Security
Computerworld, 5/13/04: Security holes uncovered in Symantec, Norton products
News Story by Kieren McCarthy, Techworld.com
MAY 13, 2004 (TECHWORLD.COM) - Almost the entire range of Symantec Corp. security software, from Norton Internet Security through to the Symantec Firewall, requires urgent updates, the company has warned, after four critical vulnerabilities were found by security company eEye Digital Security Inc.
One of the holes remains open even with all ports filtered and intrusion rules set thanks to a separate design flaw, eEye has warned. This makes it an almost certain target for worm writers, one of which -- if history is any indication -- may be put out on the Internet within 24 hours.
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Infoworld, 5/13/04: Critical 802.11 wireless flaw identified
Worldwide ramifications likely
By Sandra Rossi, Computerworld Australia May 13, 2004
A serious wireless network technology flaw that could lead to the breakdown of some critical infrastructures in just five seconds has been identified by Queensland University of Technology's (QUT) Information Security Research Centre, a finding that is likely to have worldwide ramifications.
Wireless technology is gaining traction and in some countries is used to control infrastructures such as railway networks, energy transmission and other utilities.
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Mobile
C|net, 5/13/04: PalmOne updates software for Treo 600 smart phone
By Ina Fried
Handheld maker PalmOne released a software update for its Treo 600 smart phone on Thursday that's designed to make the device more reliable.
The update is initially only for those who own a Sprint version of the phone, with other carriers still in the process of testing the update on their networks.
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Hewlett Packard
C|net, 5/13/04: HP buys IT training firms
By Dinesh C. Sharma
Hewlett-Packard announced on Thursday that it has acquired two information technology training and consultancy businesses.
Infrastructure Management of Dallas, which does business as ManageOne, and U.K.-based CEC Europe Service Management will be integrated with HP's customer support unit, the tech giant said. It did not announce the financial terms of the deal.
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Really Smart Ideas
The New York Times, 5/14/04: Adapting a Company's Tools and Selling Them to Others
By GARY RIVLIN
Conventional wisdom holds that the most ingenious technology innovations are found inside fledgling start-up companies, if not the dormitories of Stanford University.
Yet the core product of Epitome Systems, a company based in Wayne, Pa., that will introduce that item and its business next week, was developed by software engineers at the General Motors Acceptance Corporation's commercial mortgage division, one of the world's largest lending operations.
Vincent J. Rogusky, the founder and co-chief executive of Epitome, was convinced that commercially valuable software could be found in established American companies. Mr. Rogusky, a 46-year-old engineer, approached several large companies in the fall of 2001 in search of promising technologies.
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Otherwise
The New York Times, 5/14/04: Greeks Bearing Immortality
By A. O. SCOTT
THIS war will never be forgotten. Nor will the heroes who fight in it." This line of dialogue expresses a thought that recurs frequently, with various inflections and in the mouths of various heroes, over the nearly two and a half hours of Wolfgang Petersen's "Troy," which had its world premiere here last night and opens nationwide in the United States today. In one sense, it is less a prophecy than a statement of the obvious, since the names of Achilles, Hector, Odysseus and the rest have endured for 3,000 years. At the same time, though, the endless talk of immortality seems to express the picture's anxious, naïve ambition, which is to rise above the welter of summer blockbusters and ascend into the pantheon of movie classics.
This is most unlikely. "Troy," which cost something approaching the gross national product of modern Greece, will be lucky to survive the arrival of "Shrek 2" on Wednesday. But for what it is — a big, expensive, occasionally campy action movie full of well-known actors speaking in well-rounded accents — "Troy" is not bad.
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