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IBM's widely used DB2 database software, which often stores critical data such as credit card information, has flaws that would be "trivial" for attackers to exploit. The holes, uncovered by Core Security, a network security firm, involve simple stack-based buffer overflows and are triggered by send...
The Internet community is failing to see the value of domain giant VeriSign's SiteFinder service, which redirects users to a VeriSign site instead of producing the traditional error message for mistyped or nonexistent Internet addresses. The service, known as "wildcard" functionality, is fouling eff...
Following the same pattern of predictions as the one that led to last month's devastating Blaster worm, security analysts have begun to focus on the new crop of Microsoft Windows vulnerabilities and the attack tools created to take advantage of them -- all of which could indicate that a potential ne...
Processors continue to get faster and faster, but the frontside bus (FSB) remains one of the biggest bottlenecks on system performance. Most major manufacturers, including Intel, Motorola and AMD, are trying to develop methods to sidestep FSB limitations. What most computer users do not realize is t...
A significant step to broaden the use of PC Cards in desktop computers was taken today by the PCMCIA industry standards group. The PCMCIA group -- a nonprofit trade association founded in 1989 to establish technical standards for PC Card technology and to promote interchangeability among computer sy...
Hoping to synchronize better with IT security's private sector, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security has enlisted Symantec vice president for managed services Amit Yoran as director of its cyber security division and has forged a partnership with the CERT Coordination Center to speed warning and...
Verizon's U.S. District Court appeal over the subpoena powers granted to the Recording Industry Association of America, to be considered Tuesday, calls into question the music industry group's tactics and highlights privacy concerns. The RIAA has pushed forward with its strategy of pursuing individu...
After nearly two years in development, Borland has announced two updated tools for C++ developers: C++BuilderX and Enterprise Studio for C++. The company is calling the tools the first technology-independent development suite designed to address the complexity of modern-day application development. ...
Hoping to hook manufacturers and shippers beholden to modest radio frequency identification (RFID) implementation requirements from companies like Wal-Mart, IBM has announced new service and software offerings to help roll out the wireless tag-tracking technology. Wal-Mart is putting manufacturers u...
You are walking past a coffee shop one morning, your mobile phone beeps, and up pops a coupon for a free croissant. You are driving on the highway when your computer screen displays a message telling you that an accident has occurred 10 miles up the road, so you take an alternate route. Zealous vend...
An Internet-connected grid project of potentially millions of personal computers is being launched by a group of UK-based universities, weather services and software companies in an effort to predict global climate. As a collaboration of Oxford, the Open University, Met Office, the Rutherford Applet...
Microsoft has moved up the public prerelease date of the new edition of its Office 2003 productivity suite to Monday, September 15, to let some of its business customers download the desktop application bundle about two weeks sooner than originally planned. The software -- which will be released to ...
Coming to a notebook near you -- it's 3D display technology from Sharp. But industry observers say it is likely to be a slow start for the Mebius PC-RD3D notebook, which the electronics giant is planning to release in Japan next month and in the United States by the end of the year. Sharp said its 1...
Colocation. Co-location. Colo. Collocation from the Latin collocare. It's one of those words we can't make up our minds how to spell. But they all mean the same thing in IT terms: the practice of housing servers -- usually Web or telecommunications servers -- in secure, well-connected facilities. St...
If you're one of the remaining 260 defendants targeted in lawsuits by the Recording Industry Association of America for music piracy on the Internet, don't count on being bailed out of your jam by P2P United. The group, which represents major file-sharing sites on the Net, has pledged to pay the $2,...
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