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Sun Powers New Servers With Opteron Chips, Solaris 10

Eylül 9, 2025 • technewsworld.com

Sun yesterday announced a new family of enterprise-class x64 multi-core available servers powered by AMD Opteron processors and running the Solaris 10 Operating System (OS). Sun said the new servers are about one-third the power, one-and-a-half times the performance, and cost half as much as comparably configured 4-way servers from competitors. “The new Sun Fire…

Symantec Report: Profit-Driven Desktop Attacks on the Rise

Eylül 9, 2025 • technewsworld.com

Today’s virus outbreaks are not as loud as the Code Red attacks of a couple years ago, but beneath the quieter computing landscape is a perilous push to turn the growing amount of personal computers and personal information into profit through cybercrime, the latest Threat Report from security firm Symantec indicated this week. The Symantec…

Symantec Lands Anti-Phishing Firm WholeSecurity

Eylül 9, 2025 • technewsworld.com

In a move to beef up on the latest online security threats, Symantec has agreed to acquire WholeSecurity, a behavior-based security and anti-phishing technology firm. Phishing attacks use both social engineering and technical subterfuge to steal consumers’ personal identity data and financial account credentials. WholeSecurity’s technology analyzes the characteristics and actions of viruses, worms, and…

Microsoft Moves Deeper Into Storage

Eylül 9, 2025 • technewsworld.com

Looking to leverage the latest trend toward continuous, disk-based backup, Microsoft unveiled this week its Data Protection Manager (DPM) and said its solution was available in storage servers and appliances from Hewlett-Packard, Fujitsu and others. Microsoft touted a lower-cost backup and recovery capability that is also faster and “near continuous protection” with DPM, which departs…

Check Point Acquires Sourcefire in $225 Million Deal

Eylül 9, 2025 • technewsworld.com

In the latest in a long string of mergers and acquisitions in the security segment, Check Point Software Technologies yesterday said it signed a definitive agreement to acquire Sourcefire for about US$225 million in cash and stock. Sourcefire is the developer behind Snort, an open-source intrusion prevention and detection technology. That’s an overall market that…

Malware Renders PSP Useless

Eylül 9, 2025 • technewsworld.com

Owners of PlayStation Portables (PSPs) who may be inclined to alter their devices so they can play unauthorized games should beware of the software they use to do so. Anti-malware company Symantec reports that one of the programs that claims it allows gamers to circumvent PSP security measures is actually a piece of malware that…

The Future of E-Mail Archiving

Eylül 9, 2025 • technewsworld.com

The past two years have seen several high-profile corporate scandals that illustrate the dramatic consequences of e-mail misuse — and those are just the ones that have made headlines. In fact, one in five employers has had an e-mail subpoenaed by courts and regulators, and another 13 percent have battled workplace lawsuits triggered by employee…

AOL Wants to Pull Worm Out by Its Rootkit

Eylül 9, 2025 • technewsworld.com

America Online may have preferred a sweet treat this Halloween, but what it got instead was a nasty trick as a potentially destructive worm began targeting users of its AIM instant messaging service. Dubbed W32/Sdbot-ADD by Facetime Security Labs, the worm installs a rootkit-like backdoor on any computer it can sneak into. A rootkit is…

Trend Micro Unveils Spyware Protection Package

Eylül 9, 2025 • technewsworld.com

Trend Micro is picking up on one of the latest security trends with its new home office solution — spyware protection. PC-cillin Internet Security 2006 is designed to combat unpredictable malicious threats like phishing, spyware, spam, hackers, viruses, and other threats. The company said its solution provides enhanced antivirus, anti-spyware, and anti-spam protection to provide…

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