IT Management
CIO, 4/15/03: A 12-Step Program for Aspiring CIOs
Mattress Giant's CIO suggests a path to the big chair.
BY STEVE WILLIAMS
A FORMER BOSS recently wrote to me about how much he enjoys watching those whom he had mentored in previous years succeed in their life's endeavors. My own memories went back to days when, together, we had wrestled with converting the databases of an acquisition and visiting with English-impaired Japanese joint venture partners. Those seemed, at the time, trying days. But in retrospect, they were tiny jewels of experience that my former managers and mentors bestowed on me. I consider myself lucky to have worked for and beside each of them.
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ZDNet, 4/24/03: Cisco flaw exposes Windows servers
By Patrick Gray
A potentially critical vulnerability has been found in Cisco Systems' Secure Access Control Server for Windows servers, which is used to control devices such as routers in large networks.
The buffer overflow glitch may allow an attacker to seize control of the Cisco service when it's running on Windows, according to Cisco. The Unix variant is not affected. Exploitation of the flaw could result in a malicious hacker gaining full control of a target company's security infrastructure, leaving it completely exposed.
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Internet Week, 4/24/03: Microsoft's Its Own Worst Enemy When It Comes To Upgrades, Poll Says
By Mitch Wagner
As Microsoft gears up to introduce Windows Server 2003 on Thursday, an InternetWeek QuickPoll shows that the company is becoming its own worst enemy.
Fully a third of respondents in the unscientific poll said inertia, or satisfaction with Microsoft products, is their greatest barrier to upgrading to the latest version of server Windows.
The second-place obstacle was Microsoft's pricing, according to about a quarter of respondents. And users cited their own IT budget constraints as the third most common obstacle.
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The New York Times, 4/24/03: Microsoft Tries to Conquer the Corporate Data Center
By JOHN MARKOFF
SAN FRANCISCO, April 23 — In announcing the third generation of its software for controlling corporate data centers, Microsoft is eager to convince the world that it is now confidently outpacing the competition.
"This is about scaling up," Bill Gates, Microsoft's chairman and co-founder, said in a recent telephone interview. "We can now compete with the most expensive machines in the world."
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Infoworld, 4/24/03: Latest Microsoft bulletins affect Outlook, IE
Vulnerabilities are rated as 'critical'
By Paul Roberts April 23, 2003
BOSTON -- Two new product security patches from Microsoft target a number of critical security flaws in the Outlook Express e-mail application and Internet Explorer Web browser.
The bulletins, MS03-014 and MS03-015, were released Wednesday by the Redmond, Washington, software maker and describe a variety of security flaws that could give remote attackers access to data stored on machines running the vulnerable applications.
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