Robert Lemos

Few are mad enough about Vista to line up at midnight. Does that really matter for Microsoft? Robert Lemos reports from Salem, New Hampshire.
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Microsoft launches its latest operating system, Windows Vista–software that security researchers say will make finding exploitable vulnerabilities a lot harder.
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Banks and retailers in the United States and Canada report an increasing amount of illicit transactions linked to a server breach at the company that owns retail chains in the U.S., Canada and Europe.
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Private firms and government agencies will pay thousands to tens of thousands of dollars for original research on critical software flaws–no questions asked.
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A weird series of events yields Canada’s skill test — a four-part math problem to make lotteries and promotions legal. But don’t look for a real challenge.
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Easy-to-find flaws in Web applications boosted–by more than a third–the number of security issues found last year, according to the major vulnerability databases.
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Massive e-mail campaigns aiming to pump up penny stock prices may soon make up half of all spam on the Internet.
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A Republican congressman gets seated in the U.S. House of Representatives, but without a bug in the electronic ballot, the challenger would have won, voting experts say.
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