Microsoft details network hack in Windows
Microsoft Corp. is warning of an attack that could be used to divert someone’s Web traffic through a malicious proxy server.
Are you a security threat?
Here’s a nasty little truth about the data-leakage problem: The people charged with keeping information systems up and running often pose the biggest threat to information protection. They’ve got broad access and powerful tools, and they know how to circumvent typical content-protection mechanisms.
3Com, IBM extend VoIP- messaging interoperability
3Com and IBM this week extended their integration of virtualized VoIP by enabling interoperability between IBM’s Lotus Sametime and 3Com’s IP PBX, running on IBM’s midrange servers.
Code posted for IE attack
New software has been published on the Internet that could be used to exploit a known flaw in Internet Explorer.
Despite upgrades, security experts fear $100 laptops
Despite a concerted effort on the part of the One Laptop per Child project to improve the overall security of its devices, researchers contend that the effort to distribute new teaching resources to the world’s young and poor could create significant problems.
Novell takes Microsoft’s InfoCard technology open source
Novell is developing an open source implementation of Microsoft’s identity card technology that is functionally equivalent to the Windows software but will run on both Linux and Macintosh.
Alcatel-Lucent wins $6 billion Verizon Wireless deal
Verizon Wireless this week awarded Alcatel-Lucent a $6 billion, three-year contract to supply network equipment, software and services for Verizon Wireless’ network expansion and upgrades.
Cisco announces IP surveillance camera
Cisco this week unveiled its video-surveillance product strategy during ISC West, a conference being held in Las Vegas that focuses on physical security systems.
Researchers: Don’t trust Google, Yahoo to show you the good stuff
Researchers are trying to figure out how to make more of the good stuff float to the top of Internet search engines and keep more of the bad stuff buried.
Blogs
Buzzblog: Good day for trees, bad day for magazines
At least the print versions of magazines, as Life and InfoWorld, longtime mainstays in their respective fields, announced yesterday that they would be pulling the plugs on their respective print versions.
Today on Layer 8, we like nice vacations but this one sounds a bit pricey:
It’s a long way from helping Microsoft write Word and Excel, that’s for sure. Next month, billionaire software developer Charles Simonyi will become the fifth civilian to fly in space when he rockets to the international space station aboard a Russian Soyuz TMA-10 capsule. Simonyi is spending more than $20 million for the trip. Simonyi started at Microsoft in 1981 and oversaw the development of Word and Excel, as well as Excel’s predecessor Multiplan. He left in 2002 to co-found Intentional Software.
From Microsoft Subnet: 1989 Bill Gates speech unearthed
The Computer Science Club at the University of Waterloo has available for download a 1989 talk by Bill Gates, in which he discusses the future of computing in the next four years.
