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  • Fighting the new electronic war

    Former tank officer Lance Spitzner has another kind of target in his gunsights: the Internet intruder. He is using his military training to catch a different type of enemy: the hacker.

  • Can your bank stop a cyberheist?

    A bank's security system can appear to be almost foolproof, but it usually can't stop carelessness, inside sources or an intruder's persistence.

  • Oracle exec hits out at 'patch' mentality

    Oracle's security chief says the software industry is so riddled with buggy product makers that "you wouldn't get on a plane built by software developers."

  • Managers can be freakier than hackers

    Is the focus corporate management has on the bottom line at the expense of maintaining a secure environment?

  • Hack-proof Linux on the way?

    A start-up company has launched an effort to sell a version of Linux that's less vulnerable to attack, a niche the company hopes will gain it a foothold in the market for the Unix-like operating system.

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  • Security: Are you fully armed?

    Security is like an onion: getting to the heart of it makes people cry a lot. But in order to protect your systems, security vendors are now recommending an onion-like multilayered approach.

  • Old code in Windows is security threat

    Microsoft will more quickly retire old code in its Windows operating system and other software as a result of the company's four-month-old "trustworthy computing" initiative, the company's lead bug basher said in an interview.

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