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Cybersquatters bank on ‘a good typo’, 04/16/07
Ron Jackson is editor and publisher of the online magazine Domain Name Journal and president of its parent company, Internet Edge Inc. Tampa, Fla.-based Internet Edge also operates a domain name registrar and several other “domain monetization” businesses, and Jackson owns about 7,000 domain names focused on generic keywords. He spoke with Computerworld last week about cybersquatting and other issues related to domain name usage.
Port scans could foreshadow Windows DNS Server exploit, 04/16/07
A major spike in activity targeting TCP Port 1025 on Windows systems may be a sign that attackers are gathering intelligence for an upcoming attack against unpatched servers, Symantec warned Monday.
E-mail security appliance uses profiling to thwart spammers’ tricks, 04/17/07
Barracuda Networks on Tuesday announced new features for its Spam Firewall e-mail security appliance that help detect spam even when senders attempt to hide their identity.
Oracle updates leave critical Windows flaw unpatched, 04/17/07
Some Oracle customers using the Windows operating system will have to wait another two weeks to receive a critical software update to their database software, thanks to a glitch that came up in testing the company’s latest patches.
Corporate data slips out via Google calendar, 04/17/07
It’s not clear what gets discussed during McKinsey & Co.’s weekly internal communication meeting, but the dial-in number and passcode for the event can be easily found by searching with Google.
HP lays out ProCurve NAC plan, 04/17/07
By year-end, ProCurve by HP will have a fleshed-out NAC portfolio to check devices before they are admitted to networks, assign and enforce their access rights as they join networks and monitor their behavior to restrict them if they misbehave.
Symantec announces Symantec Protection Network, 04/16/07
Symantec on Monday announced Symantec Protection Network, a software-as-a-service offering aimed at small to midsize businesses, with the first of the services dealing with backup and restoration of business data.
Editor’s Note: Is your IT organizational structure holding your company back?
We’re assembling a package of stories to be published in Network World looking at the IT organizational structure of the future and we need your help:News Editor Bob Brown
* If your company has recently reorganized in light of new business and technology challenges and opportunities, can you send along “before” and “after” org charts? (Feel free to strip out the names, we’re really just looking for titles. But give us a sense of the size of your IT organization/business.) Can you tell us how the reorganization has worked out?
* If your company is in need of an IT org makeover, what areas are currently most dysfunctional?
* Any advice on what your peers can do to improve their IT organizations right now?
We’re looking to tap into our readership through a technique some call “crowdsourcing.” Knowing we don’t have all the answers, but that our audience probably has a lot of them, we’re hoping to help you help each other.
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