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Microsoft Preps Five Windows Patches
Microsoft’s monthly patch day for December will produce security updates for five vulnerabilities affecting Windows users, the company said Thursday. In an advance notice, the software giant said the maximum severity rating for the five updates is “important.” Some of the security updates may require a restart. The prerelease of basic information ahead of the…
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Cisco Buys Routing Software Startup BCN Systems
Cisco Systems on Thursday agreed to buy up the remaining portion of routing software startup BCN Systems that it didn’t already own. The Santa Clara, Calif., startup brings to the table a software architecture that can help Cisco more efficiently move new features or advanced services into an IOS (Internetwork Operating System) network, according to…
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Spyware: The Next Real Threat
NEW YORK—Spyware will replace the mass-mailing worm as the biggest nuisance—and security threat—facing businesses in 2005. That’s the chilling assessment from Roger Thompson, director of content research security management at Computer Associates International Inc. Thompson used the spotlight of the InfoSecurity 2004 conference here to highlight the growing threat from spyware and adware “pests” and…
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Ellison: Oracle Will Ship PeopleSoft’s Next-Generation Products
SAN FRANCISCO—Oracle Corp. will complete development and ship the next version of PeopleSoft’s flagship enterprise applications even if it ultimately succeeds in buying out its competitor. Oracle CEO Larry Ellison voiced the commitment to complete the PeopleSoft 9 product line, which is still under development, in his keynote address at his company’s OpenWorld customer conference…
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Ellison: Oracle Data Hubs Lead to Solid Biz Decisions
SAN FRANCISCO—You spend $19 a month to get instantaneous information on Iraq or on the U.S. presidential elections through an AOL dialup. That’s cool, but what about getting consistent information on your business, after spending millions on business systems? That’s what Oracle Corp. CEO Larry Ellison asked during his keynote here Wednesday at the Oracle…
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HP Enhances StorageWorks for ILM
In the next round of the ongoing battle for ILM (information lifecycle management) supremacy, Hewlett-Packard Co. has enhanced a series of products designed to help organizations better understand and classify data in an automated fashion. The improvements focus on discovering and classifying data in storage tiers and then moving that data into appropriate storage—either disk,…
