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Acunetix Offers New Security Audit Service
Internet security company Acunetix is offering customers an extra set of eyes to search for vulnerabilities on their Web sites. The company launched Acunetix SiteAudit on Nov. 27, a new on-demand Web security audit service. SiteAudit is designed to evaluate business Web site and Web application security, while eliminating the cost of having business owners…
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Ubuntu Founder Solicits OpenSUSE List, Irritates Developers
There has been a great deal of heat in open-source circles over the Novell/Microsoft patent deal, but Ubuntu founder Mark Shuttleworth took it to a whole new level when he went to the main OpenSUSE list to invite OpenSUSE’s developers to abandon Novell SUSE for Ubuntu. In his OpenSUSE list note, Shuttleworth opened by slamming…
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McAfee Aims at ISS Customers with Swap Program
Not everyone was happy to see IBM acquire Internet Security Systems, according to officials at McAfee, which launched a new program Nov. 27 aimed at convincing ISS customers and partners to move over to its own technology. When IBM snapped up Atlanta-based ISS for $1.3 billion in late August 2006, a number of the security…
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Models and Measures
Announcements this week from Sweden’s Telelogic and Alfresco Software in San Francisco address both ends of the process that brings the next generation of Web-based applications to reality. Telelogic announced Nov. 27 its release of Version 3.0 of its Tau model-driven design tool. I had a chance to review the details of the new version…
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Mac OS X Spyware Sample Spotted
Anti-virus researchers have spotted the first signs of an adware/spyware program capable of launching browser windows on Apple Computer’s Mac OS X. According to a warning from F-Secure, a security vendor in Helsinki, Finland, the proof-of-concept program could be silently installed on a Mac’s User account and hooked to each application used by that account.…
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Mine! All Mine!
Welcome to the all-new Tech Directions column, now of a higher quality than ever before! I hope that all of you will enjoy the clearer, more insightful content that comes from this greatly improved column platform. Now, on to the content! Wait. Just a second. The specialized “security” software that comes with my new column…
