Paul Roberts

Microsoft Corp. Chairman and Chief Software Architect Bill Gates will use his keynote address on Sunday at the annual Comdex 2003 trade show in Las Vegas to announce plans to make the company's Exchange e-mail server better at stopping unsolicited commercial

Some customers of the popular PayPal online payment service were swindled recently after identity thieves used spam and phony Web sites to swipe their personal billing data and credit card numbers.

Microsoft Corp. chairman and chief software architect Bill Gates used part of his keynote address at the annual Comdex 2003 trade show in Las Vegas to announce plans to make the company's Exchange e-mail server better at stopping unsolicited commercial (

Industry consortium The Liberty Alliance Project published the final version of its Phase 2 specifications Wednesday and named five companies that will be releasing identity management products that support the new standards.

Microsoft Corp. released the second installment of its now monthly security bulletins, patching three software holes in Windows systems that it said were critical security risks and a fourth problem with Microsoft Office that the company rated important.

Just in time for the holidays, Internet infrastructure company VeriSign Inc. is unveiling a new, snazzier design for its ubiquitous VeriSign Trust Mark seal.

Cisco Systems Inc. on Monday will announce a new version of its flagship VPN 3000 Series Concentrator product that includes Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) VPN features.

A partnership announced Monday will allow networking company 3Com Corp. to sell security switches by Crossbeam Systems Inc. to companies under the 3Com brand name.