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Telephone banking system recognizes your voice
Date: 10/24/06
Keywords: no keywords
RSA product aims to use voice recognition to identify customers for financial transactions conducted over the phone.
Source: http://news.zdnet.com/2100-1009_22-6129174.html
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Microsoft's free anti-spyware hits market
Date: 10/24/06
Keywords: software, security
Windows Defender a direct challenge to competing products from security software vendors.
Source: http://news.zdnet.com/2100-1009_22-6128978.html
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Microsoft sets Sender ID free
Date: 10/23/06
Keywords: technology, microsoft
The e-mail authentication technology can now be used without fear of a response from Microsoft's intellectual property lawyers.
Source: http://news.zdnet.com/2100-1009_22-6128763.html
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Autodesk rushes out IE 7 compatibility fix
Date: 10/23/06
Keywords: browser, microsoft
Prepares a "hotfix" for two applications in aim to remedy a problem working with Microsoft's browser update.
Source: http://news.zdnet.com/2100-1009_22-6128726.html
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Microsoft blocks 'Black Hat' Vista hack
Date: 10/21/06
Keywords: security
The Windows update no longer allows a driver hack demonstrated at the Black Hat security confab. But the fix may spell trouble.
Source: http://news.zdnet.com/2100-1009_22-6128219.html
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Gartner: Vista antitrust tweaks to take years
Date: 10/20/06
Keywords: no keywords
Analyst firm says changes to the 64-bit version of the OS update could also cause compatibility trouble in the interim.
Source: http://news.zdnet.com/2100-1009_22-6128157.html
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Microsoft says McAfee 'inaccurate, inflammatory'
Date: 10/20/06
Keywords: security, microsoft
Wanting details on Vista security, McAfee says Microsoft is stalling. Microsoft says it has its own timetable.
Source: http://news.zdnet.com/2100-1009_22-6127853.html
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Minor issues surface after IE 7 launch
Date: 10/20/06
Keywords: security, microsoft
Reports of a security bug are flawed, Microsoft says. However, there are some compatibility woes and Microsoft servers are buckling under high IE 7 demand.
Source: http://news.zdnet.com/2100-1009_22-6127792.html
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Security rivals shut out of Microsoft meeting
Date: 10/19/06
Keywords: no keywords
An online meeting to discuss Windows Vista changes crashed shortly after it started, leaving Symantec and McAfee in the dark.
Source: http://news.zdnet.com/2100-1009_22-6127559.html
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Zombies try to blend in with the crowd
Date: 10/19/06
Keywords: web
Hackers aim to make networks of hijacked computers go unnoticed by merging their communications with common Web traffic.
Source: http://news.zdnet.com/2100-1009_22-6127304.html
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Microsoft sets Vista meeting with security companies
Date: 10/19/06
Keywords: security
Powwow to discuss planning for creation of techniques that let security companies use core components of 64-bit editions of the next Windows operating system.
Source: http://news.zdnet.com/2100-1009_22-6127355.html
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Study: Workers often jot down passwords
Date: 10/18/06
Keywords: technology, security
Companies should look to technology to make up for employees' lack of security savvy, authors recommend.
Source: http://news.zdnet.com/2100-1009_22-6126924.html
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FBI director wants ISPs to track users
Date: 10/17/06
Keywords: no keywords
Robert Mueller becomes latest Bush administration official to call for ISPs to store customers' data.
Source: http://news.zdnet.com/2100-1009_22-6126877.html
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Oracle plugs 101 security flaws
Date: 10/17/06
Keywords: no keywords
Quarterly patch release fixes 101 vulnerabilities across Oracle's products. Many of the flaws are serious.
Source: http://news.zdnet.com/2100-1009_22-6126864.html
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Exploit code released for Nvidia flaw
Date: 10/17/06
Keywords: linux
Rapid7, which says it discovered the flaw in the Linux graphics driver, says risk goes back to 2004.
Source: http://news.zdnet.com/2100-1009_22-6126846.html
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Windows virus worms onto some Apple iPods
Date: 10/17/06
Keywords: virus
A small number of the video media players have been shipped with the RavMonE virus, the company warns.
Source: http://news.zdnet.com/2100-1009_22-6126804.html
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Chertoff: Web could be terror training camp
Date: 10/17/06
Keywords: security
Free flow of information on Net can help disaffected people in U.S. "radicalize" themselves, says security czar.
Source: http://news.zdnet.com/2100-1009_22-6126510.html
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Another PowerPoint bug threatens users
Date: 10/17/06
Keywords: microsoft
A yet-to-be-fixed vulnerability in PowerPoint poses a potential threat to users of the Microsoft presentation tool.
Source: http://news.zdnet.com/2100-1009_22-6126465.html
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Netflix fixes Web 2.0 bugs
Date: 10/17/06
Keywords: no keywords
Site weakness could have let outsiders change a user's address and potentially hijack their account.
Source: http://news.zdnet.com/2100-1009_22-6126438.html
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Phishers hijack IM accounts
Date: 10/16/06
Keywords: web
Scammers are sneaking into instant-messaging accounts to send out lures for their information-thieving Web sites.
Source: http://news.zdnet.com/2100-1009_22-6126367.html