Archive for May, 2002
ZDNet: Study: Open Source Poses Security Risks
Friday, May 31st, 2002Anatomy of a Technology Selection
Friday, May 31st, 2002Anatomy of a Technology Selection ” Subsequently, after several months of detail work and considerable expense, Dell Computer abandoned this Enterprise Resource Planning program when they realized that it was inappropriate in their environment. The issues were not directly related to the application architecture, but rather to the implications of running a dynamic company with a distributed management philosophy. “
Microsoft software expelled by top college
Thursday, May 30th, 2002vnunet:
Microsoft software expelled by top college
Newnham women’s college, Cambridge, has banned Microsoft Outlook and Outlook Express because it is tired of cleaning up after virus attacks.
The college, which has around 700 users, took the decision after the latest Klez virus outbreak.
The rise of hackers vs. colleges
Wednesday, May 29th, 2002Atlanta Journal-Constitution: The rise of hackers vs. colleges: Security being bolstered for university computer systems
outline weblog
Tuesday, May 28th, 2002Marc Barrot’s outline weblog keeps getting cooler.
Six arrested over ‘Nigerian email’ frauds
Friday, May 24th, 2002Six arrested over ‘Nigerian email’ frauds: Six people were arrested in South Africa last weekend on suspicion of being involved in the infamous Nigerian email and letter fraud.
Is Your Forest Burning?
Friday, May 24th, 2002Network World, Daniel Blum: Is Your Forest Burning?
Over time, Microsoft has backed away from the single-forest concept, finally publishing this past winter a white paper disclosing that service administrators in one domain can’t be isolated from other domains in the forest. Since then, Microsoft has done a security-threat analysis. It determined that a serious hacker’s goal is to gain physical access to a domain controller, or network access to a service administrator account.
Microsoft also has been doing disaster planning. Recently, it wiped out the domain controllers on its entire development group forest, which serves thousands of users, and tested the procedures necessary to bring it back online. And at Microsoft’s recent TechEd conference, a speaker went so far as to advise large companies that “if you don’t have a single CIO, you shouldn’t have a single forest.”
SQLSnake code analysis
Wednesday, May 22nd, 2002Bakos & Jiang: SQLSnake code analysis
