Monthly Archives: February 2005
HPs Virus Throttle Aims to Halt Worms Spread
Hewlett-Pachard Co. on Friday announced the release of its long-awaited Virus Throttle software, a small application designed to halt the spread of worms and...
Crossroads Seeks Niche with DataMover
In an effort to secure a niche in the ever-changing storage world, embattled bridging and routing vendor Crossroads Systems Inc. has developed an intelligent...
Attendees Mean Business at LinuxWorld
BOSTON—At the OSDL Enterprise Linux Summit a few weeks ago in Burlingame, Calif., the focus was on the theory of taking Linux into the...
U.S. Mobile Deployments Lag Behind Asia, Europe
American consumers face no shortage of mobile technologies, but theyre still a long way from the level of service enjoyed by consumers in many...
Microsoft to Make MSN Messenger Fixes Mandatory
Microsoft Corp. on Friday lashed out at two security research firms for publishing proof-of-concept exploit code for MSN Messenger hours after Microsoft released security...
IBM DB2 Flaws Found
Several flaws have been discovered in IBMs DB2 Universal Database that can be exploited to cause DoS attacks, to reveal sensitive information, to read...
Muni Wi-Fi: Down from the Clouds, onto the Streets
In response to our recent editorials on the battle for municipal Wi-Fi, reader Evan Wilner, a former public advocate for the state of Delaware,...
Tower Records Tunes Its Site
Controlling how people listen to a song on a CD is as easy as humming compared with controlling how 70,000 people every day navigate...
Firefox Gains Yahoo Toolbar Support
Mozilla Firefox is gaining more search-engine supporters as Yahoo Inc. launches a version of its toolbar for the open-source Web browser.Starting Thursday, Yahoo will...
Aggregated Mobile Access Services Address Hot-Spot Security
Evil Twin, the phishing scheme that threatens users of Wi-Fi hot spots, has been well-known in the industry for as long as two years,...