Jim Wagner

The year 2005 was a banner year for open source Web browser Firefox, a fact underscored by recent market share numbers released by site tracker NetApplications. The company saw the number of Firefox users inch tantalizingly close to the 10 percent figure (9.57 percent, to be exact) in December 2005, a nearly 1 percent jump […]

Computer forensic specialist Guidance Software found itself on the receiving end of a malicious hacking attack that managed to swipe sensitive information on reportedly thousands of customers. According to a report by the Washington Post, roughly 3,800 customer credit-card numbers were taken in the attack and officials are working with the U.S. Secret Service to […]

A worm targeting the three major instant messaging (IM) networks is spreading its payload to buddy lists. The IM.GifCom.All worm shows up as an innocuous-seeming URL in a chat message screen, featuring a link to what appears to be a Santa Claus site, said IM security vendor IMlogic, which first discovered the worm Monday. In […]

Security software vendor McAfee is pooling quarantine queues from its appliances to make them more manageable for administrators. The McAfee Quarantine Manager is a free add-on component to the Secure Messaging Gateway and Secure Internet Gateway appliances. It provides a central repository for questionable e-mails that hit a corporate network — spam, viruses, potentially unwanted […]

Sony BMG is recalling the copyright-protected music CDs that have been causing no end of grief to the company. The recall comes in the wake of a large number of security issues surrounding the use of Extended Copyright Protection (XCP), a digital rights management (DRM) application created by U.K.-based First 4 Internet, and the applications […]

Anti-spam vendor Postini has looked at spam from both sides now. The Spamhaus Project, a popular U.K.-based organization that maintains a database of spamming activity, placed two of the San Carlos, Calif., company’s IP addresses on its Spamhaus Block List (SBL) recently after receiving numerous complaints of unsolicited e-mail from the company. While the IP […]

Computer Associates is divesting its open source enterprise database, Ingres, to venture buyout specialists Garnett & Helfrich Capital, officials announced Monday. Ingres Corp. will take over management of the open source project and sell services and support on top of the software, a la JBoss. While CA retains its ties to the software with a […]

Yahoo and Microsoft are linking up their IM networks to allow MSN and Yahoo Messenger users to communicate across the two platforms, creating a global network of more than 275 million strong. The agreement brings actual federated IM to the industry after years of mostly talk about the prospect. During a press conference today, the […]

Microsoft is changing its licensing model for customers who virtualize their software on enterprise servers. Customers opting for the new licensing scheme, which goes into effect Dec. 1, will be able to run up to four virtual instances of Microsoft Server 2003 R2 on one physical server at no additional cost, the company said today. […]

Software security developer Symantec introduced a new partnership program to round out its security appliances, officials announced Tuesday. The message security solutions compatibility track ensures that software used on Symantec’s security appliances is compatible with its own product line. “By integrating select, complementary third-party products with our key messaging security solutions, Symantec and its technology […]