More than a year after Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff publicly promised to bring in a top cybersecurity specialist, he finally hired one.
Chertoff said on Monday that Gregory Garcia, who has been working at a Washington-area trade association, would become the department’s …
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Mandriva has released Corporate Server 4.0, a version of Linux aimed at businesses.
The release is part of Mandriva’s ongoing push beyond its roots as a provider of Linux for end-users to challenge Red Hat and Novell in the market for Linux for enterprise servers.
Corporate Server …
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Sony and digital music database provider Gracenote said on Monday customers should update software to prevent hackers from breaking into their personal computers.
Sony and Gracenote made the comment in response to a software flaw that affects a Microsoft technology called ActiveX. The …
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Some new SanDisk media players will come preloaded with music and software from RealNetworks, the companies said Monday.
The Sansa e200 series media devices, available this fall, will come loaded with 32 hours of mainstream popular music from RealNetworks’ Rhapsody. Subscribers to the …
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BAGHDAD, Iraq (CNN) — Just hours after a suicide bomber killed 20 people in northern Iraq, U.N. chief Kofi Annan said Monday that the nation is in “grave danger” of falling into civil war.
At least 17 people were wounded in Monday’s attack, when a bomber detonated …
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Commentary–Hewlett-Packard’s phone records scandal might be enough to spur Congress into approving federal legislation banning the practice that’s been stuck in committee for most of the year.
The problem, though, is that the proposals …
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Google has acknowledged the presence of a phishing hole on its Public Service Search application and has blocked access to the service until the problem is fixed.
The problem went public when blogger Eric Farraro posted details on Thursday on his software development blog. Farraro said …
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Someday, installing a thermostat or remote volume knob for a home audio system might be as little effort as putting up a new air freshener.
Germany’s EnOcean has come up with a series of sensors and switches that can extract energy from the environment and then transmit information via …
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LAFAYETTE, Louisiana (AP) — Willie Nelson and four others were issued misdemeanor citations for possession of narcotic mushrooms and marijuana after a traffic stop Monday morning on a Louisiana highway, state police said.
The citations were issued after a commercial vehicle inspection …
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LONDON–Bob Gleichauf, the chief technology officer in Cisco Systems’ security technology group, has raised concerns that integrating Vista into a complex IT infrastructure could present problems.
“Parts of Vista scare me,” Gleichauf said at the Gartner Security Summit here on Monday. …
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