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Researchers to offer tool for hacking Oracle DBes
News During their upcoming presentation at Black Hat and Defcon hacker conferences, security experts will release tool that can be used to break into Oracle databases.
Tags: Business applications, Databases, Vulnerability, Database, Tool, SQL, SQL Injection, e-mail, hacking, Oracle Corp.
Indian outsourcers using slump to get bigger
News Bangalore's IT services companies preparing for next economic upturn by rethinking strategy and hiring more workers, and taking opportunity to boost productivity.
Tags: Business applications, Services, IT training, HCL Technologies, Tata Consultancy Services Ltd., Wipro Technologies, Infosys Technologies Ltd., Outsourcing, India, Outsourcing Company
10 things about Vista's service hardening
Insight Service hardening extends the functionality of existing Windows security mechanisms, such as security identifiers and access control lists, to reduce the level of damage that can be done if a service is compromised.
Tags: Microsoft Windows
McAfee CEO: Adware is killing antivirus blacklisting
News Traditional security products--which employ signature-based blacklisting technology--are no longer effective because of a massive increase in malware, according to McAfee CEO Dave De Walt.
Tags: Antivirus software, Malware, Security, Adware, antivirus, software, Symantec Corp., McAfee Inc., marketing, brand
How to modify a cloned server's security identifier
Techguide Here's a shortcut for when you want to deploy your Windows 2003 Servers. With NewSID, you can clone a base security identifier (SID) and give each new server its own identity.
And the Muzzle goes to...
News The Thomas Jefferson Center for the Protection of Free Expression on Friday released its annual Muzzle Awards, which are awarded "as a means to draw national attention to abridgments of free speech and press and...foster an appreciation for those tenets of the First Amendment."
Oracle password system comes under fire
News Mechanism to secure passwords is weak, making it no challenge for an attacker to recover passwords for Oracle database users, experts warn.
Tags: Security, Authentication and encryption, Security implementation/standards
Kill runaway Oracle processes on Windows with OraKill
Techguide Use Oracle's orakill.exe to kill the Oracle thread, instead of Windows Task Manager which would bring down all users and background threads and crash the database.
Tags: Software, Business applications, Databases
Reorganizing Active Directory
Insight When you need a major AD restructuring, you don’t have to completely throw out your old directory and start from scratch. Instead, you can simply rearrange what you have. This article discusses some ways to reorganize objects within your AD.
Microsoft shakes up CRM sales strategy
News The company is letting many more partners sell its next package of customer relationship management software and will offer it to them at large volume discounts.
India's new rules to boost domestic BPO market
News Business process outsourcing vendors will benefit from relaxed rules on use of call centers in India.
Tags: IT outsourcing, Outsourcing, Offshoring
Static continues for digital television
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TV industry getting serious about "datacasting"
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Mixing modes in Server 2003
Insight tutorial Windows 2000 first introduced modes to let Active Directory work with NT. Here's what you need to know about modes in Windows Server 2003.
Tags: Microsoft Server 2003
Learn the difference between ACLs, DACLs, and SACLs
Insight Just a few of Windows 2000's many security acronyms that can seem TCTBH (Too Confusing To Be Helpful).
