The majority of U.S. workers want it all, saying that splitting their time between home and the office is the ideal work arrangement, according to the results of a productivity survey released July 19 by the Hudson Employment Index, a New York-based staffing solutions firm. Fifty-nine percent of the 1,911 respondents believed that telecommuting at least part-time is the perfect work set-up, including the 38 percent that said their ideal work environment would include a mix of working from home and the office and the 21 percent who responded always at home.

IBM will use the latest release of Novell’s SUSE Linux Enterprise 10 to bring the Xen open-source virtualization technology to its x86 servers. The Armonk company announced that it initially will support Xen on its server and blade platforms that run on Intel and Advanced Micro Devices processors, and that its middleware also will support the virtualization technology. Later, IBM will add SUSE Linux Enterprise 10 and Xen support to its other server platforms.

The curtain is set to go up on the annual SHARE conference in Baltimore from Aug. 13-18, where service-oriented architecture and security are at the top of the agenda for the venerable IBM systems user group. Robert Rosen, president of SHARE and an eWEEK Corporate Partner, said some SHARE sessions will deal with the ramifications of mixing SOA and grid computing.

A worm is targeting MySpace users, compromising their "About me" pages and infecting visitors to them, Symantec has warned. When a logged-in MySpace user goes to another member’s "About me" page affected by the ACTS.Spaceflash worm, they are quietly redirected to a URL that holds a malicious Macromedia Flash file, the security company said in an advisory on Spaceflash Tuesday. That file, in turn, will replace the visitor’s own "About me" page with one that is compromised.

A new Trojan horse is so good at hiding itself that some security researchers claim a new chapter has begun in their battle against malicious-code authors. The new pest, dubbed "Rustock" by Symantec and "Mailbot.AZ" by F-Secure, uses "rootkit" techniques crafted to avoid the detection technology used by security software, Symantec and F-Secure said in recent analyses.

While Linux is almost in the mainstream, there are a number of pain-points for existing and potential customers that need to be addressed, says Christine Martino, the vice president for HP’s open source and Linux organization. Addressing the media at an event at its campus on July 17, Martino pointed to a Forrester Research study in 2005 that showed lack of support, immaturity of products and the lack of applications at the top of the list.

As part of its quarterly patch cycle, Oracle released fixes for 65 security vulnerabilities that affect many of its products. Many of the vulnerabilities are significant; 27 of the 65 bugs could be exploited remotely by an anonymous attacker, Darius Wiles, senior manager for security alerts at Oracle, said in an interview. Oracle has no suggested workarounds for any of the issues. Instead it is urging customers to patch their systems.

U.S. regulators said they plan to require all banks to develop an identity theft prevention program for customers that includes "red flags" about suspicious account activity. The new practices would also require credit and debit card issuers to assess the validity of a request for a change of address which is followed by a request for an additional card, the FDIC said.

If you still have questions about Zinedine Zidane’s World Cup head butt, be careful where you look for answers on the Web. Miscreants are using the incident in the final of the soccer World Cup as bait to install malicious code onto the PCs of unwitting sports fans, Websense Security Labs warned on Friday.

AOL plans to make available a first test version of a new security software bundle that it will market not just to subscribers, but to the general public. As reported earlier by CNET News.com, the software, dubbed "Total Care," includes security and PC care features, matching Microsoft’s Windows Live OneCare, launched in late May, and upcoming products from Symantec and McAfee.