Gregg Keizer - Author - Good Gear Guide

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Article | 26/09/2007 Microsoft delivers Vista Ultimate add-on, delays others

Just days after users and bloggers raised Cain about Microsoft missing a deadline to deliver add-ons that it promised Windows Vista users, the company...

Article | 25/09/2007 Symantec issues bogus warning of Internet meltdown

Symantec's early-warning system gave its enterprise customers a brief scare late Friday when it erroneously sent an alert that said an Internet-crippl...

Article | 25/09/2007 China jails Panda worm writer for four years

The 25-year-old programmer who unleashed the Panda worm almost a year ago in China was sentenced Monday to four years in prison, a news service report...

Article | 25/09/2007 ForceField beta aims to protect browsers from drive-bys

Check Point Software Monday unveiled a beta of ZoneAlarm ForceField, surfing security software that runs Internet Explorer (IE) and Firefox in a virtu...

Article | 25/09/2007 Microsoft delivers Vista SP1 beta to testers

Microsoft has released a beta of Windows Vista Service Pack 1, a long-awaited reliability and performance update, to an invitation-only group of teste...

Article | 24/09/2007 PDFs put Windows XP at risk, says researcher

The British security researcher who has disclosed two critical flaws in popular media files in the past week said Thursday that a zero-day vulnerabili...

Article | 22/09/2007 Microsoft developer: 'Fuzzing' key to Office security

A wave of attacks targeting Microsoft's Office 2003 last year taught the company some tough security lessons it's now aggressively applying, a Microso...

Article | 21/09/2007 Would-be hacker vandalizes Vietnam Memorial site

A Vietnam War memorial Web site run by veterans was defaced in recent days by a "hacker" who left messages attacking the US, Israel, Armenia and the K...

Article | 21/09/2007 SEC subpoenas Jobs in Apple backdating case, report says

The US Securities and Exchange Commission has subpoenaed Apple CEO Steve Jobs to give a deposition in the agency's stock-backdating case against the c...

Article | 21/09/2007 Hearing loss group complains to FCC about iPhone

A group representing people with a hearing loss filed complaints with the US Federal Communications Commission (FCC) last month, accusing Apple of not...

Article | 21/09/2007 Hackers steal server logins from hosting vendor

Server hosting vendor Layered Technologies admitted this week that hackers broke into its support database and made off with as many as 6,000 client r...

Article | 20/09/2007 Yahoo Messenger hit with ninth zero-day exploit

Attack code that targets Yahoo Messenger has been published on the Internet, a security researcher warned Wednesday, marking the ninth exploit aimed a...

Article | 20/09/2007 Security researcher finds flaw in Windows Media Player

Hackers can wield malicious Windows Media Player files to exploit any unpatched Internet Explorer (IE) vulnerability on a PC -- even if the user relie...

Article | 19/09/2007 Apple sets UK iPhone debut for Nov. 9

Apple will partner with U.K. mobile carrier O2 when it rolls out the iPhone in Great Britain on Nov. 9, the company said on Tuesday. Contrary to specu...

Article | 18/09/2007 Hackers leak antipiracy vendor's e-mails to Net

Thousands of e-mails detailing the operations of MediaDefender, a company hired by movie studios and record labels to flood file-sharing networks with...