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Test Run: WatchGuard's Firebox X Edge

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The difference between a consumer firewall and a commercial-grade SOHO firewall is in the features. Both should be easy to configure and have robust security features, but your average consumer rarely needs to support remote access IPsec VPN, LAN-to-LAN IPsec VPN, inbound and outbound filtering, detailed logging and failover. . . .

McAfee Secured For Defense With EAL3

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IT security vendor McAfee (Quote, Chart) has gone where no other security vendor has gone, so far at least. The company said its intrusion protection system (IPS), Intrushield, has achieved Common Criteria Certification EAL 3. . . .

SP2 vs. the plug-ins

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While security experts applaud Microsoft's recently released Service Pack 2, some companies that distribute their software over the Web are watching the product's introduction with dread and suspicion.For years, software developers have offered applications to the world in Microsoft's Internet Explorer Web browser . . .

Apache Says It Won't Support Sender ID

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The Apache Software Foundation, developers of the popular open-source Apache web server, said on Thursday that it wouldn't support the proposed anti-spam standard Sender ID, because the licensing terms set by Microsoft Corp. are too strict. . . .

Oracle's first monthly patch batch fails to placate critics

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Oracle this week released a multitude of security fixes in a long-awaited and extensive series of patches that constitute its first monthly security update.In January and February, UK-based security tools firm Next Generation Security Software (NGSSoftware) notified Oracle of 34 security vulnerabilities affecting various versions of its database software. Patches have at last been delivered, along with fixes other vulns discovered by other security researchers and Oracle itself. . . .

Cell Phones: Don't Count Linux Out

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It's catching on slower than expected, but more companies are signing upIn February, 2003, electronics giant Motorola Inc. (MOT ) stunned the mobile-phone business with a bold change of course. During the industry's annual shindig in Cannes, the Schaumberg (Ill.) company announced the world's first handset built around the Linux operating system and unveiled plans to use the populist software in consumer phones from then on. . . .

HP sees market for mobile Linux

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From the outside, Hewlett-Packard Co.'s new Compaq nx5000 notebook looks much like any other portable computer. But inside there's a difference.The operating system installed on the nx5000 is not Microsoft Corp.'s ubiquitous Windows, but Linux. . . .

Oracle Delivers First Monthly Patch Rollup

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Oracle on Tuesday delivered its first-ever monthly rollup of security patches, addressing more than 30 vulnerabilities discovered by Next Generation Security Software Ltd. between January and February, and also tackling more than 20 vulnerabilities that eWEEK.com has learned were recently discovered by Application Security Inc. . . .

Novell reshuffles biz for Linux focus

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Novell is reorganising its business to focus on two key areas - Linux and identity management.The networking software firm's Nterprise and Linux operations will be folded into a Platform and Application Services group CRN reports. Its other two business divisions, Secure iServices and Resource Management, will be brought together under a new Identity Services operation. The names of the new divisions are subject to change. . . .

Don't regulate RFID--yet

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Not many people may remember this, but Phil Donahue was one of the digital age's first technophobes.In 1974, the TV talk show host denounced the Universal Product Code, better known as the bar code, as a dastardly plot that would let grocery stores trick consumers. Grocers would replace price tags with bar codes and confuse shoppers, Donahue informed his viewers repeatedly. . . .

Linux loses the Philips webcam driver

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The latest set of USB patches includes an unwelcome entry: the Philips webcam driver has been removed by its author's request. The issue is whether this driver can contain a hook for the insertion of a proprietary, binary-only module; when that hook was removed (due to licensing concerns) the author (Nemosoft Unv) decided to pull the whole thing. He has put up a web page describing his position on the matter. . . .