Monthly Archives: February 2006
Debian Founder Takes Over LSB Leadership
The Free Standards Group, the non-profit group behind the Linux Standard Base, has announced that Debian Linux founder Ian Murdock will be its new...
Adobe Patches Photoshop, Illustrator Flaws
Web and print publishing software maker Adobe Systems has pushed out security patches to cover a potentially serious code execution flaw in the Adobe...
Blackworm D-Day Turns Out to Be a Dud
While the world held its breath, there were few noticeable effects from the dreaded Blackworm, which began deleting files on infected Windows computers Friday,...
Security Conflict: Auditing the On-Demand Realm
Marc Maiffret is a worried man.
The chief hacking officer and co-founder of eEye Digital Security looks at the rising popularity of hosted Web applications...
Google Enemies List Update
The World Association of Newspapers has made it official: a lot of newspapers hate Google too.Like a lot of people in the news business,...
The Problem with Consensus Computing
Breakthrough technologies invariably require some IT executive somewhere to have the guts to deploy when no one else is seriously doing so.Thats a bold...
Microsoft Seeks to Bridge Web 2.0 and SOA
SAN FRANCISCO—While Microsoft has not yet jumped full-fledged onto the Web 2.0 bandwagon, the company is clearly taking a good look and kicking the...
Security Appliances Aid Compliance
Imperva on Jan. 30 rolled out three new SecureSphere Gateway appliances that help meet regulatory requirements imposed by PCI Data Security Standards, the Health...
Try Some Virtualization, Its Free
VMware in the week of Feb. 6 will roll out the beta release of a free virtualization tool designed to give users a taste...
NimSoft Offers Monitoring of CallManager
To give IT managers using Cisco Systems CallManager IP telephony system a way to ensure compliance with SLAs (service-level agreements), Nimsoft is rolling its...