The U.S. Supreme Court declined to hear an appeal by a programmer who sued his former employer for changing his programs’ source code. William Krause charged in 1996 that Titleserv, a title insurance firm, had committed copyright infringement when it altered eight programs he had written for the company over a decade of work. Krause left the programs, which were designed to manage client information, on Titleserv’s servers when he quit working for the company. He placed locks on the code and stipulated that Titleserv could run–but not alter–the programs, prompting a lawsuit from the company, which claimed it needed to make code tweaks in order to fix bugs and to perform other "routine" functions. Company employees ultimately picked the locks and made the changes they said they needed. A federal trial court ruled in favor of Titleserv, and an appeals court upheld that judgment last year.

NuXo Technologies announced their new Managed Email Filtering Services for small companies. NuXo Managed Email Filtering Services for small companies is user-friendly and easy to implement. It provides a simplified administrative interface. And because the solution consists in fully managed services, no maintenance is required from the customer.

Senforce Technologies announced version 3.1 of Senforce ESS (Endpoint Security Suite). ESS centrally enforces an organization’s security policies by location–for every PC worldwide in a ’24×7′ fashion–whether or not they’re connected to company-managed networks or even to the Internet. Version 3.1 builds upon the same sophisticated endpoint security features and takes them to new levels of performance, scalability and manageability in support of large enterprise deployments. Senforce ESS is a single, integrated solution for complete endpoint security. Rather than deploying several products with non-integrated components from multiple vendors, organizations use ESS’s modular design for flexible, tightly integrated endpoint security. ESS provides centralized management and policy definition, location-aware policy enforcement, powerful reporting and strong audit controls.

A new worm that propagates by exploiting security vulnerabilities in Web server software is attacking Linux systems. The worm spreads by exploiting Web servers that host susceptible scripts at specific locations, according to antivirus software maker McAfee, which has named the worm "Lupper." Lupper blindly attacks Web servers, installing and executing a copy of the worm when a vulnerable server is found, McAfee said in its description of the worm.

Check Point Software Technologies announced its new Integrity Anti-Spyware program, becoming the latest major vendor to offer its anti-spyware technology to corporate users. Integrity Anti-Spyware, scheduled to hit the market in November, is designed to detect, automatically quarantine and remove spyware programs. Check Point, primarily a seller of firewalls and virtual private networks, historically has been slow to launch new products. With this move, the company has joined McAfee and Symantec, which introduced enterprise anti-spyware products earlier this year.

A growing number of American chief executives rate blogs high as employee communication tools, though a majority of them remain skeptical about starting their own, a new study shows. About 59 percent of CEOs surveyed said they find Web logs, or blogs, useful for internal communications, while 47 percent see them as tools for communication with external audiences, according to a study conducted by PRWeek and Burson-Marsteller.

Papa John’s has beefed up security for its Web-based email system after the pizza chain learned that internal email and customer data had been exposed. The leak at the pizza chain made internal corporate email and thousands of customer comments available to anyone with a Web browser. The customer comments were submitted between Sept. 29 and Nov. 7 and included names, addresses, phone numbers and email addresses of customers.

A preliminary report released by the Department of Homeland Security seems to scatter cybersecurity responsibilities across the government and the private sector while sticking to generalities about future plans. In its 175-page draft of the National Infrastructure Protection Plan, or NIPP, the department outlines a broad framework for protecting the nation’s "critical infrastructure" and "key assets"–bureaucratic argot referring to everything from the power grid to dams to computer systems.

Learn how you can manage the ever-growing mail files of your Lotus Notes users, conserving your system resources while ensuring your Notes users continue to enjoy high performance and reliability. This article discusses how large mail files can affect server performance, and offer tips for reducing database and Inbox size, the cost of full-text indexes, and other ideas for users, administrators, and planners.

With Monday’s official release of the Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 toolkit, IBM is making a reversal of sorts and delivering a new version of its SCM tools for Visual Studio 2005 customers. IBM officials said the company would make its IBM Rational ClearCase and IBM Rational ClearQuest software configuration management tools available for Visual Studio 2005 customers by the end of this week. The move is significant in that it beats Microsoft at providing SCM tools of its own for the team development version of its new development platform: Visual Studio 2005 Team System, IBM officials noted.