Monthly Archives: October 2007
FireScope Web Monitoring Gets Insightful
FireScope customers are getting a new set of binoculars to use to get a clearer view into their security.The company, which specializes in business...
Upfront – 6
Girls Cant Do PhysicsThis story actually starts on a day when my older daughter and I walked across the sun-filled lawn at the University...
Qwest Raises the Security Bar For ISPs
Just over a year ago I wrote a column about Trend Micros ICSS (InterCloud Security Service). Its a service to assist ISPs in detecting...
Katt Tests Web 2.0 Waters
"There must be something to this Web 2.0 stuff," quoth the Kitty as he sorted through this weeks collation of tips and rumors. The...
Microsoft Pushes Secure, Quality Code
Microsoft is continuing its thrust to help developers write more secure and better quality code.The Redmond, Wash., software company is putting new code analysis...
The Best Linux System Repair Distribution Gets Better
If theres a better system repair kit than the Gentoo-based SystemRescueCD Linux distribution, we havent seen it yet.
The new 0.4 version of SystemRescueCd was...
Talking Chalk (and Xen Virtualization) with Sun
Today I attended a Sun Microsystems Chalk Talk on the company's virtualization plans. The talk centered on two upcoming products from Sun, which ride...
Transportation Authority of Marin Still Hacked Up
The Transportation Authority of Marin Web site was hacked to link to porn sites, causing the Federal agency that oversees .gov domains to temporarily...
eWEEK Labs Walk-through: Windows Vista Service Pack 1 Beta
eWEEK Labs Walk-through: Windows Vista Service Pack 1 Beta
The service pack we tested tipped the scales at 687MB and required a generous 7GB of...
Apple Fixes QuickTime for Windows Glitch
Attackers can slip past Windows system defenses due to a flaw in the way Apples QuickTime for Windows handles URLs in the "qtnext" field...