Ryan Naraine

VoIP services provider Net2Phone on Monday announced a two-pronged SIP telephony strategy that includes the rollout of a private label service for broadband providers. The New Jersey-based Net2Phone plans to add VoiceLine to its suite of telephony products to offer high-speed Internet providers a range of hosted telephony services that can be resold to home […]

Worried that the full release of its Windows XP Service Pack 2 (SP2) will break and disrupt existing applications, Microsoft has created an online training course for developers to explain the intricacies of the security-centric OS update. The launch of a training course is an unusual move for the software giant, which has changed many […]

HP has issued a security patch to plug “highly critical” holes in its HP Tru64 Unix operating system with a warning that a successful exploit could lead to system takeover. The company did not provide details of the vulnerabilities, which are caused due to unspecified errors within the certificate handling of IPsec/IKE. IPSec , widely […]

Online superstore Amazon.com is rolling out hundreds of customized RSS feeds for use by e-commerce shoppers, a move that gives a big thumbs-up to the growth of the RSS content syndication format. Amazon.com’s embrace of RSS comes on the heels of similar support from Yahoo and is seen as a big boost for consumer adoption […]

Security researchers on Thursday warned of a “high risk” buffer overflow flaw in some versions of the Adobe Acrobat Reader that put users at risk of system takeover. British security consultants NGSSoftware detected the vulnerability in the XML forms data format (“.xfdf”) and warned that a malicious attacker could cause a buffer overflow by tricking […]

America Online on Thursday announced its entry into the nascent social networking space with the launch of the invitation-only ICQ Universe. AOL announced it would build its social network on top of the existing ICQ instant messaging service, which already serves more than eight million active members and counts more than 175 million subscribers worldwide. […]

Looking to kick start the adoption of standards-based technologies for streaming media delivery, the Internet Streaming Media Alliance (ISMA) Wednesday released a content protection specification that prescribes interoperability between encoders, streaming servers and media players. The non-profit ISMA said its Encryption and Authentication Specification v.1.0 builds on the core ISMA Specification 1.0 released in 2001 […]

Security researchers are warning of potentially serious vulnerabilities in the Linux kernel that could allow malicious hackers to gain full super-user privileges. The vulnerability affects the 2.6.x branch prior to version 2.6.3 and the Linux kernel memory management code. Experts note that the latest bug is unrelated to a previous vulnerability in the same internal […]

When Yahoo flipped the switch on its spanking new algorithmic search function earlier this week, proponents of the RSS content syndication format had reason to smile. The mega portal’s search engine, which is no longer powered by Google, is returning available RSS feeds within search results and integrating those results with its ‘My Yahoo’ news […]

In a bid to target a security hurdle rampant with dial-up Internet users, Microsoft has rolled out a security update CD giveaway for users of Windows XP, Windows Me, Windows 2000, Windows 98, and Windows 98 Second Edition (SE). The Windows Security Update CD will ship with all of its “critical” patches released by the […]

Malicious code to exploit a component of the Microsoft Windows ASN.1 vulnerability is circulating, prompting security experts to issue a chilling warning: a Blaster-type virus attack is imminent. The exploit code, specifically created to target a buffer overflow flaw in Microsoft’s implementation of the Abstract Syntax Notation 1 (ASN.1) data standard could cause immediate denial-of-service […]

Twenty four hours after the illegal leak of Windows NT and Windows 2000 source code triggered new security fears for Microsoft customers, industry analysts said the incident could be a blessing in disguise for Microsoft’s attempts to speed up enterprise migration to its Windows XP operating system. According to statistics from research firm Gartner, approximately […]