Monthly Archives: October 2006
Microsoft: IE 7 Is AJAX-Ready
BOSTON—Although Microsofts Internet Explorer team has just shipped Version 7 of the browser, it is already working on IE 8—or should that be "IE...
Wi-Fi Exploits Coming to Metasploit
The Metasploit Project plans to add 802.11 (Wi-Fi) exploits to a new version of its point-and-click attack tool, a move that simplifies the way...
Oracles Support for Red Hat Linux Raises Questions
SAN FRANCISCO—While Oracle is pitching its support for Red Hat Linux as a way to broaden the market for Linux adoption—and indeed that may...
Championing True Equal Access
With its September release of WAI-ARIA, the Web Accessibility Initiative road map for Accessible Rich Internet Applications, the World Wide Web Consortium sends developers...
LSI Logic to Acquire StoreAge Networking Technologies for $50M
Data storage chip and software maker LSI Logic announced late on Oct. 25 that it has acquired Israeli firm StoreAge Networking Technologies, in a...
Researchers Criticize Security of Windows Mobile
A new research report contends that by failing to offer onboard encryption for e-mail files stored on Windows Mobile devices, Microsoft may be putting...
Rutkowska: Anti-Virus Software Is Ineffective
Earlier this year, stealth malware researcher Joanna Rutkowska created a stir at the Black Hat Briefings when she demonstrated a way to infect Windows...
Argh! Google Users Want to Be Pirates for Halloween
"If you don't know Keira Knightley, she's basically a slightly more mannish version of Orlando Bloom." -- askaninja.comFurther reinforcing the notion that we're all...
Fedora Core 6 Arrives
The Red Hat-sponsored, community-supported Fedora Project announced on Oct. 24 that Fedora Core 6 is now available.
The latest version of this popular Linux distribution...
MIA: Oracle Executives a No-Show at OpenWorld Press Meetings
SAN FRANCISCO—Whats Oracle got to hide? That was my first question on the second official day of Oracle OpenWorld scheduled Oct. 22-26.
I arrived at...