Stories about: Good Guys

Security features that Apple Inc. added to Leopard look great on paper, but in practice most are half-baked or useless, experts said Wednesday. And none of those features, good or bad, will make a whit of difference in how safe Mac users are when they hit the Internet.

There is a NetApp lawsuit against Sun for IP infringement that has just erupted into near open marketing warfare.

If you can't beat them, scam them back...or slander them into quitting.

Enterprise security decision makers have long been more likely to be swayed by flashy new technologies than by the notion of comprehensive IT restructuring to protect data and other corporate assets, but the situation is evolving rapidly, according to experts participating in Forrester Research's ongoing Security Forum.

There are many ways vulnerability information can get out to the industry but a controversial new site, auctioning such information to the highest bidder, may be the wave of the future.

Think you got a cheery greeting card from a friend via e-mail?

You've got to admit that when it comes to public relations, Google totally rocks. The company's goofy name has become the generic term for "search the Web" -- a branding coup your average Madison Avenue marketing wizard would kill his grandmother for. And the company's motto ("Don't be evil") and ostentatious eco-friendliness successfully promote the image of a wacky company that just wants to be your best buddy.

It's a good time to be a malicious hacker. That's because even though it's not a time of revolutionary new techniques in hacking for profit, business is booming for the established methods. Despite increased investment in information security defenses, the good guys continue to lag badly behind. According to one report by Sophos, which called the recent uptick in ­malware a "deluge," by April 2007, more than 250,000 websites were hosting malicious code and more than 8,000 were being added to that total every day.

Sun Microsystems is putting millions of Java users at risk by staggering the release of security patches for the software, security vendor eEye Digital Security said Monday.

Cellnet has lost distribution rights to supply Sony's headphone range to retail partners. The lucrative and exclusive contract has been picked up by fellow Queensland-based sound and vision accessories distributor, Crest Electronics.

What if the good guys started using the tools of the bad guys to catch the bad guys, but other good guys stopped them from doing that?