Jason Brooks

Microsoft recently announced plans to discontinue OneCare, the company’s consumer-oriented, subscription-based anti-malware product. Instead, Microsoft will offer a free-of-charge anti-malware offering called Morro. I know that conventional wisdom, certain government and industry regulations, and Windows’ “Danger, Will Robinson” Security Center alert shield all disagree with me, but I’m not convinced that anti-virus products (as we […]

Earlier this month, Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer made blogosphere headlines by mentioning that Microsoft might look at embracing Webkit, the open-source Web browser rendering engine that powers Apple’s Safari and Google’s Chrome. I think that a Microsoft move to Webkit—not only for the company’s mobile platforms but for the full-size version of Internet Explorer—makes great […]

The BlackBerry Storm 9530 is Research In Motion’s first smartphone to dispense with a physical keyboard in favor of touch-sensitive display. As with other keyboardless devices, such as Apple’s popular iPhone 3G, the absence of a physical keyboard in the Storm means more in the way of display space and less in the way of […]

Andrew Garcia started us off this week with an examination of the WPA cracking talk that Erik Tews and Martin Beck were set to give at the PacSec conference in Tokyo: Cracking the WPA Security Standard. Meanwhile, I took the new LinkedIn Apps Platform for a spin, grabbing many screen shots along the way, and […]

This week, Andrew Garcia zeros in on some of the standards and certifications that can help businesses develop their business continuity plans, and offers up tips on setting up notification processes for implementing these plans: Business Continuity Best Practices How to Develop an Effective and Timely Notification Process I wrote a column about Rackpace’s cloud […]

eWEEK Labs Walk-Through: App Whitelisting from XP to Windows 7 eWEEK Labs Walk-Through: App Whitelisting from XP to Windows 7by Jason Brooks Starting out with SRP I set out to lock down a test desktop running Windows XP Service Pack 3 in such a way that only applications installed in the program files or system […]

A few weeks ago, managed hosting provider Rackspace bolstered its cloud hosting division with a pair of major new acquisitions—cloud storage vendor JungleDisk and virtual server provider Slicehost. I was struck by the announcements Rackspace made that day, but the part of the event that stuck most stubbornly in my head was the old news […]

Recently, eWEEK Labs took at look at the emerging Windows security strategy of application whitelisting: the practice of identifying which applications are allowed to run on a system, rather than those that are not allowed to run. For that package, we focused on add-on products that bring whitelisting capabilities to Windows, but it’s possible to […]

I’m back from sunny Los Angeles, where I attended Microsoft’s Professional Developers Conference 2008 this week. The stars of the show were Windows 7, the follow-on to Microsoft’s little-loved Vista, and Windows Azure, Microsoft’s ambitious new cloud computing service. I wrote up a brief review of the Windows 7 pre-beta build (Number 6801) that Microsoft […]

LOS ANGELES-Microsoft is giving the public its first glimpse of Windows 7, the successor to the company’s unevenly accepted Vista client operating system. The unveiling of Windows 7 at the Professional Developers Conference here Oct. 28 calls to mind the early debut of “Longhorn,” the OS that would become Vista, at the 2003 iteration of […]

This week in Labs, Cameron Sturdevant and Jim Rapoza go green, with analysis, testing and commentary on where the product hype and feel-good notions about green IT meet up with hard numbers in measurement and cost. Check out Cameron’s analysis, How Green IT Measures Up, and his review of Raritan’s Dominion PX, with which you […]

Over the past year or so, I’ve been pretty breathless in my enthusiasm for cloud computing, and my enthusiastic writings around the topic have prompted a pile of reader mail containing many valid concerns over a possibly cloudy IT future. I’ll admit that I’m an unabashed cloud cheerleader–I view it as an IT game-changer with […]