Jaikumar Vijayan

The ferocious rivalry between Sun Microsystems Inc. and IBM Corp. continues to yield big benefits for users.

More than 3,000 users of IBM Corp.'s venerable iSeries midrange systems formerly known as the AS/400 will gather in Nashville this week for the biannual Common trade show.

In better economic times, companies outsourced IT to get access to scarce IT talent. But in today

Summary: Morningstar Inc.'s Canadian subsidiary is being forced to spend thousands of dollars on a security audit to reassure users about the safety of its investment-research Web site after a person claimed he broke into the unit's servers and accessed confidential customer information.

Microsoft Corp. said it's investigating an alleged flaw in recent versions of its Internet Explorer (IE) browser software that could allow attackers to spoof legitimate Web sites, steal content from browser cookies and gain access to certain types of files on a victim's system.

Increased use of videoconferencing and Web collaboration technologies, along with an emerging class of malicious code that blends virus and wormlike capabilities, represent some of the biggest security challenges for 2002, say analysts.

The increased use of videoconferencing and Internet-collaboration technologies, the rush toward Web services and an emerging class of malicious code that blends virus and wormlike capabilities represent some of the biggest security challenges for 2002, according to analysts.

A buffer-overflow vulnerability in the latest version of America Online Inc.'s popular Instant Messenger (AIM) chat software could let remote attackers break into a victim's system and execute arbitrary code.