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Last week, several users began receiving messages from "Visa International Service" that appeared to direct them to www.visa.com, the company's official site. However, when users clicked on the link, they were sent to a site that looked like Visa's but did not belong to the company. E-mail security ...

Microsoft has agreed to settle a patent infringement lawsuit filed by software firm SPX, which already has convinced a jury that Microsoft infringed its patents related to online meeting software, which SPX sells under the NetMeeting name. The settlement between Microsoft and SPX came not long after...

Although worms can create media furor and disrupt business, to date they have adhered to a strange dichotomy: A given worm may spread rapidly or deliver a destructive payload -- but no worm has accomplished both tasks with equal aplomb. August 2003 was the worst-ever month for malware attacks, tha...

Overstock.com, which offers up to 80 percent off the sticker price of items ranging from dresses to computers, has become a favorite bargain-hunting destination for many online shoppers. Yet the road was not always so smooth for the company. Unlike some of its e-commerce brethren, it did not have ab...

Just as Las Vegas pioneer Bugsy Siegel imagined a city of dice games and slot machines in the middle of the desert, entrepreneurs looked at the Web a few years ago and saw an audience hungry for online gaming. They were right to suspect there was gold in all those clicks. A December 2002 report by t...

In the e-business realm, unique challenges abound for firms that are trying to build a loyal customer following. Consumers may be wary of e-commerce in the face of identity theft, network security breaches, poor online customer service and the lingering shadow of failed dot-coms. However, some compa...

Recently, many traditional firewall vendors have been adding more capabilities, such as antivirus and antispam, to their security offerings. This all-in-one approach has both proponents and opponents. Proponents say more all-inclusive security devices can simplify the all-too-complex life of an IT m...

As companies have grown more confident in their business process planning, the integration industry has worked to refine its products and services to serve enterprise needs, optimizing relationships between customers, partners and suppliers. As a 25-year veteran in the integration space, Sterling Co...

Saying its business would be much larger today if Microsoft had not pushed to create a "new monopoly" in the media player market, RealNetworks said it has filed a civil suit against the software giant seeking $1 billion in lost revenue and damages. The complaint alleges that Microsoft restricted how...

It's about time now for news organizations to start collecting their biggest stories of the year. Those lists do more than just fill pages during the slow holidays, of course -- they lay the foundation upon which future historians can build a rich portrait of what life was like in any given year. It...

Just two days after President Bush signed national antispam legislation, Microsoft has announced that a six-month investigation it conducted with New York Attorney General Eliot Spitzer led to a slew of lawsuits against an e-mail marketing ring believed to be responsible for sending billions of spam...

As enterprises continue to invest in wireless devices and networks, IT specialists will be faced with the growing challenge of maintaining and improving the security of those networks. In many cases, they are getting the financial assistance they need to achieve this goal. Global spending on overall...

Continuing its transformation into a network security and services provider, VeriSign has agreed to buy privately held network security firm Guardent in a deal valued at $140 million. The stock-and-cash agreement calls for VeriSign to retail all 150 of Guardent's full-time employees and to maintain ...

Check Point Software Technologies has announced it will bolster its security product portfolio by buying privately held Zone Labs, the market leader in personal firewalls, in a deal worth about $205 million in stock and cash. "We've had tremendous interest from customers in recent months in endpoint...

In a move designed to prevent its ever-growing range of products from drawing attention away from its core operating system, Microsoft has announced it will form a division solely focused on improving the Windows OS software. The company said the stand-alone Windows unit will create a more streamlin...