1st July 2005 Archive

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Red Hat milks corporate Linux sales for strong Q1

Subscriptions look solid

A bustling enterprise Linux business carried Red Hat to improved first quarter results. The software maker reported revenue of $60.8m in the period - a solid 46 per cent jump over $41.8m in the same quarter one year ago. Red Had enjoyed a slight increase in services and embedded OS revenue, while subscriptions to its corporate …

IT Channel 1 Jul 2005, 05:16
Rats in the security world

Let's start with email

Not too long ago my wife and I decided to try out a Chinese restaurant in our area we had never visited before. I was looking at the menu and my wife gasped, then laughed a bit. I looked up and she pointed out a rat crawling right under the restaurant's buffet table. I got the waitress's attention and pointed out the rat to …

Software & Security 1 Jul 2005, 06:02
Why is Oracle really buying TimesTen?

Comment Standing in the way of Progress

You may have seen that Oracle is buying TimesTen. The question is why? Is it because it thinks that TimesTen has great database technology? Hardly: Oracle does not exactly have a reputation for recognising database technologies other than its own. Then is it perhaps because Oracle thinks that it is worth harvesting the …

Software & Security 1 Jul 2005, 10:34
Malware authors up the ante

As half life of unprotected Windows PC drops to 12 minutes

Malware authors have increased both the volume and sophistication of their attacks over the last six months. In the first half of 2005 anti-virus firm Sophos detected and protected against 7,944 new viruses - up 59 per cent from the first six months of 2004. The number of keylogging Trojans has tripled in the first six months of …

Software & Security 1 Jul 2005, 10:54
Judge bans company's deceptive anti-spyware claims

Did not do what it said on the tin

The Federal Trade Commission in the US has won an preliminary injunction against Trustsoft, freezing the company's assets and preventing it from making deceptive claims about its anti-spyware product. A district court judge in Texas issued the order, which the FTC is seeking to have made permanent. The FTC alleges that …

Software & Security 1 Jul 2005, 14:51
LLU to take-off despite 'painful year'

Watchdog rubs crystal ball

The UK could be about to witness a "dramatic" explosion in local loop unbundling (LLU) despite a somewhat "painful" progress over the last year, according to the Office of the Telecoms Adjudicator (OTA). So far there are some 70,000 unbundled lines in the UK with numbers growing by around 3,000 a week. But the OTA reports that …

Software & Security 1 Jul 2005, 14:51
Reverse engineering patches making disclosure a moot choice?

Darned if you do. Darned if you don't

When Microsoft released limited information on a critical vulnerability in Internet Explorer last month, reverse engineer Halvar Flake decided to dig deeper. Using his company's tool for analyzing the differences in the patched and unpatched versions of a program, Flake pinpointed the portable networked graphics (PNG) …

Software & Security 1 Jul 2005, 15:04
IBM UK mainframe workers train their South African replacements

Exclusive Do high-profile users know they went South?

If you're one of IBM UK's highly skilled mainframe specialists, then you may well be out of a job. IBM has shuffled a huge chunk of its mainframe support operations off to South Africa in a bid to cut costs. As a result, some of IBM's highest profile customers will find their critical mainframe support calls traveling south to a …

IT Channel 1 Jul 2005, 16:03
Microsoft uses $850m to kiss and make up with IBM

Well puckered

Microsoft and IBM can be friends again - or at least less bitter partners/rivals after Redmond agreed to hand over an $850m antitrust apology. Microsoft will pay IBM $775m and dole out a $75m software credit. These gifts stem from Microsoft's antitrust trial in which IBM was deemed to have been unfairly punished by Microsoft's …

Software & Security 1 Jul 2005, 16:44