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Zero Day - Aug 30, 2007
The Bank of India Web site has been hijacked by online criminals and is being used to serve up rootkits and backdoor Trojans on unpatched Windows machines.
Tagged: microsoft, firefox, browsers, hackers, passwords, digital rights management, botnets, data theft, vulnerability research, exploit code, rootkits, spam and phishing, zero day attacks, metasploit, viruses and worms, spyware and adware, responsible disclosure, pen testing, patch watch
software News items, Blog posts | ZDNet - Aug 30, 2007
Since the hypothetical Solid American Brass (SAB) is a start-up, the people there don't have the communal memory characteristic of larger, older, organizations. Instead, the key players have to rely on personal …
Tagged: software, strategy, enterprise software, asset management, paul murphy
IT Project Failures - Aug 30, 2007
I’m sorry, but I can’t resist. Information Week has published pictures of Google’s newest data center in Oregon. (no, I’m not a geek; no chance….) External power grid that feeds Google data center: [via Nick Carr]
Tagged: off topic
IT Project Failures - Aug 30, 2007
Oliver Widder has been tracking me and a few other bloggers. I mean that in a nice way: he draws cartoons about ironic and silly IT situations, using several IT blogs as source material. Really worth a look! Here’s his …
Tagged: off topic, consulting, vendor relationships
The Apple Core - Aug 30, 2007
To get around the apparent legal issues of selling iPhone unlocking software a group is offering a $100,000 bounty for the first person that releases the software for free. According freeiphoneformoney.blogspot.com: We …
George Ou - Aug 30, 2007
Peter Gutmann - the man who admittedly never used Vista and author of the widely cited and widely discredited paper “A Cost Analysis of Windows Vista Content Protection” - has taken his fight in to the gutter. Now that …
News items | ZDNet - Aug 30, 2007
Government is taking a harder look at Intel's plans to create a private chip company with STMicroelectronics. Federal Trade Commission officials are taking a deeper look into Intel's plans to create a private chip …
Tagged: government, industry, antitrust, ftc, stmicroelectronics, intel corp, dawn kawamoto, processors and semiconductors
News items | ZDNet - Aug 30, 2007
Updated competition guidelines mean more outsourcing deals in Europe may have to go to the European Commission for approval. New competition guidelines in Europe are set to put outsourcing deals under greater scrutiny …
Tagged: outsourcing, european commission, commission, supplier, corporate and legal, andy mccue
Between the Lines - Aug 30, 2007
This week on the Dan & David Show my Between the Lines colleague Larry Dignan fills in for the vacationing David Berlind. We discuss the news this week about Vista Service Pack 1 coming out in beta soon. There are …
Tagged: microsoft, open source, broadband, personal technology, sun, wired and 038 wireless, dan and 038 david show
Between the Lines - Aug 30, 2007
Mercedes-Benz USA will offer the ability to send directions from Google or Yahoo Maps directly from a computer or mobile device to one of their cars. The Search & Send service was developed in conjunction with …
Tagged: personal technology