IT Management
Press Release, 9/24/03: New National Survey Shows More Than 40 Percent of Employees Are Dissatisfied with IT Services at Work
FOSTER CITY, Calif., September 24, 2003 - newScale® Inc., the market leader in service delivery management software solutions, today announced the findings of a new national survey on internal service delivery management. Internal service delivery management includes the routine provisioning of employee workplace tools like computers, phones and access to IT systems required to perform day-to-day operations. Today's survey results highlight that people are generally dissatisfied with how IT service delivery requests are handled at work.
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Backup-Restore
C|net, 9/24/03: Seagate releases external hard drive
By Ed Frauenheim
Hard disk drive maker Seagate announced on Wednesday a new external hard drive with a push-button backup feature. The 160GB drive has a suggested retail price of $269 and is available online and at U.S. stores. A 200GB version is slated to be released later this year, Seagate said. The push-button backup system uses BounceBack Express software. For the first backup, the system makes a copy of the user's internal drive. To speed the process, subsequent backups only copy changes made to that drive's content, according to Seagate. Other features of the product include an on-off switch, the ability to plug into a computer without turning the computer off and the ability to position the drive horizontally or vertically. Seagate also said its drive doesn't generate as much heat as other external hard drives.
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Security
Computerworld, 9/24/03: New Windows holes, dangerous music
Story by Stuart J. Johnston
SEPTEMBER 24, 2003 ( PC WORLD ) - SAN FRANCISCO - Ever visited a Web site that suddenly started playing music through your computer speakers? It may be annoying, but you can always turn down the volume. And it's harmless, right? Maybe not.
Researchers at EEye Digital Security Inc. recently discovered two big holes in Windows' music playback technology. The flaws, which Microsoft rates as "critical," could allow a hacker's code to run amok on your PC by exploiting a contaminated music file. The hacker could then take over your PC and do something nasty, like delete your files.
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The Wall Street Journal, 9/25/03: Keeping Up With Hackers, Viruses
Security Expert Says Pace of Outbreaks
Quickens as Attackers Gain Sophistication
By CARL BIALIK
A year ago, Gerhard Eschelbeck presented an alarming finding to security researchers at a conference in Paris. The chief technology officer at Qualys Inc. (www.qualys.com), a Redwood Shores, Calif., security company, described a simple, elegant experiment: Researchers at the San Diego Supercomputing Center installed a lone computer on a network and left it idle. After barely a week, hacking attacks had entirely compromised the machine and transformed it into a tool for attacking other computers.
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Computerworld, 9/24/03: Lessons learned from the Blaster worm
Advice by Peter H. Gregory
SEPTEMBER 24, 2003 ( COMPUTERWORLD ) - Blaster, Nachi and their variants were worms that attacked a Windows security flaw found on most end-user workstations. Companies that were hit with these worms discovered weaknesses in their architectures, processes and procedures that weren't considered important until now. I asked some of my colleagues in information security for their comments and lessons learned. They are summarized here.
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Microsoft
The New York Times, 9/25/03: Microsoft Office 2003 Reviewed
By DAVID POGUE
WHAT would be a good motto for Microsoft? "Winning is everything"? "Might makes right"? "Money can't buy you love"?
For the new version of Microsoft Office, which arrives in stores Oct. 21, a better slogan might be, "Be careful what you wish for; you might get it."
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The Register, 9/25/03: Windows Longhorn to RTM in August 2005?
By John Lettice
Longhorn, the next version of Windows, isn't due to ship until 2005; but according to Neowin.net, it's due on August 15 2005.
A record-breaking risky prediction? Actually, the site's taking a rather bigger risk than is immediately obvious, because it's citing Microsoft sources claiming that the date will be given to partners and OEMs next month, when it will also appear on Microsoft roadmaps. It's always less stressful to predict things that are going to happen in two years than things happening next month, but this is a next month prediction.
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Future Focus
The BBC, 9/24/03: Net guru peers into web's future
Presenter Tracey Logan quizzed Tim Berners-Lee
The inventor of the web, Tim Berners-Lee, outlines his ideas for a more "intelligent" web in an interview with the BBC programme, Go Digital.
Go Digital: The worldwide web (WWW) transformed the internet from an academic reference tool to an everyday source of information as useful and almost as easy to use as the telephone.
Tim, take us back to the time when the web was little more than a twinkle in your eye. At the time, what dreams did you have for it and did you ever imagine that it would take off in the way it did?
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Optimism
C|net, 9/25/03: Study says hardware spending is up
By Dinesh C. Sharma
The information technology hardware industry is witnessing "modest and sporadic" signs of growth, though it may be far from a full-scale recovery, according to Standard & Poor's.
A persistent atmosphere of caution had marked the IT spending scenario, even though the U.S. economy is looking up, with continuing growth in the gross domestic product, the ratings company said in an outlook released Wednesday. As a result, companies have been restricting IT investments to well-defined projects with prospects of near-term return.
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