Monthly Archives: March 2003
Thwarting the Zombies
Eighteen thousand computers tied together in less than 24 hours; a virtual army of machines, standing ready to do the will of their new...
When Too Many Rights Make a Wrong
On March 14, a 20-year-old student at the University of Texas at Austin was charged by federal authorities in connection with an attack at...
AppScan Extends Developer Access
A new package from Sanctum, released in March, will help active server pages .Net development teams catch security problems during the development process. AppScan...
eTrust Antivirus Expands Security Scope
Computer Associates International Inc.s eTrust Antivirus has loaded up with new features and increased its scope of coverage—from PDAs to network gateway systems—making it...
Incoming: Information Overload—In Real Time
The war in Iraq may be the most reported, most difficult-to-follow war in history. If previous wars were marked by limited news sources reporting...
Third-Party Apps Tackle Web Services Reliability
As Web services become bigger pieces of an organizations technology infrastructure, the same kind of discipline that keeps core database servers and directory servers...
Snapshot: Camino Is Friendlier by Design
As many Mozilla users know, the Mozilla Organization states that the open-source browser is a developers tool, not an end-user application. Because of this,...
Sun ONE Web Services Aim to Ease Java Development
Sun Microsystems Inc. has announced a series of technologies and initiatives to help developers build applications and Web services more effectively and enjoy a...
NetScalers Flagship Web Content Manager Scales Up
NetScaler Inc.s latest Layer 7 appliance, the Secure Application Switch Request Switch 9800, harnesses on-board SSL acceleration and global load balancing to provide large-scale...
Red Hat 9 Forces Stability Gamble
"Release early and often" is an open-source mantra, but it has anything but a calming effect on enterprise IT administrators more concerned with maintaining...