Jim Rapoza

Network administrators have been scrambling on the recent news about the serious security vulnerability in SNMP, but port scanners have proved ill-equipped for the task of full SNMP disclosure. eWeek Labs has tested a free tool from the SANS Institute that makes it much easier and faster to find rogue SNMP. SNMPing, available for download […]

When I first reviewed Lockstep Systems WebAgain, I found it to be a useful, inexpensive tool for preventing defacements of Web site content, albeit a tool with a few major weaknesses. Now, more than 18 months later, WebAgain 2.5 addresses most of those weaknesses while remaining useful and inexpensive—although at $995, it costs a bit […]

Network administrators have been scrambling on the recent news about the serious security vulnerability in SNMP, but port scanners have proven ill-equipped for the task of full SNMP disclosure. eWEEK Labs has tested a free tool from the SANS Institute that makes it much easier and faster to find rogue SNMP. SNMPing is a simple […]

In the tech world, as in real life, debates can quickly polarize. Macs vs. Windows; Linux vs. Windows; free exchange of information vs. intellectual property; open source vs. commercial software. Well, at least in the final two areas, a recent proposal may finally offer a much-needed middle-ground option. Stanford professor Lawrence Lessig, one of the […]

Curse those big software vendors. Now theyre out to take over the world by rigging the standards for Web services so that they lock developers into proprietary languages and keep the little guys out of the lucrative Web services market. At least thats what some in the developer community say. But the companies they are […]

BizTalk Server—one of the first and most important products in .Net—now makes it easier for companies to create business processes and connect to business partners. Microsoft Corp.s BizTalk Server 2002, released last week, is a worthy upgrade to the previous version of the server, which earned an eWeek Labs Analysts Choice designation. The server is […]

Walking into LinuxWorld in New York this year, I immediately felt that something wasnt the same. The show was smaller, but, then again, every show the last year has been smaller. Then it hit me: The big Linux package vendors such as Red Hat werent immediately visible. They were there, of course–vendors such as Caldera, […]

Wondering which applications in your company had security problems? And just how many problems each had? Wouldnt it be good to have a comprehensive list of all this information? If you said yes, the U.S. government agrees with you. The National Infrastructure Protection Center recently released a comprehensive list of all reported security vulnerabilities, worms, […]

Ektron Inc., maker of Empower, one of the best low-end content management systems, has created a very usable and affordable application: the even-lower-end CMS100 1.7, which takes content management to the commodity level. CMS100 (formerly called Empower Express), which shipped earlier this month, lacks features such as workflow or check-in/check-out, but it does include core […]

E-mail viruses such as Badtrans and Kournikova rely on a variety of potential security holes within Microsofts Outlook client, and its difficult for administrators to know if theyve patched every hole. Those looking for a way to find possible vulnerabilities in their Outlook clients can turn to a free set of tests from GFI (www.gfi.com/emailsecuritytest). […]

Last year, I wrote a column about the loss of the Internets collective memory, especially when it came to older Usenet postings. At the time that Google.com purchased Deja.coms Usenet archive, it was searchable only to early 1999. Well, it took a little while, but Google has done right by Usenet, not only in restoring […]

Although face recognition systems have received most of the attention since the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, Bostons Logan International Airport is trying out a different type of verification system to detect passengers and workers who arent what they seem to be. Logan has begun implementing a trial of Imaging Automations BorderGuard in selected areas of […]