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- Microsoft addresses 9 security vulnerabilities with 4 "Important" bulletins
- Microsoft announced 4 "Important" security bulletins today that cover 9 separate vulnerabilities. Of note were vulnerabilities reported in Windows DNS server and client, and within SQL Server. Briefly, the vulnerabilities involve: Cache poisoning and insufficient socket entropy flaws in Microsoft DNS Server A remote...
- Blog posts 2008-07-08
- A Modest Privacy Proposal
- The Senate Commerce, Science & Transportation Committee is holding a hearing tomorrow on Privacy Implications of Online Advertising. Appearing before the committee headed by long-time Senator Daniel K. Inouye (D-Hawaii) are lawyers for Google and Microsoft, as well as Facebook's chief privacy officer -- and Robert R. Dykes, the chairman...
- Blog posts 2008-07-08
- Microsoft delivers 'important' patches
- Microsoft on Tuesday delivered nine important patches to fix vulnerabilities in SQL Server, Exchange Server, Vista and Windows Server. Among the details, which were previewed last week. CVE-2008-0085: A vulnerability in the way SQL Server manages memory page reuse. An attacker with database operator...
- Blog posts 2008-07-08
- Broadcast or communicate?
- When the Czarist autocracy was overthrown in the 1917 Russian revolution, fundamental changes in Russian society under the new political structure occurred. A fascinating example for me is that while most of the world was busy building out telephone communications infrastructure, the Soviets chose to focus on installing...
- Blog posts 2008-07-08
- Deskless Workers, Useless Services: Microsoft Online Misses the Mark
- I spend a lot of time tracking the deskless souls who inhabit the workworld, the factory workers, nurses and others who spend more time on their feet and less time on their butts than the rest of us. So I was all ears as Stephen Elop, Microsoft's latest Business Division...
- Blog posts 2008-07-08
- ICANN says hijacking attack due to breach at their registrar
- As we commented on, ICANN, the group that manages top-level domain TLD naming systems for the web, recently had several of its domains hijacked by a Turkish hacking group. ICANN has now commented that the hijacking was due to a security breach at the registrar that manages those URLs. From...
- Blog posts 2008-07-08
- ICANN says registrar was hacked
- Two weeks after ICANN's own domains were hijacked by Turkish hackers, the International Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers says it was its registrar -- not ICANN's servers themselves -- that were attacked. On June 26, a number of ICANN sites popped up with this message: ...
- Blog posts 2008-07-08
- They don't all really need laptops, do they?
- I've been getting this question a lot lately from administrators, parents, and taxpayers. The question isn't malicious, but rather comes from folks with a vested interest in making sure that our technology dollars directly benefit students. Does giving teachers laptops directly benefit students? For people who aren't...
- Blog posts 2008-07-08
- SAP's TV budget: more waste
- Regular readers will know that I'm pretty hard on enterprise vendors, especially when I believe they are wasting customers' money. Last month for instance I dinged Oracle for wasting money on English language advertising at Madrid Barajas airport. This morning SAP gets my attention. They are sponsoring...
- Blog posts 2008-07-08
- PlateSpin Launches PowerConvert 7.0
- PlateSpin, a recent acquisition of Novell recently announced PowerConvert 7.0, The company was quick to point out that this is the first product launch since the acquistion. Why would they go to such great lengths to mention that? They want to convince the market that PlatSpin will continue to be...
- Blog posts 2008-07-08
- News to know: Linux; iPhone; Gmail; Insecure antivirus software; SAP
- Notable headlines: Phil Wainewright: SaaS star leaves SAP for Salesforce.com Dennis Howlett: Ticking bombs in enterprise land Garett Rogers: Your Gmail is now a lot more secure Dancho Danchev: Approximately 800 vulnerabilities discovered in antivirus products ...
- Blog posts 2008-07-08
- Live Webcast: Unified Communications Beyond IP Telephony
- No one can doubt the value of Unified Communications. From small and medium businesses to even the largest commercial enterprises, organizations of all sizes are now migrating to IP telephony solutions in record numbers. Some might even call it a communications revolution. But beyond simple voice and...
- Webcasts 2008-07-08
- U.S. Justice Department to be sued
- From Slashdot: tpaudio writes "The ACLU and the EFF are suing the Department of Justice over how the government might be using GPS and location data from cell phones. With over 200 million Americans carrying cell phones, this could be pretty important for setting guidelines. We have already seen...
- Blog posts 2008-07-07
- Ticking bombs in enterprise land
- I believe the enterprise software industry is heading for major problems. It started when I read Francine McKenna where she talks about what she sees as a doomsday scenario for at least one of the Big Four audit businesses. Francine's focus is on questioning the effectiveness of current methods for...
- Blog posts 2008-07-07
- C to be the next browser scripting language... wait, what?
- C to be the next browser scripting language... wait, what?C doesn't have memory corruption flawsC provides access to memory and leaves it as an exercise for the developer to program appropriately.Welcome back, pointer madness and memory leak.We web developers love to trade productivity, garbage collection and code maintainability /...
- Discussion threads 2008-07-07
- C to be the next browser scripting language... wait, what?
- First off, I hope that everyone's fourth of July was as good as mine. There's nothing quite like spending time with family and friends over the holidays to put your work-life relationship into perspective of what's important. In any case, the security news didn't stop for the...
- Blog posts 2008-07-07
- MobileMe officially launching on 09 July
- Apple is planning to launch its MobileMe service on Wednesday 09 July 2008 between 6pm and 12am PT (9pm and 3am ET) according to a post in the Support area of the left sidebar of .Mac, once you've logged in: MobileMe Launch 7/9/2008, 6pm-12am PT ...
- Blog posts 2008-07-07
- UPDATED: Learning how to use "green" and Microsoft in the same sentence
- NOTE: I've updated this post to include another link with tips on other Microsoft technologies that can contribute to your company's green credentials as well as the link for the Imagine Cup winners. It being the week of Microsoft's annual big-deal partner conference and all, I thought...
- Blog posts 2008-07-07
- SIMORE dual SIM converter smartchip
- Ever wanted to put two SIM cards into your GSM/3G phone so you can have two phone numbers or separate voice and data accounts? Now you can. Read the original article and watch a video here: FrankenBerry, It's Alive! by Jason Perlow
- Image galleries 2008-07-07
- $1 Million prize offered for cracking an encryption algorithm
- $1 Million prize offered for cracking an encryption algorithmSchneier thought the sameIf you read Bruce Schneier's history on his website, he claim to have discovered the same revelation. He says he used to believe that if he found the perfect encryption, the world would be secure. He later...
- Discussion threads 2008-07-07
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