Oracle releases most, but not all patches, necessary to protect against SSL vulnerability. Kaspersky Labs reveals the top troublemakers in November. Yahoo's popular instant messaging program vulnerabilities.
Tool providers recognize the lack of interoperability is a serious problem, but solutions vary greatly.
New SEC rules among the reasons fewer companies will offer the benefit next year
WAFL enabled a new type of appliance-based storage hardware and set the bar for all other NAS vendors—which makes Network Appliance’s purchase of Spinnaker Networks all the more puzzling.
Installing a spam filter helped one Atlanta firm eliminate 95% of unsolicited e-mail.
Security incidents are up 15 percent, and the gap between vulnerability disclosure and exploit shrinks
F-Secure releases a dozen tips to help users avoid common worm problems
Down time, different maintenance cycles cited as problems.
Big Blue announces two new Itanium 2-based systems in just six months
New legislation will doubtless require encryption of data traversing networks and Fibre Channel fabrics.
Vulnerabilities found in IE, Word, Excel, FrontPage Server Extensions, and Windows Workstation Service.
Bluetooth can be found in newer versions of everything from PDAs to cell phones, but the technology is far from secure. Companies can employ a number of defenses against Bluetooth's risks.
IT professionals who telecommute rated the importance of the job perk significantly higher than non-telecommuters.
Cobbling together solutions for disk-to-disk-to-tape may actually drive the cost of Tier 2 disk above the price of solution sets that combine the functionality.
Indications are that the economy is picking up. Will IT employment and salaries ever follow?
Mainframe systems programmers are being compensated on par with their open systems colleagues, but salaries are barely keeping pace with inflation and health care benefit costs.
Grid services executive predicts up to 60,000 IBM desktops will run Linux next year.
PeopleSoft is doing record business, but its poison-pill offer puts an $800 million black hole on its balance sheet
Company says products can cut IT operations costs by 30 percent.
Perhaps it is time to begin buying storage on the basis of business value.