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How to stay on good terms with your vendors
Relationships with vendors can be fraught with land mines, and nearly everyone in IT knows of one that exploded. Products and services that don't live up to expectations--whether it is fault of the
Beware of vendor claims
Vendors are infamous for claiming that their R&D efforts are yielding amazing results and constitute a breakthrough in their area of expertise. It pays to look at these claims with a grain of
How Microsoft tackles remote access security
If you think your security admins have their hands full thwarting malware attacks, you should see what Microsoft has to deal with. The vendor claims it gets about 100,000 attack attempts each
Oracle 'bug a day' initiative gets canned
He's not saying what prompted his turnaround, but the bug fighter who pledged to release his knowledge of a zero-day bug in Oracle has withdrawn from taking action. Cesar Cerrudo, who runs a
New ActiveX flaw discovered
There's a new concern about Microsoft's ActiveX control, as a security flaw could allow hackers to gain remote control of a PC. According to a Microsoft advisory report late last week, the flaw
