Book Reviews


[Day Permalink] Thursday, October 30, 2003

[Item Permalink] Updated impressions of the G5 supercluster -- Comment()
I updated my story about the the Apple G5 dual supercluster at Virginia Tech with details from the TecCon Keynote.


[Item Permalink]  -- Comment()
@Stake issues security advisories for OS X Jaguar: "Security consulting firm, @Stake issued three security advisories for Apple's Mac OS X operating system late last night. The advisories affect Mac OS X 10.2.8 and lower and do not appear to affect the company's recently released Panther operating system. In fact, @Stake is recommending users upgrade to Panther as a fix for the problems." [MacCentral]

It is interesting to note that @Stake recently fired their Technology Director for co-writing the widely cited white paper Cyber Insecurity: The Cost of Monopoly. It was said that @Stake has done software evaluation research for Microsoft, which may have influenced the firing.

I understand that these Mac OS X advisories are rather speculative in nature. Seeing the first Mac OS X worm or virus might not be too far in the future, though. But we'll see. We have been waiting for the first virus to appear for several years now.