Monthly Archives: December 2007
Adobe Ships ‘Highly Critical’ Flash Player Patch
Adobe Systems has shipped an extremely critical patch to correct at least nine cross-platform vulnerabilities in its ubiquitous Flash Player software.The APSB07-20 update, available...
Idaho Power Gets SarbOx Compliance
I had the pleasure of speaking with Alex Tatistcheff, information security manager for Idaho Power, on Dec. 12 about his implementation and use of...
Linux Networking Cookbook: Tasty Linux Recipes
Even before I picked up Unix, I worked on networks. While networking has gotten simpler, it's almost all TCP/IP now instead of Arcnet, Token-Ring...
Visualize Social Networks with IBM’s Atlas
Determined to lead the market in creating social networking tools for the enterprise, IBM introduced a new set of social networking visualization and analysis...
Unpatched Google Toolbar Flaw Presents ID Theft Risk
A dialog spoofing vulnerability in the popular Google Toolbar could be exploited by malicious hackers to execute malicious files or launch identity theft attacks,...
Apple Playing Japan Rivals Off for iPhone
TOKYO (Reuters)—Apple Inc is playing mobile operators NTT DoCoMo Inc and Softbank Corp against one another on selling the iPhone in Japan, where it...
Symantec Preps Norton 360 Beta
Symantec is prepping the launch of the beta version of the next Norton 360, and is arming it with a host of new features...
Emcore to Buy Telecom Assets of Intels Optical Platform Unit
Dec 18 (Reuters)—Semiconductor products maker Emcore Corp said it would buy the telecom-related portion of Intel Corps optical platform division for $85 million to...
Senate Pulls Telco Immunity Vote
After hours of impassioned debate, the Senate decided late Dec. 17 to delay a vote on granting telecoms immunity for their alleged participation in...
Sprint Nextel Names New CEO
NEW YORK (Reuters)-Sprint Nextel Corp named Embarq Corp CEO Dan Hesse as its new president and chief executive on Tuesday, hoping the telecom veteran...