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Developers fast to fixsource bugs
Holes in popularsource packages found in a government-funded scan were plugged swiftly, Coverity says.

Cybercrooks ramp up against antivirus firms--and each other
Net criminals are fighting the good guys--and other bad guys--as they pursue more financial gain, Kaspersky Labs says.

Spitzer puts another firm in spyware crosshairs
New York's attorney general alleges that Direct Revenue secretly installed millions of spyware programs that popped up ads.

Payment processor fears credit card crooks
Authorize.Net says its service was used in an attempt to charge money to stolen credit and debit cards.

The secret of phishers' success
Scams are sophisticated enough to trap many consumers despite widespread public warnings, a study finds.

McAfee repackages security products
New "Total Protection" products for businesses aim to simplify purchase, installation, management and running of security software.

Phishers set hidden traps on eBay
Click on a specially crafted listing, and you could get a nasty surprise. But eBay is on the case.

Seeking changes to the DMCA
Controversial law hinders warnings to consumers on matters like Sony rootkits, security researchers say.

Yahoo: We need effective cybercrime laws
Policymakers need to define illegal use of technology rather than focus on how an action breaks the law, Yahoo exec says.

Fighting fraud by baiting phishers
RSA Security's newly acquired Cyota overwhelms phishing sites with fake usernames, passwords and credit card info.

Linux News

InfoWorld: The Beginning of the End
You've heard this many places. Microsoft is in a bit of trouble. If you think that you've heard this before--and that you can't count out a business with such strong financials, I suggest you revisit a bit of recent history...

CNET News: Unisys' Linux Booth Too Hot to Handle
The LinuxWorld Conference and Expo has been a hot show in the computing industry, but not usually hot enough to trip fire alarms...

EE Times: Interest in Embedded Linux Remains Low, Survey Finds
Only 17 percent of embedded systems designers are currently using embedded Linux, and 66 percent say they are either not interested in using it or do not expect to be using it anytime soon...

DesktopLinux: Mono 1.2 Beta Aims to Enable Cross-Platform Desktop Linux Apps
Novelld the LinuxWorld Conference Monday with the introduction of the beta program for Mono 1.2, thesource implementation of the Microsoft .NET framework...

CIO Today: IBM Partners with 3Com on VoIP
IBM and 3Com intend to deliver the first IP telephony suite that can run in a single Linux-on-Power partition on the System i...

ConsortiumInfo: Case Study II: A National Archive Moves to ODF
Today, I'll describe another case study in process: the decision by the National Archives of Austalia (NAA) to move its digital archives program to software that supports ODF...

NewsForge: Software Freedom Law Center has a Legal Umbrella for FOSS Projects
Why a Conservancy? Dan Ravicher, legal director of the SFLC, says that one of the first things that the law center recommends for projects is to form a corporate entity...

Editor's Notes From the Road: Laptop for World's Children: Priceless
Blogging from LinuxWorld, your editor ponders the $100 laptop.

vnunet: High Migration Costs Holding Back Linux
Novell's newly developed SuSE Linux client operating system has an improved user interface and features, but the high cost of migrating from Windows remains a major barrier to uptake, according to Gartner...

ZDNet UK: JBoss Plans for IPO
Another round of venture capital funding could be on the cards as thesource firm looks towards going public...

ZDNet: Linux Lab Looks to Bridge Dueling Interfaces
TheSource Developer Labs is previewing work that attempts to make life easier for software companies by bridging GNOME and KDE, the two competing graphical interfaces most widely used with Linux...

Linux.com: Gregarius Aggregator Succeeds with Feeds
Gregarius is written mainly in PHP, and available under the GNU General Public License (GPL)...

informIT: The Need for Virtualization and Xen
'Computers are never fast enough.' That used to be the mantra of computer users everywhere...

DebianHelp: PostgreSQL Database Server Configuration in Debian
PostgreSQL is a fully featured object-relational database management system...

HowtoForge: The Perfect Xen 3.0 Setup For Debian
This tutorial provides step-by-step instructions on how to install Xen (version 3.0.1) on a Debian Sarge (3.1) system...