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January 19, 2007 · 12:48pm
Editor · Security
Severe storms across Europe have been used as a lure to make users download a virus in an unusual real-time assault, said Mikko Hypponen, chief research officer for F-Secure.The virus, which the company named "Storm Worm" has been sent to hundreds of thousands of email addresses globally, with the e-mail's subject line saying "230 dead as storm batters Europe."The attached file contains the malware that can infiltrate computer systems.
January 19, 2007
Editor · Storage
What else will happen in the world of storage? Here some more ideas continued from Part One: 6. SAN Inclusion - this is a concept we came up with that is conjoined with iSCSI. The general idea is to use iSCSI as a way to include departmental and workgroup servers into the SAN within the data center. This was one of the big promises of iSCSI and we feel that now that the technology has entered the early mainstream the...
January 18, 2007
Editor · Platforms
Adobe Systems Incorporated announced the availability of Adobe(R) Flash(R) Player 9 for Linux, the next-generation client runtime for engaging with Flash content and applications on Linux open source operating systems.
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Remember this name: Perceptive Pixel , because you'll be telling anyone who will listen about their kit for the next month.
Editor · Knowledge Management
Blake's blog: career, management and life philosophy, via kitchen utensils : Job descriptions are evil.
Editor · Software Development
Yahoo Research Berkeley has launched World Explorer , a cool little app that lets you type in a location and browse geotagged photos from Flickr.
January 17, 2007
Editor · Wireless
The concept of municipally owned Wi-Fi makes a comeback: I've been blunt in noting for a couple of years that I don't generally support the idea of cities entering the telecommunications business except in cases in which alternatives are few. But municipally owned wireless really doesn't mean that towns and metropolises are encouraged to develop, say, a utility-based in-house expertise. Rather, it's the other side of...
Editor · Storage
One of the wonderful things about the storage industry is how rapidly prices fall and new technologies become available to more people.What is less wonderful is that as this sophisticated technology moves down market, it keeps the same terminology and mindset from bigger, more sophisticated applications.
Editor · Data Management
Stefano Mazzocchi , via his blog: Stefano's Linotype , delivers insightful contribution to the ongoing effort to recapture the essence of the original Semantic Web vision.
Editor · Data Management
Our new favorite phrase in hardware lust around the 10 HQ has been 'multi-core' (Sampy says it like Leeloo Dallas says 'multi-pass').
January 16, 2007
Editor · Networking
Kim Cameron and Dick Hardt debating the pluses and minuses of OpenId and Infocards. I agree with Kim that these are largely apples and oranges, sure there is some use case overlap, but they are designed to solve different identity problems. One of the big advantages I see in Infocards' approach that is particularly valuable for medium to high assurance systems, is that there is flexibility to treat certain identity c...
Editor · Security
Google's Month of Security Flaws : " By now it's common news that Google has been hit by what seems like half a dozen ormore cross site scripting security flaws in the past month. If you missed the news,you can read blog posts like More Googlesecurity failures and Wow, moreGoogle XSS problems which contain links to some of the stories of recent exploits.The bugs in those blog posts aren't exhaustive, I've seen some b...
Editor · Intrusion Prevention / Security
Hard to believe but true: there’s another vulnerability currently live on Google’s servers, allowing a malicious hacker to point you to a (long) Google.com URL... and then receive your cookie data, with which the hacker can access and modify your Google docs and spreadsheets, and view your email subjects & first words, your search history (if enabled) and much more... similar to the previous vulnerability .
Editor · Software Development
Technology Evaluation Centers (TEC) has a series of articles ( Part I , Part II , Part III , Part IV - free registration required) talking about Software as a Service (SaaS), including specific information on supply chain management solutions that are available as the SaaS model. There's also specific information on Kinaxis here .
January 12, 2007
Editor · Security / Storage
My latest in CW on thinking about power, cooling, air flow, standards, and all sorts of other fun stuff....
Editor · Storage
Jeremy had to call me in my sickbed this morning to tell me that two more nails had been put into the coffin of Blu-Ray (the 50 GB optical media). First, the powers that be have decided not to allow the release of adult titles (aka, porn) on the medium.
Editor · Security / Storage
I loved Chuck Hollis' (EMC) blog, and equally enjoyed both Dave Hitz and Tony Asaro's responses. With EMC, Netapp, and another ESG'er pontificating on an issue, it must be good. All of the aforementioned folks are smarter than I, but...
Editor · Intrusion Prevention / Security
Security researchers have posted exploit code for a Mac OS X vulnerability that runs through Apple's Safari web browser.According to security firm Secunia that gave the vulnerability a rating of hi