Scott Berinato

Year 2000 is ending as it began, with a DDoS attack threatening a large part of the Internet and failing security efforts fueling IT fears. The latest distributed denial-of-service attempt was broken up last week in Denmark, where hackers took control of at least 50 zombie servers and were preparing an assault on that countrys […]

Microsoft Corp. Chairman Bill Gates said he believes technology can solve many of the privacy woes caused by the Internet. Gates set out to prove the point at his companys first security summit, SafeNet 2000, here last week. Microsoft is trying to establish some leadership in what it calls the “trust” issues: security and privacy. […]

Its one thing to rush an application to market without thinking about security. Its another to rush a security application to market. But thats whats happened with several personal firewalls—a product category that was a virtual nonentity a year ago but is now standard fare for anyone on a broadband connection, including telecommuters. Personal firewalls […]

PKI technology has en-joyed little acceptance in the enterprise, despite the fact that users are clamoring for more security everywhere. Its a fact not lost on cryptography vendors. One of them, RSA Security Inc., hopes to change the technologys fortunes when it unveils next week new software that attempts to remove two of the major […]

Legally, its called “Microsofts Reply Brief to the Supreme Court of the United States.” But really its Microsoft Corp.s latest objection to the expediting of its antitrust case directly to the Supreme Court. And in this latest in a seemingly never-ending river of briefs, Microsoft not surprisingly states that the Department of Justice is wrong, […]

The United States Department of Justice today urged the Supreme Court to hear the landmark antitrust case against Microsoft Corp. immediately. The high court accepted the case under the Expediting Act of 1903, which allows cases of general public importance to go directly to the highest court in the land instead of slogging through years […]

As expected, and in accordance with normal judicial process, Microsoft Corp. today filed its “Jurisdictional Statement to the United States Supreme Court,” urging the highest court in the land to send the companys antitrust case back to the District of Columbia Court of Appeals. District Judge Thomas Penfield Jackson ruled in June that Microsoft had […]

Having lost its antitrust trial in the U.S. Circuit Court, Microsoft Corp. has shifted its focus to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, where the software developers no-compromise legal stance may have a better chance of paying off. After several months of being bloodied in U.S. District Judge Thomas Penfield […]

For the high-tech industry, it is one of the most profound, precedent-setting documents ever written. In 17 tersely written pages, U.S. District Judge Thomas Penfield Jackson last week ordered Microsoft Corp. to divest into two separate companies, one for operating systems and the other for applications. The harsh remedy will undoubtedly have lasting effects—both positive […]

This is legal masochism. As reported earlier today, still more legal filings next week will precede U.S. District Judge Thomas Penfield Jacksons remedies ruling in the antitrust case against Microsoft Corp. Microsoft on Wednesday filed a lengthy response to the Department of Justices second version of its proposed remedies, at the same time adding another […]