Matthew Broersma

Cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks have become one of the better-known Web security vulnerabilities over the past four years, but they are still easy to carry out on large sites handling sensitive information, such as major banks, as a U.K. researcher recently demonstrated. They make phishing attacks—which attempt to swipe user login information—harder to spot, even […]

The worlds top executives now cite security as the most critical aspect of their companies networks, but nearly four in five still click on e-mail attachments from strangers, according to a new survey from the Economist Intelligence Unit. The AT&T-backed survey was carried out by the business information arm of the Economist Group, publisher of […]

Japans NTT DoCoMo Inc. on Tuesday formally launched the N900iL, a handset combining 3G and IP telephony capability, the first such phone to appear from a major network operator. The handset, demonstrated by executives at the Tokyo launch, is nearly identical to NECs N900i, designed for FOMA, DoCoMos implementation of the WCDMA (Wideband Code Division […]

Alternative browser makers say they are seeing a huge and sustained boost in downloads spurred by the most recent Internet Explorer security concerns, but industry observers caution that switching browsers isnt necessarily a panacea. While the high-profile attacks of the past two weeks have affected only IE on Windows, other browsers already or could soon […]

Recent moves by such companies as Sun Microsystems and Computer Associates to dip their toes into the world of open source have reawakened interest in how open-source software licenses work, and what benefits they bring to software companies—if any. When companies such as Sun talk about making important products open source, what theyre really interested […]

Blogging pioneer Dave Winer has shut down the Weblogs of about 3,000 users on weblogs.com, one of the first blogging sites. Winer is a respected figure in Web development circles and was a driving force in the emergence of blogging and Web syndication; last year he took up a fellowship at the Berkman Center for […]

LONDON—Enterprise voice-over-IP systems can be made reliable and secure, but to do it, many IT managers will have to do a lot more than theyre doing now, said security experts at this weeks VON Europe conference here. Executives from Alcatel, Hewlett-Packard Co., Cisco Systems Inc. and security firm Codenomicon Ltd. agreed that voice running on […]

LONDON—Enterprise might already be using voice over wireless LAN, but the technology is still far from perfect, admitted networking and telecom executives at this weeks VON Europe conference here. Even the most bullish said that a host of problems, from security to ease-of-use, need to be ironed out before wireless VOIP (voice over IP) can […]

LONDON—Traditional telecommunications providers, tied to their lucrative fixed voice services, are in danger of being swamped by innovative technology emerging from the fast-paced voice-over-IP sector, an analyst said Tuesday at the VON Europe conference here. Arguing that fragmentation is now the name of the game for telecom services, James Enck, global telecom strategist with Daiwa […]

Microsoft has been granted a U.S. patent on using short, long or double clicks on the same button to launch different applications—though only on “limited resource computing devices” such as PDAs or mobile phones. Now, U.S. companies that use such a variety of clicks on one button to launch separate software functions will have to […]

Symantec has identified the first virus that successfully infects 64-bit Windows executables, posing the first threat to an operating system that industry observers say is often left without antivirus protection. W64.Rugrat.3344 is a proof-of-concept virus that infects 64-bit executable files on Windows 64-Bit Edition running on Itanium processors, Symantec Corp. said Thursday. It doesnt require […]

Sun Microsystems has completed the design of its next-generation UltraSPARC processor, code-named Niagara, a move that industry observers say puts Sun on track for delivering the chip in late 2005 or early 2006. Niagara is considered crucial for keeping Sun in the processor market. The server maker confirmed that Niagara taped out Tuesday, meaning the […]