Monthly Archives: March 2007
Turing Award Recipient Discusses IBM, Then and Now
Frances E. Allen, a former math teacher who later went on to become IBMs first female fellow, this week became the first woman to...
Month of PHP Bugs Begins
Security expert Stefan Esser has declared war on vulnerabilities in the PHP core with the "Month of PHP Bugs." PHP is an open-source HTML...
Linux Cluster Startup Secures $3M Funding
Terascala, a startup developing a next-generation Linux storage cluster architecture, announced March 1 that it has secured $3 million in first-round funding from Ascent...
ACLU, Outrage Fill in the Silence at Black Hat RFID Session
After receiving a letter threatening possible patent litigation that caused IOActive to cancel his Feb. 28 Black Hat briefing, IOActive R&D director Chris Paget...
March Madness Expected to Threaten Network Security
March Madness may be a great time for college basketball fans, but it can be a nightmare for enterprises when it comes to network...
Marketing By Security Research
Every time Microsoft releases "the most secure version of Windows yet," as they all have been so far, they set themselves up to look...
Lenovo to Recall Batteries Used in Some ThinkPad Notebooks
Lenovo Group is voluntarily recalling about 200,000 ThinkPad notebook battery packs that contain faulty Sanyo Electronic lithium-ion batteries, the company announced on March 1.
Lenovo,...
PCI Security Lacks Teeth
Earlier this week, MasterCard officially (well, sort of officially) confirmed that retail chain TJX was not in compliance with Payment Card Industry rules at...
Only Your Boss Hates March Madness
Can hardly wait the two weeks until March Madness kicks off? Your boss can.According to Websense, a San Diego based computer security company, the...