Robert MacMillan

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Report: SEC investigating Mark Hurd’s departure from HP

The U.S. securities commission is examining whether Hurd provided insider information on the 2008 EDS acquisition

IBM uses ‘virtual doorman’ to lock down cloud

The company's Virtual Protection System includes rootkit detection for virtualized environments

AOL may join in bid for Yahoo, report says

Silver Lake Partners and Blackstone Group are named as possible partners

Symantec to buy VeriSign’s authentication business

The security giant will pay US$1.28 billion for VeriSign's authentication technology. The deal is expected to close by September

Google attack part of widespread spying effort

More than 30 other companies were hacked in an attack that Google is tacitly blaming on the Chinese government. Is it really state-sponsored cyber-espionage?

Hackers find a home in Amazon’s EC2 cloud

A hacked Web site gets cyber criminals onto Amazon's EC2 servers, according to an industry observer

Facebook glitch hands off control of corporate Pages

The social networking service inadvertently handed over administrative control for about 17 Facebook Pages on Wednesday, including pages for Microsoft and several airlines

Post-Thanksgiving downer: MS plans 11 patches

System admins in Canada, we hope you enjoyed your long weekend because you

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