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It's the bane of anyone who uses the Internet: remembering different user IDs, passwords and registration information for sites you use regularly. Soon, you may not have to. Some of the Internet's biggest players -- Google, Microsoft, Yahoo, IBM and VeriSign -- are working on a new single sign-on th...

Yahoo, with its 248 million active registered users worldwide, has announced that all of them will be able to use their Yahoo IDs as an OpenID to let them eliminate separate IDs and logins at Web sites that support the open, decentralized digital identity framework. "What Yahoo has announced today i...

Mozilla Foundation this week released patches for its Firefox browser, its Thunderbird e-mail client, and its SeaMonkey Internet application suite, responding to an increase in security issues accompanying the open source software's surging popularity. Firefox has topped the 15 percent mark in brows...

Google's new Code Search, a developer tool that scours the Internet for software code, is stirring up buzz over what some see as its potential for misuse by computer attackers. Code Search is meant to optimize searches for specific software codes, scripts, licenses and related information. However, ...

A fervent debate over which operating system is safest for users has been raging for years, and it looks like the next chapter has begun, thanks to a report issued this week by the United States Computer Emergency Readiness Team (US-CERT). US-CERT's 2005 year-end index declared Unix/Linux logged mor...

America Online today announced the launch of the all-new Netscape 8.0. The new version automatically adjusts safety and security settings to help protect users from phishers and other online exploits as they explore the Web. Based on Firefox 1.0.3, Netscape 8.0 seamlessly and automatically switches ...

Following the lead of the Apache Software Foundation, the Debian Linux group has announced it will not deploy the Sender ID antispam standard due to licensing concerns. The Debian project issued a statement on Saturday, noting that the group abides by a social contract to its users that specified al...