Keeping bugs and bad guys at bay
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Apple issues patch for iTunes to prevent attacks. Also: Identity thief gets jail time.
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Stanley Works tries to keep growth going by focusing on businesses that keep baddies out.
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By Ryan Blitstein, San Jose Mercury News, Calif.  Feb. 7--Computer security is often about keeping the bad guys out. On Tuesday, Microsoft unveiled a series of technologies that make it easier to let the right people in.
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By COLLEEN DISKIN, STAFF WRITER The state's environmental cops are often handcuffed as they try to protect the public from health risks that lurk beneath old industrial properties.
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EcoSMART, a plant oil pesticide launching at retail stores in the Boston  area this week, kills bugs just as effectively as traditional pesticides  registered by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), without  risk to humans, pets, endangered species and the environment.
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Scary drug-resistant bacteria are on the rise, but there are simple ways to avoid infection.
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Revamped Norton AntiVirus, Personal Firewall, and AntiSpam tools fight pests and dangers online.
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The makers of such insecticides as Raid and Off are taking a swat at what they consider a new nuisance in the neighborhood: nontoxic, botanical pesticides that are ratcheting up competition in the war on bugs.
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They're not obvious, and they're not always cheap.
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Force Protection learns that size really does matter.
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Change a light bulb and stop a war. Build smarter homes and keep the seas from rising.
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Much More Than Just Keeping an Eye on Your Household
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By John Myers, Duluth News-Tribune, Minn.  Feb. 4--A metallic-green half-inch bug that doesn't even bite is sending chills through Minnesota foresters and entomologists this year as it moves toward the state's forests.
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By Millar, Jocelyn G  POISONS, SPRAYS, AND GLUES Secret Weapons: Defenses of Insects, Spiders, Scorpions, and Other Many-Legged Creatures. Thomas Eisner, Maria Eisner, and Melody Siegler. Belknap Press, Cambridge, MA, 2005. 372 pp., illus. $29.95 (ISBN 0674018826 cloth).
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They're not obvious and they're not always cheap.
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CAPE GIRARDEAU, Mo. - It's best not to get between a predator and its prey - especially when they're in the passenger seat of your golf cart. Water plant worker Mitch Walter would offer that bit of advice and bears the scratches of one who speaks from experience.
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By -- Dave Larsen  Men may rule the roost, but women and children typically have run of the house. Consequently, guys are forced to reclaim their private territory in uninhabitable parts of the home.