HP
eWeek, 12/9/03: Fiorina: Dell has 'Zero Impact on HP's Trajectory'
By Don E. Sears
In a briefing with analysts on Tuesday, Hewlett-Packard Co. Chairman and Chief Executive Officer Carly Fiorina offered a financial forecast for the next year and a look at its competitive challenges. Expecting slow enterprise growth in 2004, she said the company was well-positioned thanks to its extensive consumer and small-business product lines.
Fiorina characterized enterprise growth in next year as "the slowest-growing segment of the market, with 2004 IT budgets increasing 1 to 2 percent."
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Security
eWeek, 12/9/03: Microsoft: No Security Bulletins on Deck for December
By Dennis Fisher
In the past four years, Microsoft Corp. has issued at least one security bulletin—and often as many as a half dozen—every month. But not this month. For the first time in living memory, or at least as far back as Microsoft's Web site records go, the company does not plan to issue any scheduled security bulletins this month.
This doesn't necessarily mean that there won't be any bulletins all month; if a critical issue arises, Microsoft will release a patch and bulletin as soon as possible, a company spokesman said. But the company in September went to a schedule in which it releases all of its bulletins on the second Tuesday of each month, so the next scheduled release will be in January.
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Silicon.com, 12/10/03: Microsoft flaw could unleash another Slammer
by Robert Lemos
An attacker could use a recently patched Microsoft flaw to create a fast-moving worm similar to SQL Slammer, which spread rapidly across the internet a year ago, a research company has warned.
Core Security Technologies discovered that the Windows Workstation vulnerability announced by Microsoft last month could be exploited using the same type of data used by the SQL Slammer worm to spread across the internet in just minutes.
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Networking
Infoworld, 12/9/03: First test of IPv6 network goes well
No problems seen as tests go forward
An early test of a multi-site, next-generation Internet, powered by IPv6 (Internet Protocol Version 6) went well, and the coalition of groups working on the so-called Moonv6 project will conduct more comprehensive tests starting in February, said two people involved in the project Tuesday.
A white paper detailing the lessons learned from the first phase of the Moonv6 project, a project to test IPv6, should be available on the Moonv6 Web site, at http://moonv6.sr.unh.edu/, within two weeks. However, researchers reported Tuesday that their first two-week test of the network, which connected seven military sites across the U.S., seemed to run without major problems.
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