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A virus that was first seen on May 22nd has been worming its way across the Internet, stealing personal information in the process. Dubbed "Korgo," the worm exploits the same vulnerabilities and spreads in the same way as the Sasser worm that caused havoc last month. Although the virus is not yet wi...

Web performance measurement firm Keynote Systems recently acquired NetRaker, a developer of customer experience management software. Most of NetRaker's employees -- including president and CEO Douglas van Duyne, who became senior director of customer experience products and designs -- joined Keynote...

Social networking pioneer online service Friendster has tapped former NBC entertainment president Scott Sassa as its CEO, replacing interim CEO Tim Koogle. Friendster gave Koogle the reins in March, three years after he had stepped down as CEO of Yahoo and was replaced by Hollywood studio executive ...

Seagate Technology, a maker of hard-disk drives, plans to cut nearly 3,000 jobs in a bid to save $150 million as it deals with what it described as fiercer-than-expected pressure to lower prices. The company said it will eliminate 2,940 jobs through attrition or layoffs, shedding about 7 percent of ...

When Mel Karmazin on Tuesday announced that he had resigned his position as president of Viacom, the media giant responded by appointing Tom Freston and Leslie Moonves as co-presidents and co-chief operating officers, effective immediately. The two new appointees were Viacom's two most influential d...

A group of technology and consulting companies led by Accenture has landed a U.S. federal contract that could be worth as much as $10 billion. The contract calls for them to implement a border access system that will rely heavily on biometrics and other technologies to track foreign visitors to the ...

Online sales grew more than 50 percent in 2003, soaring past the $100 billion level and turning increasingly profitable, according to a new report from Shop.org and Forrester Research. The "State of Retailing Online 7.0" says sales reached $114 billion in 2003 and are poised to post double-digit gai...

The Chinese government is establishing a committee that will review online games and censor them if it finds questionable content. The review will take place before the games are made available, so subscriptions will never be sold if the committee does not render approval. Objectionable material, ac...

Symantec has reported it has analyzed a virus capable of attacking 64-bit Windows files. The virus, W64.Rugrat.3344, is the first known threat to 64-bit systems. According to Symantec, Rugrat is simply a proof-of-concept virus -- the kind usually written by "white hat" hackers and given to security ...

Police in Taiwan have arrested Wang An-ping, a 30-year-old man who reportedly admitted to authoring Trojan code later used to steal and destroy information on government-owned computers. The arrest marks the second major capture of the week in the information security enforcement arena. Also in cust...

During the economic boom, a million domain names were registered every day. Ninety-nine percent of those names failed. Exhausted or expired, they now have disappeared. While ICANN and the domain registrars wonder on the disappearance of continual registrations and renewals, the real question now is ...

Yahoo has announced it will add a feature to its Web browser toolbar that allows users to easily remove spyware programs from their computers. Called Anti-Spy, the feature is currently in beta. Yahoo will be collecting feedback from beta users and intends to utilize that information to produce the f...

Database sales posted strong gains in 2003, with IBM and Microsoft winning market share but Oracle benefiting the most from the rise of Linux, according to a new report from Gartner Dataquest. Gartner said the worldwide market for relational database management systems grew 5.1 percent last year to ...

At its eWorld customer conference Tuesday, BEA Systems introduced new products and services that support Liquid Computing, an initiative that builds on a Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) foundation. Formerly named Project Sierra, Liquid Computing's goal is to improve interoperability between BEA ...

Seeking to move beyond a $2 billion accounting scandal, Computer Associates has offered to make a $10 million payment to put the probe to rest and has rolled out an information security product and services push designed to capitalize on what is already a strong growth area. Against the backdrop of ...