Security

Google gets extension in Northeastern patent suit

Google has until January to reply to charges it used patented search technology developed by a Northeastern professor

GroundWork: Something old, something new

GroundWork Monitor wraps the trusty but crusty Nagios open source monitoring system with a modern management GUI and commercial options

Client-side vulnerabilities loom large

The SANS Institute's annual report on the top 20 Internet security risks finds that attackers have found a target-rich environment in both apps and OSes

Microsoft loses patent appeal, must pay $140M in damages

A federal appeals court has upheld a decision requiring Microsoft and Autodesk to pay z4 for patent infringement and has denied Microsoft's request for a new trial

EC launches probe into TomTom plan to buy Tele Atlas

The European Commission is concerned that the proposed acquisition would stifle competition in the satellite navigation market

Spyware, not virus or worm attacks, takes malware crown

OLPC sued for patent infringement

Massachusetts company claims the OLPC project illegally reverse-engineered its patented multilingual keyboard

Microsoft won’t confirm proxy configuration flaw

Hacker discovers vulnerability that appears to exploit an eight-year-old flaw in Windows

Cost of data breaches keeps rising

Data breaches are costing organizations an average of $197 per lost or stolen customer record, an annual study finds

Web apps, Office among top security headaches, says SANS

Vulnerabilities in the Office applications suite jumped almost 300 percent between 2006 and 2007, according to an annual security report