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WASHINGTON — The FBI and the SANS Institute unveiled their assessment of the top 20 Internet security vulnerabilities for 2001. Most of the hacks exploit time-honored security holes. “All are old vulnerabilities,” said SANS Director Alan Paller. “Theyre being attacked constantly.” Security experts widely agree that the holes arent being effectively patched because system administrators […]

RadioFrame Networks is stepping into a niche where others have failed before. Backed by heavy hitters including telecom tycoon Craig McCaw and venture capital firm Ignition, RadioFrame hopes to help wireless operators extend coverage inside buildings, particularly enterprise offices. Last year, operators spent $160 million trying to improve coverage indoors, said Mark Anderson, RadioFrames vice […]

IBM Monday rolled out a new version of the Informix Dynamic Server, which should help ease some of the fears of Informix Software database users that Big Blue would abandon them after buying the company for $1 billion in April. Users have been concerned that IBM, of Armonk, N.Y., would discontinue Informixs product line and […]

CHICAGO — Employee Relationship Management will be the hottest enterprise software application in the next decade, predicted Siebel Systems Chairman and CEO Tom Siebel. Siebel spent much of his nearly two-hour Siebel Worldwide User Week keynote address here extolling the virtues of ERM and showing off the companys ERM offering, which it spent two years […]

Sprints name has been floated as an unexpected suitor for Exodus Communications, a combination that makes sense in a world where service providers aim to compete with IBM in the managed services arena. In addition to its wireless and wireline telephone services divisions, Sprint manages one of the largest Internet backbones and owns its own […]

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Hewlett-Packard is offering a software development kit for its LaserJet printers based on Chai, its Java-lookalike embedded system virtual machine. The software kit is expected to give application writers a chance to generate applications for printers as if they were another node on the network. A remote printing application, for example, might give a business […]

Intel is set to announce on Monday, Oct. 1, what it claims is the fastest chip designed for mobile PCs, along with 11 other new processors designed for small and portable devices. The star of the launch is a version of the Pentium III Processor-M that runs at 1.2 gigahertz – faster than many desktop […]

WASHINGTON – Americas computer infrastructure is highly vulnerable to attack and will likely be targeted in the near future, a panel of security experts told Congress. Leading experts painted a grim picture of the ability of Americas critical infrastructure to withstand direct and sustained electronic attacks, in a hearing of the House Subcommittee on Government […]

Thor Technologies was about as close to the destruction that enveloped lower Manhattan on Sept. 11 as any company whose workers are all still alive to talk about it. Suite 8707, as in the 87th floor in Tower 1 of the World Trade Center, belonged to the 45-member staff of Thor, a 10-year-old security software […]