Matthew Broersma

Articles by Matthew Broersma

Microsoft wrongly labels Google’s Gmail as virus

Microsoft's fledgling consumer anti-virus service, Windows Live OneCare, wrongly identified Google's Gmail service as a virus infection, Microsoft has admitted.

Samba won’t dance to Microsoft-Novell beat

Samba developers have slammed the Microsoft-Novell deal reached earlier this month, calling it "unacceptable" and warning that it may cause significant damage to the open source community.

European governments back open source

Millions of pounds of public funding have been put into two projects designed to promote open source in the U.K. and across Europe.

Trojan installs antivirus scanner to kill rivals

Security experts have discovered new spambot software that installs its own antivirus scanner to eliminate competition, alongside a number of other sophisticated features.

Hackers exploit another unpatched IE bug

The SANS Institute's Internet Storm Center set its Internet danger warning level to "yellow" over the weekend as criminal gangs began targeting Internet Explorer browsers with an unpatched security hole.

Explorer security hole about to go global

The unpatched Internet Explorer exploit discovered in the wild this week could quickly spread to thousands of malicious websites as soon as this weekend, warn security researchers.

Microsoft preps security code for grid computing

Microsoft is developing a security language for grids, designed to deal with some of the security issues raised by grids' decentralized nature.

EC reviews creation of telecom super-regulator

The creation of a pan-European telecoms regulator has found significant industry support for the idea, though most remain against the notion overall.

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