InfoWorld RSS FeedInfoWorld - Information Technology News, Computer Networking & SecurityAntitrust review of Google-Yahoo deal no surprise- July 3, 2008 News reports this week that&160;the U.S. Department of Justice is formally reviewing a proposed advertising deal between Google and Yahoo&160;came as no surprise to some tech trade groups and advocacy groups based in Washington, D.C.A Washington Post story Wednesday saying the DOJ had launched a formal investigation of the ad deal wasn&39;t much of a shocker to Google and Yahoo, either, as the two companies had voluntarily delayed the implementation of the deal for more than three months in...http://www.infoworld.com/cgi-bin/redirect?source=rss&url=http://www.infoworld.com/arti... Top 10: Coreflood, more Microsoft-Yahoo, iPhone plans- July 3, 2008 A Trojan horse program that has been around for about six years is now being used to steal system-administrator passwords, including those at banking and brokerage houses, according to security researchers. And it could be that six years from now we&39;ll still be talking about Microsoft&39;s aim to buy Yahoo&39;s search business, which could involve obtaining the entire company and breaking it apart. Meanwhile, early adopters will undoubtedly be out in force on July 11 to be among the first to.http://www.infoworld.com/cgi-bin/redirect?source=rss&url=http://www.infoworld.com/arti... Four 'important' Microsoft patches due Tuesday- July 3, 2008 Microsoft will release four security patches for its Windows, Exchange, and SQL products next Tuesday, all rated "important."The Exchange and SQL flaws are "Elevation of Privilege" bugs, meaning that an attacker could theoretically exploit them to get administrative access to a PC. One of the Windows flaws is labeled a "spoofing" bug, meaning that it could help hackers trick the user into doing things like visiting malicious Web sites.The fourth update fixes a...http://www.infoworld.com/cgi-bin/redirect?source=rss&url=http://www.infoworld.com/arti... Judge grants RIM a stay in Visto patent trial- July 3, 2008 A federal judge has agreed to put off a trial involving Visto&39;s patent-infringement claims against Research in Motion, but limited RIM&39;s ability to cause further delays.The trial over mobile e-mail provider Visto&39;s lawsuit against RIM had been set to begin next week. Visto sued RIM in 2006 in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Texas, claiming its popular BlackBerry system infringed four Visto patents and asking for a shutdown of RIM&39;s service as well as damages. But.http://www.infoworld.com/cgi-bin/redirect?source=rss&url=http://www.infoworld.com/arti... Developers satisfied with Apple's enterprise work- July 3, 2008 Apple&39;s focus over the last year or so has been largely on the iPhone, leaving Mac developers who work in the enterprise market to pretty much fend for themselves. And that seems to be just fine for companies in a newly launched Mac enterprise group and even other Mac developers.Earlier this week Atempo, Centrify, Group Logic, LANrev, and Parallels joined forces to form the Enterprise Desktop Alliance (EDA), a group of software developers dedicated to helping adopt the Mac--especially in...http://www.infoworld.com/cgi-bin/redirect?source=rss&url=http://www.infoworld.com/arti... Opera patches multiple bugs in flagship browser- July 3, 2008 Opera Software patched the newest version of its flagship browser for the first time Wednesday when it released Opera 9.5.1 to fix several flaws.The update patches bugs in the Windows, Mac OS X, and Linux editions, said Opera in notes posted to its Web site.Among the vulnerabilities addressed in 9.5.1 was one credited to noted researcher Billy Rios that affected only the Windows version of the Norwegian-made browser. "Fixed an issue that could be used to execute arbitrary code, as reported.http://www.infoworld.com/cgi-bin/redirect?source=rss&url=http://www.infoworld.com/arti... Expect iPhone, Fourth of July scams, security firm says- July 3, 2008 4Apple&39;s launch of its new iPhone 3G will produce a flurry of spam and scams, a security company warned Thursday.Users should also expect a Storm botnet campaign this weekend that touts the Fourth of July holiday in the U.S., said MX Logic in its monthly threat forecast.The Englewood, Colo.-based security firm said "significant spam, scams and malware campaigns" touting the rollout of the iPhone 3G on July 11 would likely reach users starting next week. "Scams will be...http://www.infoworld.com/cgi-bin/redirect?source=rss&url=http://www.infoworld.com/arti... Critical vulnerability found in VLC Media Player- July 3, 2008 Security company Secunia has found a flaw in the VLC Media Player that could allow an attacker to gain control of someone&39;s PC.The problem, which Secunia ranks as "highly critical," affects version 0.8.6h on Windows. Secunia said in an advisory that version 0.8.6i should be released soon.The flaw is an integer overflow error, which can be exploited to cause a heap-based buffer overflow, a type of problem in how the program allocates memory. Secunia said it can be exploited by...http://www.infoworld.com/cgi-bin/redirect?source=rss&url=http://www.infoworld.com/arti... Google gives away free Web app security scanner- July 3, 2008 Google has released for free one of its internal tools used for testing the security of Web-based applications.Ratproxy, released under an Apache 2.0 software license, looks for a variety of coding problems in Web applications, such as errors that could allow a cross-site scripting attack or cause caching problems."We decided to make this tool freely available as open source because we feel it will be a valuable contribution to the information security community, helping advance the...http://www.infoworld.com/cgi-bin/redirect?source=rss&url=http://www.infoworld.com/arti... Nvidia reports problem with laptop chips- July 3, 2008 Nvidia has uncovered a problem with some older graphics chips that shipped in "significant quantities" of laptop PCs, the company said Wednesday.Nvidia hasn&39;t determined the exact cause of the problem but said it relates to a packaging material used with some of its chips, as well as the thermal design of some laptops. Modern processors generate considerable amounts of heat. Keep up on the latest tech news headlines at InfoWorld News, or subscribe to the Today&39;s Headlines...http://www.infoworld.com/cgi-bin/redirect?source=rss&url=http://www.infoworld.com/arti... |