Previous DayWhat should we look for
Talkback As a webmaster of a small site, the traffic we get (6000 unique visitors per month) is probably too small for us to be bothered; but how could we check whether the site has been compromised ?...
Microsoft SQL zero-day adds to IE7 woes
Blog A zero day vulnerability has been reported in Microsoft SQL server. Austrian pen-testing outfit SEC Consult has put out an advisory warning of a limited memory overwrite vulnerability in...
Google Chrome leaves beta
News The search giant's web browser has officially stepped out of beta, and has added features including a revised bookmark manager
Does the World need more Visionaries?
Talkback To me, the most important question for CIOs and CTOs is not visions of the future. Visions are cheap, very prolific and often decades before their time. The world desperately needs leaders who have...
RE:Can code crunchers be GUI gurus too?
Blog Comment Well Geoff - I have to agree and enthuse and also comment back in various other directions. Y'know - as I sat there at the "Genius Bar" in Annapolis last night I was thinking about the inherent...
RE:Two New Linux Beta Distributions
Blog Comment To install rpms in pclinuxos you can do this one of two ways. First, install Kpackage and then right click the rpm and choose to open it with kpackage. Second, install them from the command line...
BBC iPlayer heads to set-top boxes
News The BBC, Channel 4 and BT will work on a platform to carry on-demand content to new broadband-enabled TV receivers
Sun shuts down Scottish manufacturing
News Over 100 jobs will go as the company shuts down the manufacturing arm of its plant in Linlithgow
Socitm merges with charity IT association
News The Society of IT Management is merging with the Charity IT Resource Alliance, an equivalent for IT professionals in the third sector
North-south divide mirrored in IT pay
News Tech workers who earn in excess of £70k are a fifth more likely to live in the south than in the north-east or west of England, the Midlands or Wales, according to a skills survey
The hidden success of open source (and GPLv3)
Blog There are more lines of open source code out there, better annotated and more carefully licensed, than you might think. That's according to a "myth-busting" post this week from Black Duck. The...
RE:Two New Linux Beta Distributions
Blog Comment I use PCLinuxOs on one of my main computers, and have looked at 2009,beta 2. Had problems trying to run the live CD on my Toshiba laptop. The 2008 Gnome version installed on it without a problem....
Apple issues updates to fix MacBook glitches
News The company has released firmware updates designed to 'improve stability' on MacBooks, MacBook Pros and MacBook Airs purchased after October
Googling Security
Review This book examines how Google can (wittingly or unwittingly, directly or indirectly) breach our privacy.
RE:Can code crunchers be GUI gurus too?
Blog Comment Hey Adrian, Years ago, there used to be the AppleCentres. They were all over the UK and I think the US and you could walk into one and you could have been in any AppleCentre anywhere in the world....
Downturn may turn techies to crime, say reports
News PricewaterhouseCoopers and security vendor Finjan expect insider fraud and cybercrime to rise as IT jobs are lost
Police aim to develop 'computer breathalyser'
News Efficiency gains could result from a digital forensic tool capable of instantly flagging up illegal activity on any PC it's attached to
HP to offer Suse desktop Linux to small businesses
News The company will offer Novell's Suse Linux Enterprise Desktop to business and education customers, and will expand its virtualised browsing software
Compliance - 2b Forensic readiness planning, really, you need to do this.
Blog Most businesses are aware of the need to keep personal and other data secure, and to have a disaster recovery plan in place, but haven't even heard of, let alone considered a forensic readiness...
