Monthly Archives: September 2004
Venezuela Leads in E-Voting
Venezuela held a national referendum last month in which the incumbent president, Hugo Chavez, defeated an attempt by the opposition to oust him from...
Spammers Skirt IP Authentication Attempts
As enterprises continue to register Sender Protection Framework records, hoping to thwart spam and phishing attacks, spammers are upping the ante in the war...
Intel, AMD Pack Dual Processing Cores on Single Chip
Intel Corp. and Advanced Micro Devices Inc. are revving up for what they see as the next big step in the evolution of x86...
Suns Java Workstations Tap Opteron
Sun Microsystems Inc.s latest high-end workstation, the Sun Java Workstation, offers powerful graphics and expandability, making it an ideal desktop system for todays engineers...
Logitech Builds a Better Mouse
The arms race—or, should I say, the fingers race—continues. For all who have struggled to free their pointing devices from the surly bonds of...
Common Criteria Finds Common Ground
Functionally, a trusted operating system is defined primarily by its support of mandatory access controls. However, at many of the sites where trusted operating...
Foundstone Finds Vulnerabilities
Version 4.0 of Foundstone Inc.s namesake vulnerability scanner and reporting tool offers refined role-based administration, new ways to handle remediation tickets and new ways...
The Wireless Office: Getting It Right
Though the mainstream corporate world is dotted with wireless networks, in general its adoption rate of wireless here has lagged behind that of other...
Apache Rejects Sender ID
The open-source Apache web server will not support the proposed anti-spam standard Sender ID from Microsoft Corp. The Apache Software Foundation in a letter...
Office of Management and Budget Offers Security Guidance
The Office of Management and Budget last week released a security and privacy how-to guide to government agencies. The administration released the Federal Enterprise...