Monthly Archives: May 2003
DOJ Will Defend Microsoft Settlement in Court
The Department of Justice will defend its antitrust settlement with Microsoft Corp. in court this fall, when two states and two IT trade groups...
Weekly Spyware Alert: KeenValue
Intruder: KeenValueDescription:KeenValue is advertising software that tracks:
Web sites/pages viewed
The amount of time spent at some Web sites
Response to the Advertisements displayed
Standard web log information...
Lipner Steps Down as Head of MSRC
Steve Lipner, the head of Microsoft Corp.s Security Response Center, is stepping down to take a new job at the company. Kevin Kean, a...
mod_rewrite Rules To Stop Worms & Web Attacks
Thanks to Jonas Eckerman (http://www.truls.org/) for answering my request in a recent column for input rules for the Apache mod_rewrite module to make it...
BindView Monitors Compliance
BindView Corp. is unveiling a new solution that will help security specialists monitor their companies compliance with the ever-growing array of federal and state...
Why Munich Dumped Microsoft for Linux
Microsoft on Wednesday lost its bid to keep the German city of Munich a Windows customer.The Munich City Council on Wednesday announced that it...
The Latest Net Scam—Modem Hijacking
Our feature on the world of spyware didnt scare you? This will. PCs the world over are being hit by a new breed of...
HP Expands Partnership With VMware
Hewlett-Packard Co. is offering a complete line of virtual machine capabilities from VMware Inc. in its line of Intel-based hardware, software and services.HP, of...
SCO Turns a Profit, Renews Threat Against IBM
The SCO Group on Wednesday again threatened to revoke IBMs legal license to sell AIX, its Unix operating system, on June 14 if Big...
Sun Revises Java Community Process
With the JavaOne Java developers conference just around the corner in June, Sun Microsystems Inc. is moving to further empower and unite the Java...