Monthly Archives: September 2007
Federal Agent Indicted for Cyber-Stalking
A special agent for the Department of Commerce is facing up to 10 years in prison and a $250,000 fine for using a Department...
Delist This Security Idea
Everybody loves lists. Magazines love lists; TV shows love lists; Web sites really like lists. But possibly no one loves lists more than security...
Oracle Sees 65 Percent Growth in App Licenses
Oracles revenues for new application licenses jumped 65 percent in the companys first fiscal quarter, driving a 28 percent increase in earnings per share...
Using Licensing Strategies to Deal with Piracy
Selling illegal software is a worldwide, multi-billion dollar business. For software companies, that means coming up with ways to stop piracys negative effects is...
Vista Supports Hybrid Storage Drives, Microsoft Says
Microsoft on Sept. 21 denied claims by hard drive industry executives and analysts that the worlds largest software company isnt providing optimized drivers for...
Daylight-Saving Time Remediation Resource List
Now is the time for IT managers to ensure that daylight-saving time patches made in the spring are still operative on calendaring systems, desktop...
Is Open Source the Best Way to Unlock the Value of IT?
LAS VEGAS—Open source is truly the best way to unlock the value of information technology, Michael Tiemann, president of the Open Source Initiative, said...
Intel Tries the Slow and Steady Approach
SAN FRANCISCO—By the time the 2007 Intel Developer Forum ended here Sept. 20, two things were certain: Intel has no shortage of code names...
Going Undercover in the Slimy World of Phishing
Jason Harbert was a terrible spammer.The research scientist for Cloudmark recently spent weeks monitoring the phishing communitys chat rooms and forums, learned the lingo,...
Google Denies Interest in U.K. Spectrum
Google emphatically denied on Sept. 20 that it is interested in bidding on 3G spectrum that the U.K. may put up for sale. Ofcom,...