Jim Wagner

Banks need to immediately inform customers of security breaches, according to new guidance handed down by federal banking authorities this week. The “Interagency Guidance on Response Programs for Unauthorized Access to Customer Information and Customer Notice” calls for all U.S. banks to have a response procedure in place in the event a hacker accesses private […]

The European Union (EU) can now make a name for itself on the Internet, following this week’s approval to include .eu as a country code top-level domain (ccTLD). Directors at the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) approved the new name space at a meeting Monday. Officials at EURid, who will take over […]

Apple lawyers settled with one of 28 individuals it sued for disseminating source code of an upcoming version of the Mac operating system, code-named Tiger, officials said Thursday. Doug Steigerwald, a Raleigh, N.C., resident, settled with the Cupertino, Calif., company three months after getting served a lawsuit alleging copyright infringement, breach of contract, and trade […]

UPDATED: Yahoo and Sina are again the subject of merger speculation after executives from the U.S.-based Web portal visited the Chinese mainland this week. Daniel Rosensweig, Yahoo COO, and Jeff Weiner, Yahoo senior vice president for search and marketplace, vowed to enlarge the company’s Chinese investments and introduce new products, according to the People’s Daily […]

Firefox officials released a security update to its popular Firefox Web browser, version 1.0.2, Wednesday. The update fixes three known vulnerabilities in the browser, two critical and one low-threat flaw, before they could be exploited by hackers, said Chris Hofmann, the Mozilla Foundation’s director of engineering. Developers at the organization spent the past week integrating […]

UPDATED: IBM is taking the matter of fighting spam into its own hands. Officials started marketing an e-mail authentication technology currently underway at its alphaWorks developer site, called the Fair use of Unsolicited Commercial E-mail (FairUCE). Launched on the site in November 2004, FairUCE checks incoming e-mails to ensure they are indeed coming from the […]

The Open Source Development Labs’ (OSDL) presence in the Asia-Pacific region expanded with the inclusion of its first Korean organization, officials said Monday. The Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute (ETRI), a government-funded, non-profit research organization centered on supporting information and communications firms in South Korea, will join OSDL’s Carrier Grade and Data Center Linux working […]

UPDATED: IBM and Compuware settled their three-year legal battle over source code with a $400 million settlement, officials announced Tuesday. Compuware filed a lawsuit in March 2002, claiming Big Blue had stolen the source code to its mainframe software applications, File-AID and Abend-AID, and used it to create IBM’s own brand of mainframe software, File […]

Facing increased pressure from the European Union (EU), Microsoft announced the expansion of its Shared Source Initiative (SSI) in seven countries Monday. Redmond added Slovenia, Slovakia, Malta, Lithuania, Latvia, Cyprus and Estonia to the list of existing EU countries participating in the program. Eligible participants in seven EU countries will gain access to the code […]

E-mail security vendor Postini announced the immediate availability of a small- to medium-sized (SMB) version of its enterprise-sized hosted offering Monday. The Postini Perimeter Manager Small Business Edition (SBE) is a pared down version of its corporate offering, which routes e-mails through its data centers before sending them along to the business, cutting down on […]

Officials from beleaguered Unix software developer SCO Group met with NASDAQ officials Thursday over the fate of its publicly trade stock. The Lindon, Utah, company was warned by officials at the stock exchange in February that it faced delisting for its failure to file its annual report, Form 10-K, with the Securities & Exchange Commission […]

Boston College security technicians purged the Social Security numbers of its alumni after the school discovered a hacker broke into one of its on-campus systems, officials said Friday. Jack Dunn, a Boston College spokesman, told internetnews.com that the breach involved a computer tied to the college’s fundraising phone bank. “We’re fortunate because none of the […]