Monthly Archives: January 2004
Security Maven Calls for Internet Disease Control Agency
SEATTLE—The dominance of Windows in the marketplace continues to represent a threat to the safety and security of the Internet and is a problem...
Abridean Enhances Provisioning Tool
End-user management provider Abridean Inc. next week will try to set itself apart from a crowded field of players with the latest release of...
New Portable Memory Format Set For Launch
A consortium of consumer electronics manufacturers next week will unveil a format for memory cards that will be smaller than Secure Digital (SD) cards.The...
IBM Fits NAS Gateway With POWER Chips
IBM this week introduced a new storage product to zip files across enterprise networks.The new IBM TotalStorage NAS Gateway 500 system is a big...
Emulex Unveils First 4Gbps Storage Switch
Emulex Corp. this week announced its 4Gbps InSpeed SOC (Switch-On-a-Chip) 422 Fibre Channel embedded storage switch. The mSOC 422 provides 22 ports of connectivity...
ADIC Announces iSCSI Support
ADIC last week said its Scalar 24 and 100 libraries are now iSCSI-enabled. This support will allow IT managers to increase back-up performance by...
MyDoom Virus, Kazaa and the Dangers of Peer-to-Peer
This past November, in PC Magazines regular "Security Watch" column, we alerted readers to the dangers of using Kazaa, Morpheus, Grokster and other Napster-like...
Open-Source Guru Perens Denounces SCO Denial-of-Service Threats
Along with this weeks arrival of the MyDoom worm came its threat of distributed denial-of-service attacks against Unix vendor The SCO Group of Lindon,...
MyDoom Variant Blocks Fixes, Targets Microsoft
A variant of the MyDoom worm discovered on Wednesday does more than launch a denial-of-service attack; it also locks out infected users from contacting...
UN: Managing Peace Through Infrastructure
Jason Mayordomo has a tough assignment. A technology manager with the united nations peacekeeping force in Sierra Leone, he has to make sure information...