Security

Update: Microsoft settles antitrust suit in California

The settlement's final version still under negotiation

Trade groups target Russian piracy

The call for more action came after the U.S. last week decided to keep Russia on its "priority watch list" for intellectual property protection problems

Update: IBM acquires BuildForge

Big Blue purchase aims to help developers meet compliance demands

German agency to release open source security suite

GNU Privacy Guard for Windows enables data encryption, easy integration with Outlook 2003

SSL Trojans and an e-commerce crisis

Update: Visto seeks BlackBerry service shutdown

Visto claims that Research In Motion's BlackBerry service violates four of its patents, putting BlackBerry service up in the air again

SANS: Attacks shift to Mac, zero-day

In the last six months, malicious hackers have shifted away from looking for holes in Windows Services

RFID standards released IT by vendors, privacy groups

Companies using RFID tags should notify customers in all cases, tell customers if they can deactivate the tags and build in security, the group said

LogLogic getting into open source

LogLogic aims provide an alternative to Windows' event collection technology

Splunk touts partnership with CA

Startup's module offers integration between Splunk Professional and CA's Unicenter NSM