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Gates looks back on 30 years at Microsoft
Insight Preparing to step down as Microsoft chairman, Bill Gates discusses how Microsoft grew to its present stature and the challenges that lie ahead.
Tags: Business applications, Operating systems, Microsoft Corp., IBM Corp., Bill Gates, Microsoft Windows 7, software, interactive TV, co-founder, DOS
Windows 95 wiped out last PC competition
News Industry voices recount highlights of Microsoft's journey with each Windows release over the years, as market awaits launch of Windows 7.
Tags: Microsoft Windows, Intel Corp., Operating System, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Windows 7, Sales, e-mail, Microsoft Windows 2000, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Windows 95
Researchers: Attacks on US, Korea sites came from UK
News Vietnamese security firm says denial-of-service attacks originated from the United Kingdom, contrary to speculation that North Korea was the culprit.
Tags: Network security, Security Management, PC security, Security, Attack, South Korea, Server, denial of service, researcher, U.S.
Researchers devise way to deny denial-of-service attacks
News Engineers at Auburn University in Alabama have developed a filter that could protect government, commercial and educational servers from being attacked.
Tags: Network security, Business security, IDS (Intrusion Detection Systems), Authentication, Computer, network, Filter Value, Cloud Computing, distributed denial of service, Server
Norton Ghost 2003
Product Reviews Norton Ghost 2003
Tags: Norton Co., Acronis, Storage, USB, hard drive, DOS, Microsoft Windows, disk
Monitoring staff e-mail and Internet: Dos and don'ts
News Should you be keeping an eye on the inboxes of your workers or not? Here are dos and don'ts for monitoring staff e-mail and Internet usage.
Tags: E-mail servers, E-mail clients, Security implementation/standards, Web sites, IT Governance, Communications, Staff E-mail, Malware, compliance, e-mail
Spam offers to let people use their PC to attack Obama site
News Regardless of your political leanings it's unwise to fall for the spam.
Tags: Spam and phishing, Malware, Spam, Attack, computer, e-mail, denial of service, DOS, Web Site, Web
High-risk Internet server exploit goes wild
News An active Bind 9 exploit that a hacker could use to crash Internet servers is in wide circulation, according to the Internet Systems Consortium.
Tags: Data security, Network security, Security Management, Security, Exploit, DNS Server, BIND, Server, DNS, DOS
Virtual PC for Windows
Product Reviews Virtual PC for Windows
Tags: Microsoft Virtual PC, Virtual Machine, Connectix Corp., operating system, VPC, hard drive, Microsoft Windows XP, DOS, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Windows 98
Norton SystemWorks 2003
Product Reviews Norton SystemWorks 2003
Tags: Norton Co., Norton SystemWorks, antivirus, Norton Utilities, defragmenter, Symantec Norton AntiVirus, Norton SystemWorks 2003, SystemWorks 2003, Default Configuration, DOS
Acrobat 9 crashes with malformed URLs
News Researcher able to crash the document reader by pointing to URL with a specific string of characters.
Tags: Security, Business applications, Microsoft Windows Vista, exploit code, mailing list, denial of service, DOS, Adobe Acrobat, Microsoft Windows, researcher
Estonia posts its cybersecurity strategy
News Report seeks to establish good cybersecurity practices within the country while urging global condemnation of all cybersecurity threats in the future.
Tags: Security, Cybersecurity, Attack, Information Security, denial of service, food, information system, DOS, bank, blog
Cisco warns of flaws in wireless LAN controllers
News The flaws could be used to launch denial-of-service attacks or to give attackers administrative privileges, networking company says.
Tags: Network security, Wireless LANs, Network administration/implementation, Cisco Systems Inc., Vulnerability, Wireless, Cisco Catalyst, Flaw, Wireless LANs, WLAN
Update Windows scripts using these handy PowerShell commands
Techguide It may be time to upgrade batch files to PowerShell for automating the role of administering a Windows Server.
Tags: Microsoft Windows, Server platforms, Microsoft Windows PowerShell, batch file, Computer, remote server, Server, Microsoft Windows Server 2008, Microsoft Windows Server, Microsoft Windows
Botnet worm in DOS attacks wipe data on infected PCs
News Bots responsible for denial-of-service attacks on U.S. and Korean sites have instructions to wipe data, but so far there have been no reports of that happening.
Tags: Viruses and worms, PC security, Data security, Security, Worm, Washington Post Co., IP, Attack, South Korea, e-mail
