Jim Wagner

Anti-spam vendor Postini has looked at spam from both sides now. The Spamhaus Project, a popular U.K.-based organization that maintains a database of spamming activity, placed two of the San Carlos, Calif., company’s IP addresses on its Spamhaus Block List (SBL) last week after receiving numerous complaints of unsolicited e-mail from the company. While the […]

Microsoft has joined other security vendors in pursuit of the rootkit component to Sony’s now-infamous anti-piracy measure. Jason Garms, Microsoft anti-malware technology team architect and product manager, wrote in a blog entry over the weekend that its December update to the Malicious Software Removal Tool will detect and remove Sony’s rootkit . Beta testers for […]

Identity theft in the banking industry has become a growing concern in recent times, as a result of a number of high-profile breaches and consumer data theft. A survey by consulting and systems integrator giant Unisys found that nearly 40 percent of Americans are somewhat willing to pay additional fees to keep their accounts secure […]

UPDATED: Security experts are throwing up warning flags about VoIP on the corporate network and pointing to one provider in particular. Research from VeriSign and Info-Tech Research Group said security risks surrounding increasingly-popular Internet phone software could put networks at risk and should be addressed. Ross Armstrong, senior research analyst at Info-Tech, is also urging […]

The board of directors at the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) wants to hold a special meeting with their governmental members to discuss ways to head off the threat of United Nations (U.N.) intervention. Vint Cerf, ICANN board chairman stated the board would like to hold a special meeting to discuss the […]

Like a set of proud parents on its baby’s first birthday, the Mozilla Foundation is grinning from ear to ear today. Its precocious Web browser, Firefox 1.0, is one year old. In terms of popularity, media coverage and impact, the Web browser enjoys a position any startup technology would envy. In roughly a year’s time, […]

UPDATED: Sun Microsystems announced the availability of its updated enterprise-grade IDE , Java Studio Enterprise 8 (JSE 8), with an offer it hopes you can’t refuse. The Santa Clara, Calif., Java steward is giving the software away to members of its Sun Developer Network (SDN) in an effort to build up its community and get […]

Borland’s board of directors has named a former Oracle executive to lead its operations, company officials announced Tuesday. Tod Nielsen, former Oracle senior vice president of marketing and global sales support, takes over president and CEO duties from interim chief Scott Arnold. Arnold stepped in after Dale Fuller resigned as president and CEO in July […]

As details of Sony’s secretive digital rights management protections come to light, its actions are prompting not-so-secret opposition from privacy advocates. The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) is currently investigating Sony’s anti-piracy tactics in order to determine whether the organization will file a class-action lawsuit in the coming weeks against the music giant, said Jason Schultz, […]

Computer Associates is divesting its open source enterprise database, Ingres, to venture buyout specialists Garnett & Helfrich Capital, officials announced Monday. Ingres Corp. will take over management of the open source project and sell services and support on top of the software, a la JBoss. While CA retains its ties to the software with a […]

Microsoft may be the lead cheerleader for its new IDE for Visual Studio 2005, but it wants to enlist more developers in the cause. Steve Ballmer, Microsoft CEO, and other Redmond executives are set to ramp up that rally for Visual Studio 2005, SQL Server 2005 and BizTalk 2006 at a launch event at today […]

Microsoft is moving up the time line for its release of Dynamics CRM 3.0 for English-speaking users to early December, officials said Thursday. The launch of the International English version of the CRM software means that, for some folks anyways, they won’t have to wait until sometime in the first quarter of 2006 to get […]