IT Management
Internetweek, 1/31/03: Gravity Storm Upgrades Automated Patch Deployment Tool
Gravity Storm Software on Friday introduced the latest version of software designed to apply service packs to Microsoft products.
Service Pack Manager 2000 version 6.9.0.3 is designed to apply fixes to security vulnerabilities and stability problems in Microsoft Windows NT/2000/XP and other Microsoft products, including SQL Server, ISA Server, and Microsoft Exchange.
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Security
Computerworld, 1/31/03: Q&A: Symantec's John Schwarz on the Slammer worm
By DAN VERTON
Symantec President and Chief Operating Officer John Schwarz talked this week with Computerworld reporter Dan Verton about the recent outbreak of the Slammer worm and offered important advice for companies struggling to find the right mix of security.
What's your assessment of why the Slammer worm succeeded to the extent that it did? The worm was not all that different from other attacks that we've seen in the past. But it did have one interesting feature: It was wholly [a] memory resident. It had no file connections of any type, which made it very difficult for antivirus products to detect. The one fairly effective mechanism against the worm was heuristic or anomaly-based intrusion-detection devices that saw a dramatic increase in activity against port 1434.
But the best defense against this particular worm was the application of the right patch. If people had kept their systems up to date they would have had no problem.
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EDS
The Wall Street Journal, 2/2/03: Former EDS Executive Accuses Company of Inflating Results
By GARY MCWILLIAMS
A fired Electronic Data Systems Corp. executive has accused the second largest computer-services company of inflating profit and revenue in a drive to boost its stock price.
Frederick G. Steingraber, former chairman emeritus of EDS's A.T. Kearney consulting unit, made the allegations in a countersuit filed in U.S. District Court, Sherman, Texas. His suit accused EDS executives of a "campaign to manipulate the company's financial statements in order to artificially inflate" revenue and profits.
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What’s Next
The San Francisco Chronicle, 2/3/03: Horizons expand for inventor of Web: Berners-Lee's codes could revolutionize Internet searches
Leslie Walker
Tim Berners-Lee could well be the J.R.R. Tolkien of the computer world.
Tolkien, a philologist and author of "The Lord of the Rings," created a fantasy world in which characters used languages he invented. Berners-Lee is the inventor who gave us the World Wide Web, a system built on "languages" largely created by Berners-Lee. He's now working on a sequel, called the Semantic Web.
"It is a paradigm shift, like the original World Wide Web," Berners-Lee told scientists gathered at the National Science Foundation to hear his progress report last Monday.
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