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SBC in Merger Talks with AT&T?
Rumors have surfaced that SBC Communications Inc. has begun serious, preliminary negotiations to buy AT&T Corp., a move that would further consolidate the rapidly constricting telecommunications sector. The nation’s largest long-distance carrier, AT&T, of Bedminster, N.J., turned its sights in recent years to the lucrative business market, as pricing pressures in the long-distance consumer market…
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EMC Program Aims to Lure Veritas Backup Customers
Hoping to lure customers away from its chief backup and recovery software rival, EMC has quietly launched its new quarterly roll-out program, called “Safe Switch.” The program is designed to woo customers deploying Veritas Software’s backup products that are considering or currently engaged in software migrations, or those wary of Symantec’s impending merger with Veritas.…
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What Will EMC Migration Program Mean?
EMC’s quiet announcement of a program that offers financial incentives for customers to abandon Veritas storage products for EMC’s own portfolio may influence some to make the switch, although experts don’t believe it will cause enough change to effect a market shift. The deal, dubbed “Safe Switch,” offers users financial incentives to switch to a…
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MySQL ‘Bot’ Attacks Windows Systems
Malicious hackers have launched a zero-day bot attack against default Windows installations of the MySQL database engine, infecting vulnerable systems at the rate of 100 per minute, security experts warned on Thursday. The bot takes advantage of the publicly released “MySQL UDF Dynamic Library Exploit” to break into the open-source MySQL package. Once a database…
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DoS Flaws Haunt BIND Server Software
The nonprofit Internet Systems Consortium has rolled out fixes for a pair of denial-of-service flaws in its BIND (Berkeley Internet Name Domain) implementation of the Domain Name System protocols. The vulnerabilities were reported in BIND versions 8.4.4, 8.4.5 and 9.3.0 and carry a “moderately critical” rating from independent research firm Secunia. BIND is by far…
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Microsoft to Make Windows Anti-Piracy Program Mandatory
Microsoft Corp. is planning to make its currently voluntary Windows anti-piracy program mandatory some time in the second half of 2005, company officials said on Wednesday. So far, however, Microsoft has no timetable for broadening the program to other Microsoft products, such as Microsoft Office, server software or games, company officials said. But they did…
