software development, security, opinion
VNUNet.com: Sun’s rising star enters Microsoft space
Though they initially picked up StarOffice as a budget stop-gap, the Central Scotland Police say Microsoft’s licensing will cost too much and that they hope to do away with Microsoft altogether.
A breakthrough new security technology?. ZDNet Jul 29 2001 9:39PM ET
OKENA, a new company co-founded by Shaun McConnon, who founded Raptor Systems (now part of Symantec), recently introduced an innovative, proactive intrusion detection and prevention product that started shipping on April 1. StormWatch is smart enough to understand how applications should behave, and tough enough to prevent them from being led astray by wily hackers.
Security a victim of mismanagement. ZDNet Jul 26 2001 1:49PM ET [Computer security news]
ZDNet: SAML apps before their time?
Single-sign-on apps may arrive before the spec, causing interoperability problems down the road.
David Moore at CAIDA (The Cooperative Association for Internet Data Analysis) – The Spread of the Code-Red Worm (CRv2).
On July 19, 2001 more than 359,000 computers were infected with the Code-Red (CRv2) worm in less than 14 hours. At the peak of the infection frenzy, more than 2,000 new hosts were infected each minute. 43% of all infected hosts were in the United States, while 11% originated in Korea followed by 5% in China and 4% in Taiwan. The .NET Top Level Domain (TLD) accounted for 19% of all compromised machines, followed by .COM with 14% and .EDU with 2%. We also observed 136 (0.04%) .MIL and 390 (0.11%) .GOV hosts infected by the worm. A QuickTime animation of the geographic expansion of the worm is available.
SSH hits the fan for Unix admins
Security hole with SSH3 client and SSHD2 server for accounts with two-character passwords.
[Security Focus]
IP Personality 20010724 (Default). Linux kernel patch that allows you to fool remote OS detection schemes. [freshmeat.net]
| Slashdot calls Teoma a rival to Google. Based on the one search I had time for, I’d say it is. |
IT bugs out over IIS security. ZDNet Jul 23 2001 9:38AM ET [Computer security news]
