Craig Burton

Ziff Reports:

An average of 50 new pieces of malware have been released on the Internet each day this year, according to the company, and McAfee is forecasting that by the end of 2004 another 18,000 new pieces of malware will have been created.

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Wired reports

But last Friday, in response to the latest security exploit involving Microsoft products, the usually staid U.S. government’s Computer Emergency Readiness Team, or US-CERT, published a warning strongly suggesting that users of Microsoft’s Internet Explorer should switch to another Web browser, due to “significant vulnerabilities” in technologies included in IE.
…downloads of the browsers [...]

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From Donna Buenaventura

Shavlik Technologies, LLC, a leading security software and services provider, today announced the commercial availability of its Shavlik Security Agents security patch management solution. The agent-based application gives network administrators the option to roll out patches via agents for customer applications that require them.
It wasn’t too long ago that Shavlik’s  position was “agent-less [...]

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