Monthly Archives: June 2005
New Weapons Forged to Fight Spam
New hosted services and appliances are becoming available to give enterprises more options in their continuing battle against spam.
Managed e-mail service provider The Electric...
J2EE Is Becoming a Completely Open-Source Play
Once upon a time, and it wasnt that long ago, the Java development business revolved around selling Java 2 Enterprise Edition servers.
That was then....
Grokster Ruling Begins the Good Fight
Todays Supreme Court ruling is a step toward something Ive been predicting for many years: the filtering of Internet sites and content by some...
IBM Has Two Fastest Supercomputers
IBM dominated the Top500 list of the worlds fastest computers, released in June at the International Supercomputing Conference.
IBMs Blue Gene supercomputers ranked first and...
Fresh Batch of Bagles Seeding Botnets
Virus researchers are raising the alarm over a new offshoot of the Bagle worm that is attempting to hijack computers for use in botnets.
The...
Microsoft Ally AVIcode Zeros In on Autonomics
BALTIMORE—Microsoft has been moving to try to match, if not surpass, IBM in the area of autonomic computing through its DSI (Dynamic Systems Initiative),...
UK Phishers Caught, Packed Away
Authorities in the UK have sentenced two men to prison for their role in a phishing scam, according to a statement from the UKs...
UConn Finds Rootkit in Hacked Server
The University of Connecticut has detected a rootkit on one of its servers, almost two years after the stealth program was placed there by...
CA Scoops Up Desktop Firewall Maker Tiny Software
Continuing its security-technology buying spree, Computer Associates on Monday announced that it is buying Tiny Software, a desktop firewall software maker, for an undisclosed...
Cooperation Is Key for P2P, Media
In the future, when the grey-haired historians of Geekdom choose the moment when the tech business was forced to grow up, chances are good...