Maine rejects Real ID   25 Jan 2007 22:33 GMT
State's legislature overwhelmingly opposes act requiring national digital ID cards, putting Bush administration in a pickle.
Source: ZDNet

Recommendations released for antispyware firms   25 Jan 2007 21:00 GMT
The Anti-Spyware Coalition offers "Best Practices" and "Conflict Indentification" guidelines for antispyware manufacturers.
Source: ZDNet

Liberty Alliance is alive and kicking   25 Jan 2007 20:47 GMT
Q&A Group's new president, Roger Sullivan, says the world is catching on to the need for sharing identity information securely.
Source: ZDNet

Cisco warns of router software vulnerabilities   25 Jan 2007 16:52 GMT
Flaws in Cisco IOS could mean a denial-of-service attack, the network hardware maker says in three security advisories.
Source: ZDNet

Symantec storage revenue down; job cuts ahead   25 Jan 2007 14:00 GMT
Symantec plans to lay off some of its staff as part of a $200 million cost-cutting effort.
Source: Computerworld

Cisco discloses three router vulnerabilities   25 Jan 2007 14:00 GMT
Cisco on Thursday revealed workarounds for three vulnerabilities within its Internet Operating System. Any of the three could lead to a denial of service attack or allow malicious code to be run on an affected switch router.
Source: Computerworld

Competition planned for new crypto standards   24 Jan 2007 18:19 GMT
Attack on current standards prompts National Institute of Standards and Technology to look for alternatives.
Source: ZDNet

Norway toughens iTunes stance   24 Jan 2007 14:00 GMT
A showdown may be in the offing between the Norwegian government and Apple, unless the company agrees to follow that nation's digital-rights management laws and uncouple its iTunes online music store from its iPod media player.
Source: Computerworld

Publishers no heroes to aspiring guitarists in IP fight   24 Jan 2007 14:00 GMT
Novice guitar players may think their struggles will center on finding time to practice and not shattering bystanders' nerves, but the music industry first wants them to enlist in keeping a centuries-old business model alive. Jeremy Kirk reports on the guitar-tab wars and the fall of a queen named OLGA.
Source: Computerworld

Apple patches security flaw in QuickTime   24 Jan 2007 14:00 GMT
Apple patched a vulnerability in its QuickTime media player that could give a hacker control over a computer.
Source: Computerworld