Network World reports
Companies that use Microsoft’s Automatic Updates feature will have to install desktop blockers to thwart the delivery and installation of Windows XP Service Pack 2 this week.
That’s a first, a patch to prevent a patch. No matter what, SP2 is going to be a rough transistion.
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Network World sez
Anti-virus software company McAfee Monday said it is buying Foundstone, which makes software for detecting and managing software vulnerabilities, for $86 million in cash.
The acquisition will add Foundstone’s line of vulnerability management software to McAfee’s growing list of security products. McAfee plans to combine Foundstone’s technology for spotting and remediating software vulnerabilities [...]
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Nework World sez:
Amid growing worries that Windows-based medical systems will endanger patients if Microsoft-issued security patches are not applied, hospitals are rebelling against restrictions from device manufacturers that have delayed or prevented such updates.
Moreover, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is encouraging the aggrieved hospitals to file written complaints against the manufacturers, which could result in [...]
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Interview with Mikko Hyppˆnen from F-Secure
What’s your overall take on the virus situation today?
Itís been getting worse and worse. I entered the business in 1991, but then things were easy. Back then we just had boot viruses that used to be physically carried around on a disk to be spread, so it would take a [...]
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