Offshoring
The New York Times, 7/14/04: India Sees Backlash Fading Over Boom in Outsourcing
Infosys, India's second-largest outsourcing company, reported quarterly profits up 39.2 percent.
By SARITHA RAI
BANGALORE, India, July 13 - The backlash against the outsourcing of software and back-office services to India appears to have died down, executives here said Tuesday as a bellwether company posted better-than-expected earnings, mostly on improved business from the United States.
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Security
Internetnews.com, 7/13/04: Microsoft Hits, Misses on Security Releases
By Sean Michael Kerner
TORONTO -- For those who like their bad news first, Microsoft (Quote, Chart) said it plans to release its Network Access Protection patch management tools in 2005 instead of this year.
During Microsoft's Worldwide Partner Conference here, Mike Nash, Microsoft corporate vice president for security business and technology, outlined Microsoft's Network Access Protection (NAP) technology strategy and announced the general availability of Microsoft Internet Security and Acceleration (ISA) Server 2004.
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Infoworld, 7/13/04: Symantec buys anti-spam router maker TurnTide
TurnTide buy is Symantec's second spam-related acquisition in the past month
By Robert McMillan, IDG News Service July 13, 2004
Symantec Corp. has snatched up six-month-old router vendor TurnTide Inc. for an undisclosed sum.
TurnTide, based in Conshohocken, Pennsylvania, sells a spam-filtering router called the Anti-Spam Router that identifies and blocks Internet traffic from "abusive senders," according to the company's Web site.
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Computerworld, 7/13/04: Companies warn of mass Trojan distribution
The program is being distributed on the Web through spam
News Story by Paul Roberts
JULY 13, 2004 (IDG NEWS SERVICE) - Antivirus and e-mail security companies sent out warnings today about a new Trojan horse program that they claim is being mass distributed on the Internet using unsolicited commercial e-mail, or spam.
The program, called Backdoor-CGT, is a new form of a Trojan horse installed after e-mail recipients using Microsoft Corp.'s Outlook e-mail program follow a Web link embedded in an e-mail message. The Trojan horse is believed to have infected thousands of systems on the Internet since appearing early today, even though antivirus software and up-to-date versions of Outlook are immune to attack, according to Maksym Schipka, senior antivirus researcher at MessageLabs Ltd. in the U.K.
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Computerword, 7/13/04: Microsoft issues seven security patches, two critical
The critical patches fix holes that could allow attackers to control vulnerable systems
News Story by Paul Roberts
JULY 13, 2004 (IDG NEWS SERVICE) - Microsoft Corp. today released seven security patches covering a wide array of the company's products. Two of those patches fix holes that Microsoft deemed "critical" and warned could allow remote attackers to take control of vulnerable Windows systems.
The software updates include fixes for previously unknown holes in the Windows operating system, including critical holes in the Windows Task Manager and HTML help features. The company also published a patch for a recent publicly disclosed hole in the Windows Shell application programming interface (API) and fixed a hole in older versions of the Internet Information Services (IIS) Web server that one expert said is well-suited for use in an Internet worm.
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C|net, 7/13/04: Worm sleeps to avoid detection
By Munir Kotadia
The latest mass-mailing worm, Atak, hides by going to sleep when it suspects that antivirus software is trying to detect it.
Atak was first discovered Monday. Although antivirus companies do not expect it to cause much damage, they say it will be a nuisance because it can generate a large amount of spam.
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Bigger Picture
Fortune, 7/8/04: A PC Pioneer Decries the State of Computing
Hewlett-Packard's Alan Kay, who played a pivotal role in the invention of the personal computer, says business should think more creatively about the potential of technology.
I have a soft spot for people who say things like "The computer revolution hasn't started yet...we're not even close to what we should have." I'm prone to agree. But when the speaker is Alan Kay, who invented a huge proportion of what we do have today, I enthusiastically grant him credence.
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