A person who logs into a network or service that does not have a user account. Guests are given a default set of privileges until they officially register with the service. See guest account, guest privileges and user account. See also guest operating system.
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- Is the enterprise ready for cloud computing?
- Guest post: This is a post by Barry X Lynn, CEO of 3Tera, in response to a discussion about whether cloud computing is industrial strength. Lynn can be found on the 3Tera blog. There have been multiple white papers and articles written on the topic -...
- Blog posts 2008-08-19
- DEFCON 16: List of tools and stuff released
- Guest editorial by Rob Fuller DEFCON, the 9000+ attendee hacker conference in Vegas has become a sort of hydra conference. It has become more like a global fair than what most people think of conferences; even the badge is highly...
- Blog posts 2008-08-18
- Security vs. convenience: Apple chooses poorly
- Guest post by Oliver Day My PowerBook is in the third year of its life and has begun falling apart on a regular basis. I've had the laptop in for repair at least five times this year alone. Every time I bring my laptop...
- Blog posts 2008-08-18
- The biggest open source threat to Microsoft
- The biggest open source threat to MicrosoftDid he.......no...False alarm. He didn't buy a Laptop. Never mind. ;)What makes it different from Wine then?or Mono for that matter? I had worked on Win-OS2, which is a Windows 3 inside OS/2, during OS/2's heydays. It failed miserably even with IBM's...
- Discussion threads 2008-08-15
- Measuring (not so) recent BIND nameserver patching
- Guest editorial by Derek Callaway This post is meant to provide an approximation of BIND nameserver updates that occurred during the past month, most likely in response to Dan Kaminsky's DNS cache poisoning vulnerability. I conducted this research because I was curious as to how widely BIND...
- Blog posts 2008-08-14
- Campaign 08: H1-B questions for candidates
- Campaign 08: H1-B questions for candidatesThis one gets me...[i]Will you seek to increase the H-1B cap so that employers can hire tech workers who are in low supply and high demand in the U.S.?[/i]Mr. Meltzer forgot a word [i]junior[/i], as in [i]junior tech workers[/i]. There is a shortage of...
- Discussion threads 2008-08-13
- Campaign 08: H1-B questions for candidates
- Robert Meltzer, CEO of VisaNow offers this guest blog post on the questions we should be asking the candidates on the ever-contentious H1-B issue. Consistently throughout U.S. history, immigration has been a divisive topic. Cultural biases, misconceptions, racism and fear continue to influence both opponents and...
- Blog posts 2008-08-13
- Virtual Machine Software Announcements - Why Now?
- Virtual Machine Software Announcements - Why Now?Virtual machine worthless.http://www.theinquirer.net/gb/inquirer/news/2008/08/12/vmware-update-bombedUnless you are running two different OS', why would you run a virtual machine? My Windows and Linux machines multi-task just fine with only one instance of the OS loaded. Especially as cheap as hardware is today, VM's simply add a layer...
- Discussion threads 2008-08-13
- Saying Farewell
- Saying FarewellRE: FarewellWell I just wanted to say that the Zero day blog wont be the same - you had a very no bs attitude when blogging about issues and that was awesome. Reading your blogs was a great source of security inforation for me. Good luck man and hopefully...
- Discussion threads 2008-08-11
- Saying Farewell
- It's been a great handful of months here at ZDNet, but I'm deciding to say goodbye to the blogging scene. I'm already really busy with my primary job, and at this point I want to slow the work load down a good deal and just enjoy life. I'd like to...
- Blog posts 2008-08-11
- Black Hat Las Vegas Day 2
- Black Hat Las Vegas Day 2Dowd and SotirovYou mention Dowd and Sotirov's talk in passing. I'm intensely curious to read your take on their presentation when you get an opportunity to review their stuff. Is it on your blogging agenda?GreatSounds like lots of fun. Nice update. Don't know how you...
- Discussion threads 2008-08-09
- Black Hat Las Vegas Day 2
- Again, sorry for the late updates. Vegas is the kind of place that demands a lot of a person. Too many parties make it difficult to find time to blog on the conference. Pictures of the even are a bit sparse, due to consistently forgetting to bring my camera, but...
- Blog posts 2008-08-09
- Windows Fiji: a world class failure
- Before I get blasted by the uber-nerds, I'll tell you now. I've been playing with Windows 7 (6519) for a while, and Fiji, the new Windows Media Center TV Pack supposedly for Windows 7 for Windows Vista (ta, MJ) for a good few days. ...
- Blog posts 2008-08-09
- The social media corporate identity crisis
- The recent "hijacking" of the ExxonMobil brand for Twitter use made a whoosh as the news traveled around the socialsphere. It also brought into view a lot of questions around brand validity and responsibility in terms of social networking. Joel Postman, principal of Socialized, authored this guest piece on the...
- Blog posts 2008-08-06
- Everywhere I look, I see Clouds
- No, not a comment on the weather in East Yorkshire this 'summer,' but rather a reflection on the recent eruption of content related to Cloud computing. Having taken a long weekend away from the computer, punctuated by occasional iPhone-powered checking of my feeds to sate the addiction, it really did...
- Blog posts 2008-08-05
- Webcast: Mind the Gap: How Using Technology Can Bridge Multiple Generations in the Workplace
- What do Traditionalists, Boomers, Gen Xers and Millenials Gen Y have in common? They are all working side by side in the workplace and the need to balance the generational differences is at its greatest ever. This diversity brings many advantages, from life experience and polished expertise...
- Webcasts 2008-08-05
- Security is everyone's domain
- Guest editorial by George Stathakopoulos In the first half of 2008, Microsoft Corp. released its latest Security Intelligence Report. One of the most interesting statistics involved the results from Microsoft's Malicious Software Removal Tool MSRT. Each second Tuesday of every month, the tool...
- Blog posts 2008-08-04
- The empty debate over open source security
- Guest editorial by Roger Thornton Last week, Fortify published a study on adoption of security best-practices within the Open Source community. Given mounting risk posed by extensive use of Open Source technologies within business and government IT, we were gratified to see the passionate discussions that followed....
- Blog posts 2008-08-01
- New version of Centre open source SIS released
- Although I'm happy as a clam with my current student information system, the idea of an open source solution remains attractive. The Miller Group has updated the open source Centre SIS also available in the OpenSUSE server education product. According to the Miller Group website, version...
- Blog posts 2008-08-01
- Desktop virtualization - where should the anti-virus run?
- Desktop virtualization - where should the anti-virus run?Anti-Virus Companies should ...alter their licensing schemes for these situations - 1 license for 1 physical unit - maybe at a slightly higher cost ...JMHOLudoOn the OS with the most user interaction ...Since the host OS will receive little interaction from 'typical' users...
- Discussion threads 2008-08-01
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