Whenever Microsoft patches a security vulnerability, the clock starts ticking. You’ve got weeks or even days to apply the patch to your Windows systems before some antisocial misfit takes an existing worm or virus and twists it to take advantage of the new hole. Yesterday, the company released four bulletins covering 20 vulnerabilities. Tick, tick, tick… Microsoft issues flood of critical patches http://www.nwfusion.com/news/2004/0413microissue.html?net
Whenever Microsoft patches a security vulnerability, the clock starts ticking. You’ve got weeks or even days to apply the patch to your Windows systems before some antisocial misfit takes an existing worm or virus and twists it to take advantage of the new hole. Yesterday, the company released four bulletins covering 20 vulnerabilities. Tick, tick, tick…
Microsoft issues flood of critical patches
https://www.nwfusion.com/news/2004/0413microissue.html?net
Sun Java executive surfaces at software start-up
It didn’t take long for Sun exec Rich Green to find employment elsewhere. As head of Sun’s Java tools division, Green had testified ad nauseam about the evils of Microsoft. Once Sun had settled with Microsoft, he quickly and quietly left. Find out more about the company he went to.
https://www.nwfusion.com/news/2004/0413sunja.html?net
Lindows changes OS name to Linspire
After a two-year trademark dispute with Microsoft, embattled Linux-based software vendor Lindows.com Wednesday formally changed the name of its desktop operating system from LindowsOS to “Linspire.”
https://www.nwfusion.com/news/2004/0414lindochang.html?net
NetScreen goes modular with its firewall/VPN gear
NetScreen Technologies this week will roll out a security box that plugs a gap in its current firewall/VPN product line and introduced modular hardware that will let users more easily add security functions such as intrusion prevention.
https://www.nwfusion.com/news/2004/0413netscreen.html?net
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