Tuesday, July 31, 2007

Fighting back against software-agent overload; Mozilla rushes out second Firefox patch

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Fighting back against software-agent overload
Software agents — long seen as a necessary evil by those securing and managing servers, desktops and other endpoint devices — have proliferated to the point of polluting enterprise environments.

EU to name carriers not offering cheap roaming
The deadline for European cell phone carriers to offer a new mobile phone roaming tariff passed on Monday evening with the European Commission saying it plans to name carriers not offering customers the rates.

Mozilla rushes out second Firefox patch this month
Mozilla has patched a pair of nasty flaws in its Firefox browser, two weeks after security researchers first started posting code that showed how the flaws could be exploited in attacks.

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Verizon Wireless to acquire Rural Cellular
Verizon Wireless has agreed to acquire Rural Cellular, a mobile telephone service provider focused on rural areas in the United States, the companies announced Monday.

ICANN seeks to better protect domain-name registrants
The Internet regulation body, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), is asking for the public's input as it revises its accreditation process for registrars, the companies that register and sell domain names.

Utility evades Vista kernel defenses
A security feature in the 64-bit version of Windows Vista can be easily circumvented with a free utility that loads unsigned drivers into the kernel, according to researchers at Symantec.

Nortel and partners jump start U.K. mobile WiMAX
Nortel Networks and two U.K. companies will test mobile WiMAX, a wireless data transfer technology that will compete with Wi-Fi and 3G networks.

Symantec's 'Dark Vision' mines carder sites
Researchers at Symantec have developed a system that mines underground Web sites and chat rooms for sensitive information that is being sold.

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