Microsoft
Ziffnet, 2/7/03: Microsoft gives coders a bug-catcher
By Robert Lemos
Microsoft developers now have a new tool to help them catch security bugs in their own code.
The software giant plans to announce on Monday that a plug-in created by security firm Sanctum, scheduled for release in March, will be the first to easily integrate with Microsoft's development platform Visual Studio .Net. The tool, AppScan Developer Edition 1.5, can be run on Web applications in real time to catch common programming flaws.
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Information Week, 2/10/03: Microsoft Serves Up Datacenter Support
As its systems scale higher, vendor offers more troubleshooting service options
By John Foley
Look out IBM. Microsoft last week disclosed plans for several new services that put it more squarely in the role of data-center support provider. Until now, the developer has left the bulk of such duties to large hardware partners such as Hewlett-Packard and Unisys Corp.
Microsoft's Datacenter High Availability Program is aimed at customers of Windows Server 2003, Datacenter Edition, scheduled for availability in April. It's an expansion of a 2-year-old Datacenter support program launched around Windows 2000. "We've put more Microsoft skin in the game," says Bob Ellsworth, director of the enterprise technical team with Windows Server marketing.
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Personal Computers
ZDNet, 2/7/03: HP, IBM shrink PCs to do business
By John G. Spooner
Hewlett-Packard and IBM have quietly released new business PCs that are easy on desktop real estate.
IBM this week added 10 new petite models to its NetVista S42 line, while HP launched three new tiny Evo D510 machines.
These small desktops are designed for businesses that have concerns about space, such as those with employees who work trading floors or in call centers. The machines, which are roughly 50 percent to 75 percent smaller than a typical desktop, can be mounted more easily in an out-of-the-way spot, such as under a desk. When combined with a flat-panel display, the machines take up even less little space.
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Security
Internetnews, 2/7/03: Report: Bush Considering Cyber Warfare
By Roy Mark
President Bush secretly signed an order last July directing administration officials to develop the parameters for possible cyber-attacks against enemy computer networks, according to a report in Friday's Washington Post. The report also says the Pentagon is actively developing "cyber-weapons," to disable enemy radar, electrical grids and telephone systems.
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The New York Times, 2/10/03: E-mail Spam Scam Is Sent in Bush's Name
By MATTHEW MIRAPAUL
At first, the e-mail message reads like all the others: There's the need for confidentiality. An assurance that the transaction is completely legal. And the inevitable appeal, in awkwardly formal language, for help in procuring a large amount of money.
This may come to you as a surprise (to borrow the language of such e-mail notes), but the message was not sent by someone claiming to be an African potentate's heir. Instead, it says, it was written by President Bush, the son of a former president, who seeks your urgent assistance in financing the removal of Iraq's leader. His "trusted intermediary" for the transaction: the Internal Revenue Service.
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The New York Times, 2/9/03: Tangled Up in Spam
By JAMES GLEICK
I know what your in-box looks like, and it isn't pretty. It looks like mine: a babble of come-ons and lies from hucksters and con artists. To find your real e-mail, you must wade through the torrent of fraud and obscenity known politely as ''unsolicited bulk e-mail'' and colloquially as spam. In a perverse tribute to the power of the online revolution, we are all suddenly getting the same mail.
The spam epidemic has just a few themes and variations: phone cards, cable descramblers, vacation prizes. Easy credit, easy weight loss, free vacations, free Girlz. Inkjet cartridges and black-market Viagra, get-rich-quick schemes and every possible form of pornography. The crush of these messages on the world's networks is now numbered in billions per day. One anti-spam service measured more than five million unique spam attacks in December, almost three times as many as a year earlier. The well is poisoned.
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Bubble Economy
The New York Times, 2/9/03: Yet Another Persecuted Architect of the Tech Bubble
By GRETCHEN MORGENSON
DURING the technobubble, Frank P. Quattrone was the man to see if you were a new-economy entrepreneur looking for other people's money to pocket. In the technobust, Mr. Quattrone, an investment banker at Credit Suisse First Boston, is facing questions over his advice to colleagues that they shred documents about the faltering companies he helped finance.
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