Monthly Archives: November 2005
Rootkit DRM Constitutes Security Malpractice
Sony BMG Music Entertainments use of a rootkit to hide its digital rights management software deep and undetectably within the operating system of users...
Malicious Keyloggers Run Rampant on Net
Keylogging programs are the epitome of online stealth, and theyre also a mushrooming problem on the Internet, where identity and intellectual property thefts are...
Company Takes Internet Address Names Beyond Dot-Com
Technology provider UnifiedRoot, based in Amsterdam, has begun leasing Internet addresses that can end in any word, rather than in .com, .org, .net or...
Autodesk Open-Sources Web Mapping Software
Autodesk Inc. plans to release the full code of MapServer Enterprise, its new Web mapping platform, to open source early next year.
A snapshot of...
Unpatched IE Flaw Is Worse Than Expected
Last week was shortened by the Thanksgiving holiday, and it seemed the malware guys took it off as well. There was not much going...
Services Microsoft Should, Could (and Just Might) Develop
By now, "The Internet Services Disruption" missive from Microsoft Chief Technology Office Ray Ozzie has been dissected ad infinitum. But we have yet to...
NetEx Introduces IP WAN Data Migration
Data transport vendor NetEx has come up with a different way—and more predictable, faster, and cheaper, company executives claim—to migrate large amounts of data...
Black Friday Brightens Retail Outlook
From Apple to Wal-Mart, the first round of results from the hotly anticipated holiday buying season point toward another banner year for consumer electronics...
Sun, Allies Petition to Change FCC VOIP Stance
The governments stance on VOIP is creating uncertainty for many network providers heading into 2006.
Protesting that new federal wiretapping rules will stifle innovation and...
Symantec Shelves Sygate Personal Firewall
Symantec Corp. will discontinue sales and support for customers who bought personal security products from Sygate Inc., which Symantec purchased in October.
Symantec is shelving...