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  • Universities, research centres clean up after attacks

    Academic supercomputing labs continue to clean up Linux and Solaris servers targeted by unknown attackers over the last month, as law enforcement officials investigate the crimes.

  • Researcher: Windows flaw remains

    A class of attacks that allows a user to take control of any PC or server could leave computer systems in corporations and Internet cafes vulnerable to attack, a researcher says.

  • Net threat overstated, says security researcher

    Widespread reports about a flawed communications protocol making the Internet vulnerable to collapse were overblown, according to the researcher credited with uncovering the security problem.

  • Internet fathers get presidential medal

    Robert Kahn and Vint Cerf, who developed the TCP/IP protocols used to transmit traffic across the Internet, will this week receive the Presidential Medal of Freedom, America's highest civil award.

  • Researcher warns users of bad Wi-Fi passwords

    A security expert has warned users of the latest wireless network security standard, Wi-Fi Protected Access, to pick good passwords or risk being compromised.

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  • Researcher: Windows flaw remains

    A class of attacks that allows a user to take control of any PC or server could leave computer systems in corporations and Internet cafes vulnerable to attack, a researcher says.

  • Researcher warns users of bad Wi-Fi passwords

    A security expert has warned users of the latest wireless network security standard, Wi-Fi Protected Access, to pick good passwords or risk being compromised.

  • Security pro: Windows easier to 'own'

    Microsoft has been waiting for security researchers to say that its Windows operating system has a lower total cost of ownership. One finally has, but that's not good news.

  • Oracle plans to patch pack of flaws

    Database software maker Oracle promised on Tuesday in the US to quickly make patches available for the more than 30 flaws found by a British security researcher.

  • Anti-virus firm secures lists after virus leak

    Finland-based F-Secure has added more security to its customer mailing lists, after a moderator accidentally forwarded a virus to users of the company's antivirus software.

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  • Windows Server 2003 gets first patch

    Less than two months after launching its Windows Server 2003 operating system, Microsoft has released a security patch to fix a vulnerability that could let malicious sites run damaging code on the server.

  • IBM boosts hard drives with "tag 'n seek"

    IBM is expected to announce technology that shortens the time it takes to find information is being extended to its desktop hard drives.

  • IBM laying storage-brick foundations

    IBM researchers are working on a new storage system prototype that packs hard-drive modules into a dense, Rubik's Cube-like structure.

  • New wireless standard gets green light

    The next generation of digital entertainment products will run off a new wireless networking standard completed this week

  • CES: Tech gets cooking

    It's a microwave oven! It's an Ethernet port! At the Las Vegas show, gadget makers decided the hottest tech niche was in the kitchen and put the "appliance" back in "Internet appliance."

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