Sean Michael Kerner

A security research group known as the Greyhats Security Group has announced a new Microsoft Internet Explorer flaw and has posted a proof of concept exploit to back up its claims. An individual “Greyhat” going by the name of “Paul” posted the vulnerability, which has been confirmed by other security research firms including Secunia on […]

Siebel Systems announced this morning that it has signed a definitive agreement to purchase e-billing provider edocs. When the deal closes, Siebel will acquire 180 edocs employees, intellectual property and customer relationships of some 116 companies. Natick, Mass.-based edocs’ e-billing and customer self-service software solutions helps comprise a market that Siebel was keen to enter. […]

Cisco Systems and HP extended their global partnership today, one that promises to deliver support services via a single point of contact to enterprises. “HP Network Support Combined with Cisco Services” will be a co-branded effort and builds on a deal the two companies signed in June under the Cisco Global Services Alliance program. At […]

Microsoft today issued five patches in its latest patch cycle, addressing problems with WordPad, DHCP, HyperTerminal, Windows Kernel and WINS. Security Bulletin MS04-041 concerns vulnerabilities in WordPad that could have potentially allowed a remote user to execute arbitrary code. The Table Conversion Vulnerability and the Font Conversion Vulnerability on their own, or in combination, could […]

E-mail security services vendor Postini is launching a new service today that it expects will process more than 30 million encrypted messages per day. Postini Auto-Encryption, a feature of the company’s Perimeter Manager Enterprise Edition service, is an implementation of Transport Layer Security (TLS) . Non-customers sending e-mail to Postini customers can use TLS as […]

According to a report from security researcher Dan Kaminsky, the MD5 cryptographic algorithm may be at risk. This means that files, applications and programs supposedly authenticated and verified by MD5 could potentially be compromised. In a research paper titled, “MD5 To Be Considered Harmful Some Day,” Kaminsky expanded on the theoretical work done by Chinese […]

PalmSource today announced that it was going to produce a new version of its Palm OS to run as a software layer on top of Linux. The move comes as the mobile OS vendor agreed to acquire Chinese mobile phone software company China MobileSoft Limited (CMS). Nanjing, China-headquartered CMS has been developing a Linux version […]

MySQL AB, which recently released MySQL 4.1, today announced a pair of tools that will provide a visual interface to MySQL database data. MySQL Query Browser is a GUI toolset that simplifies database usage. Users can visually select, query, create, modify and delete database fields and tables. The integrated script editor provides a visual interface […]

IMlogic has joined with leaders in the instant messaging and security community to create a new IM Threat Center. The center claims to be the first broad-based initiative to help IM users protect themselves against malware threats. Security firms McAfee and Sybari, as well as IM network providers AOL, Microsoft and Yahoo have joined IMlogic […]

AT&T today announced that it won a contract from the U.S. Treasury Department to build and deploy the largest civilian agency network. The deal has a base of three years with the option for up to seven one-year extensions that could bring the total value of the contract to $1 billion. The Treasury Communications Enterprise […]

The company that has been synonymous with the term “PC” since it was first created is getting out of the PC business. According to a report in the New York Times, IBM is in talks with China’s largest maker of personal computers which currently operates under the name Lenovo. The company, which trades on the […]

Microsoft has fired another salvo in its ongoing spam battle, this time against porn peddlers who don’t keep their smut inside the digital equivalent of a “Brown Paper Wrapper.” The software giant said it filed seven lawsuits against alleged violators of the federal CAN-SPAM law that violated various provisions of the act, including the new […]