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Open source team to shake up systems management
News A handful of start-ups are trying to upset the stodgy world of enterprise systems management software with open source and a more democratic approach to setting industry standards. The Open Management Consortium (OMC), founded in May, is a grouping...
[July 24, 2006, 10:00]
MSDN Webcast: Virtual Lab: Architecting Connected Systems With Visual Studio 2005 Team Foundation Server (Level 200)
White Papers The webcast explains how Visual Studio Team System builds on these principles by bringing together the core roles that are part of the software development process: architects, project managers, testers, and developers.
[September 8, 2006, 0:00]
Linux open to backdoor password
News This is a very high risk," said Chris Rouland, director of Internet Security Systems' research team. According to Internet Security Systems, there's a backdoor account in Red Hat's Linux that would let a computer intruder access and alter files on...
[April 25, 2000, 13:15]
IE7: Not just for XP users
News The next version of the Internet Explorer browser will be available to a variety of Microsoft operating systems, the product team has revealed -- but Windows 2000 may well be absent from the list. According to the official IE7 blog, the browser...
[March 2, 2005, 11:25]
'Drive-by' hacking a real threat
News X-Force -- an Internet Security Systems anti-hacking team -- takes its job very seriously, even taking to the streets of Sydney for security threat analysis in the form of 'drive-by hacking'. While larger organisations are beginning to spend more...
[November 16, 2001, 10:10]
Hackers steal vital data from Formula One team
News Officials at the Benetton Formula One team admitted on Monday that hackers have broken into its computer systems and stolen valuable data. Jean-Jacques His, technical director of Renault -- which own Benetton -- claimed that someone hacked into the...
[July 17, 2001, 7:59]
Russians launch Itanium attack
News Intel is using a team of Russian engineers in its Moscow-based Intel Solutions Centre as a secret weapon in the cold war between Intel's IA-64 processors and established Risc systems. Intel's Solutions Centres, of which there are 20 worldwide and...
[June 28, 2001, 9:58]
Rochdale Schools, Edit Department - Windows & Exchange 2003 Project
White Papers The EDIT team were concerned that the performance of these systems would no longer be able to fulfill the requirements of a modern school curriculum, and as such, needed to be upgraded to provide improved functionality.
[July 7, 2006, 0:00]
The EMA All-Stars in Enterprise Systems Management for 2008
White Papers This Enterprise Management Associates® research report highlights what it considers to be the best available software solutions in a number of specific disciplines, in order to form a 'Systems Management All-Star' team, and further highlights...
[March 18, 2009, 20:16]
Multi-Core Intel Architecture Enables Eaton to Quadruple the Data Channels in Its Transmission Testing Systems
White Papers Deep inside Eaton Corporation is a team of developers whose sole mission is to refine the test and measurement systems used by the company's Truck Group R&D team. This case study explains how these developers harnessed the performance of new multi...
[March 5, 2008, 0:02]
Linux cryptography attacks seen in the wild
News Active attacks against Linux systems using the Secure Shell encryption protocol have been reported by the US Computer Emergency Readiness Team. IT professionals can tell if their systems have been compromised by searching for hidden processes and...
[August 27, 2008, 16:55]
Manchester Airport launches staff biometrics
News The Department for Transport's security team, Manchester Airport and biometric identity-management consultancy Human Recognition Systems (HRS) have launched the first iris-recognition access-control system at a UK airport.
[January 23, 2008, 11:55]
Net attacks 'getting faster'
News The window of time between vulnerability disclosure and the release of a working exploit continues to shrink, leaving enterprises with even less time to learn about and prevent attacks," Chris Rouland, vice president of Internet Security Systems...
[November 19, 2003, 9:55]
Cisco flaw exploit posted online
News It seems right now that people are testing the exploit code," said Dan Ingevaldson, engineering director for Internet Security Systems' vulnerability research team. Security experts warned on Friday that code that could be used to attack and crash...
[July 21, 2003, 8:03]
Coast Mountain Bus Company Shifts Into High Gear With Next-Generation Microsoft Products
White Papers The CMBC IT team is responsible for maintaining the company's IT infrastructure, which supports a number of critical systems, including fleet management, financial and Human Resource (HR) management, and other applications.
[February 23, 2007, 0:00]
Linux users urged to patch file-sharing flaw
News The open-source community is pushing customers to patch their systems and close a hole in a software component that allows Windows programs to store and retrieve files on Linux and Unix servers. Known as Samba, the popular software can be found on...
[March 18, 2003, 8:21]
Samba flaw opens up root access attack
News The SuSE Security Audit Team has reported that a vulnerability in the Samba suite -- which provides SMB-based file and printer sharing on many Linux and Unix systems -- can open up a system to a remote attack resulting in complete compromise of...
[April 7, 2003, 9:49]
Ferrari test drives Microsoft's HPC software
News Piergiorgio Grossi, who, as IT manager of Ferrari Gestione Sportiva, leads the professional systems for the racing team, said the choice between Linux and Windows often came down to the expertise in the organisation.
[October 17, 2008, 8:36]
Key Linux group faces split
News A schism has struck the XFree86 movement, an open-source graphics project key to Linux and several other operating systems, with the core group in charge of the project expelling one of its members. XFree86, which sends graphics commands for tasks...
[March 21, 2003, 7:58]
Inside Symantec's nuclear bunker
News Security Service (MSS) team whose main task is to filter and monitor data fed back from customers' intrusion prevention systems (IPSs), firewalls and intrusion detection systems (IDSs). News plays constantly in the background to help the team...
[November 25, 2005, 12:10]
