced to three years of community rehabilitation with psychiatric care for what the defence called an obsessive medical condition.
[July 6, 2001, 12:32]
Battle continues over true cost of Linux
News The biggest security threat facing the Linux environment is complacency - the community has focused too much attention on being more secure than Windows," said DiDio. There is a fractured community around Linux," said DiDio.
[April 7, 2005, 13:00]
Geeks push for second-level domain
News Geek.nz defines a distinct community of interest, just as other second-level domains do," said one of the proponents, Andy Linton. However, the community that would be served by geek.nz is technical, and driven by the development of technology.
[December 10, 2002, 8:23]
Oracle: 'Tonka toy' of the database market?
News One vulnerability was discovered and exposed on a security community site, Security Focus -- which hosts the Bugtraq mailing list -- in September 2001. The attempts on the software so far have not only come from malicious quarters, but also from...
[December 13, 2001, 11:43]
Microsoft opens Windows for UK
News Microsoft has criticised the open-source movement, a community of developers behind the Linux operating system and several other projects that compete with Microsoft software. But one advantage the open-source community has over the Redmond...
[February 3, 2003, 7:42]
OpenOffice patches three security holes
News We have a security team that takes care of vulnerabilities 24 hours a day, and the open source community too. With the open community, we have so many users who report any problem discovered, and our developers react very quickly.
[July 4, 2006, 13:35]
Cisco takes NAC software open source
News Cisco is ceasing development of its network access control client software, called Cisco Trust Agent, and will submit the code to the open-source community. The Trusted Computing Group said that open-sourcing CTA was of little use to the open...
[February 12, 2007, 16:08]
Security hole discovered in Linux handheld
News Many consider that an advantage in a situation like this, as security flaws are found quickly and fixes and other software improvements can be added by a whole community of programmers, not just those employed by a particular company.
[July 12, 2002, 8:42]
Protect your network: Antivirus software is not enough
News Verry doesn't believe the problem is with antivirus software, however, as much as it is with the Internet community's inability to develop less vulnerable software and for the end user community's reluctance to rapidly patch vulnerabilities as...
[January 29, 2004, 14:05]
