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Coreflood Trojan Stole 500G of Personal Financial Data

A cache of stolen data gathered from a botnet that has been quietly sweeping up information for years contained the user names and passwords for 8,485 bank accounts.

DNS May Be Patched, but Danger Still Lurks

We dodged a bullet last month -- the discovery of a fundamental flaw in the Domain Name System, Dan Kaminsky told a standing-room only (and some sitting on the floor) crowd at the Black Hat Briefings Wednesday.

Analyst: Beware of the Google Gadgets

One fun thing about the interactive world of Web 2.0 is the online applications you can take advantage of, such as Google Gadgets.

Tuesday Patch Cycles To Include Risk Assessments

Microsoft is initiating a new security notification approach, the company announced on Tuesday at the Black Hat security conference.

Microsoft Releases SQL Server 2008 to Manufacturing, IT Pros

Microsoft has released SQL Server 2008 to manufacturing and, as an evaluation edition, to subscribers of its Microsoft Development Network and TechNet services

Black Hat Researchers Overcome Security Learning Curve

The Black Hat Briefings return to Caesars Palace this week with a new batch of hands-on security research for a crowd of 4,000 IT administrators, hackers, industry experts and government officials.

AT&T Delves into Cloud Computing

AT&T has introduced a new hosted service that offers online storage, processing power and enterprise applications.

IBM Makes Large Cloud-Computing Investment

IBM Corp. late last week touted the construction of two additional cloud computing datacenters -- an investment of $360 million -- which let it address what officials call "surging" demand for cloud computing resources.

Open Source: A 'Growing Challenge' to Microsoft

Open source software topped the list of business "risk factors" outlined in Microsoft's annual 10-K report to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission.

IBM To Team With Linux Vendors on 'Microsoft-Free' PCs

IBM and name-brand Linux operating system distributors Red Hat, Novell and Canonical/Ubuntu have disclosed their intentions to join forces with their hardware partners to create what they are calling "Microsoft-free personal computing choices."

Security Woes Up, as PHP and OSS Make the List

Software vulnerabilities are up this year, especially Web browser-based ones, according to a new report from IBM Internet Security Systems.

Embarcadero Releases SQL Optimizer

Embarcadero Technologies releases DB Optimizer, a new toolset designed to help developers optimize SQL code in databases.

Virtualization Hits the Cloud

Skytap’s Virtual Lab service lets developers subscribe to virtual machines (VMs) and provides a VM image library and a virtual lab-management app.

Geospatial Tools Mean Business

Microsoft’s Virtual Earth and SQL Spatial bring geospatial technology to the enterprise.

Borland Management Solutions Targets App Delivery

Borland expands its ALM suite with Borland Management Solutions, aimed at improving software-delivery processes.

Virtualization Showdown at Black Hat

Next week at the Black Hat conference in Las Vegas, security researcher Joanna Rutkowska promises to demonstrate how a malicious attacker, working remotely, could take control of the open-source Xen virtualization software.

Apple Reacts to Spoof Threats, Issues DNS Hotfix

Apple Inc. took action on Friday to address the infamous Domain Name System (DNS) problem. And none too soon.

Coming Soon: SQL Server 2008

Worldwide Partner Conference announcement promises Microsoft's SQL Server 2008 will be ready to ship by the end of September.

A .NET Identity for Developers

Microsoft introduces "Zermatt," a new set of class libraries for the .NET Framework that simplifies identity management.

Does Microsoft Have an Open Source Heart?

Microsoft's open source outreach effort, which started just a few years ago, isn't dead on arrival, if you hear Sam Ramji, Microsoft's senior director of platform strategy, talk about it. Rather, it's coming alive.

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