Monthly Archives: August 2001
Allchin: Microsoft Sticking to Its Guns
If Microsoft Corp.s enthusiasm to bundle new technologies into Windows XP was dampened last week by the U.S. Court of Appeals, the company isnt...
Computer Sciences Snags NSA Contract
Computer Sciences Corp. was scrambling to up the value of a newly won, multibillion-dollar federal contract late last week, a day after the contracts...
Stop, Thief!
What do the U.S. State Department, the British military and the FBI have in common? Each of these security-centric organizations has recently lost laptops...
Security Must Be Baked In, Not Painted On
A wave of hysteria, a brief surge in traffic, a burst of defacements—by now, its a familiar story. The most recent chapter, of course,...
The Buzz: August 6, 2001
Support for Russian GrowsThe Russian software developer arrested last month by the FBI for allegedly violating the controversial U.S. Digital Millennium Copyright Act is...
Operator No. 9: August 6, 2001
Were All Gonna Die!CEOs of data security companies must patiently pray that — yes! — this will be the week that some freaky, out-of-...
Code Red: Guard Your Apps
As the Internet community scrambled to prepare for the re-emergence of the Code Red worm last week, security experts said the worm presages more...
A Net Unprotected
Security experts are warning that the problems spawned by the malicious computer program Code Red may be dwarfed by the pain that lies ahead....
Fast Breaks Newsfront: August 6, 2001
Grid PowerIBM is working to make supercomputing resources available to anyone through its work on grid computing, which will deliver computing power much like...
Duo Moves to Mobilize Applications
According to Oracle Corp. and Sybase Inc., a corporate application is only as good as a mobile employees ability to access it.While Sybase is...