Monthly Archives: April 2004
PCI SIG Releases Version 3.0 of PCI Standard
The PCI Special Interest Group (PCI SIG) quietly released the third generation of the PCI standard this week, which removes support for the oldest...
Compromise Likely of Serious Windows SSL Vulnerability
Security experts are monitoring what appears to be a coordinated effort to exploit a known vulnerability in the Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) implementation in...
Lindows Expands with Digital Audio, Photo Apps
SAN DIEGO—Lindows Inc., best known for its Linux operating system in a legal tug-of-war with Microsoft Corp., is moving into the digital audio and...
Problems in Microsoft MBS Land
Microsofts hefty legal expenses arent its only financial challenge. If you peek behind the Redmond earnings curtain, it quickly becomes apparent that all is...
Osama Spam Onslaught Leads to Trojan
A persistent new spam campaign that purports to show recipients pictures of Osama bin Laden being captured is in fact a ruse that could...
IBM Invests in Eclipses Future with Grants, Contests
Despite having spun out the Eclipse consortium into an independent Eclipse Foundation, IBM Corp. continues to invest substantially in the organization and its namesake...
Kattoon: April 26, 2004
Read this weeks Spencer column.
Hitachi 7K400 400GB Deskstar Hard Drive
Before we launch into the specs and features of the new Hitachi 400GB hard drive, we need to point out a few things. Hitachi...
Wait on Oracle 10g Upgrade
Its hard not to agree with Dr. DBA when hes so fired up with Oracle Database 10g, telling people the specific time to upgrade...
New Fight to Protect Exploited Children Online
The International Centre for Missing & Exploited Children launched a new campaign against online child pornography Thursday. The initiative, backed by a $1 million...