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23rd May 2007 Archive

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  • IBM, HP dominate server market

    Sales lull has ended

    IBM squeaked by Hewlett-Packard to maintain its top position in worldwide server revenue during the first quarter this year, according to a new report. Technology research firm Gartner said today, while both companies relied on an x86 server sales rebound from the fourth quarter of 2006, IBM enjoyed a 14.3 per cent boost of …

    Enterprise 23 May 2007, 02:44

  • Microsoft and Juniper pledge to simplify NAC

    Network Access Control made easier

    Juniper Networks and Microsoft want to ease the burden on the tired souls tasked with deploying network access control in the enterprise, announcing plans to make Juniper's Unified Access Control (UAC) interoperate with Microsoft's Network Access Protection (NAP). Under an alliance announced at the Interop trade show in Las …

    PC Builder 23 May 2007, 06:34

  • Torrent overflows Opera

    Browser maker lances file download bug

    Opera has fixed a flawed involving how its browser handles Torrent files that allowed hackers to attack vulnerable systems. A boundary error in handling certain types of Torrent files exposed version 9.x of the browser to a stack-based buffer overflow, providing a user right-clicks a malicious Torrent entry in the transfer …

    Software & Security 23 May 2007, 10:49

  • Abbey online banking takes 24-hour lie down

    Money marooned

    Abbey, the banking group, has been having problems with its website, which has left customers unable to administer their accounts for more than 24 hours. An Abbey spokeswoman told The Register that the problems were not security-related, and had been caused by maintenance and upgrade work. The bank sent us this statement: We …

    Software & Security 23 May 2007, 13:13

  • Drive-by Wi-Fi 'thief' heavily fined

    Michigan man busted for failing to buy coffee

    A Michigan man who parked outside a local Wi-Fi cafe every day to check his email has been fined $400 and sentenced to 40 hours' community service. Sam Peterson can consider himself unfortunate since if he'd simply popped into the Re-Union Street Cafe in Sparta, Michigan, for a coffee while checking his email he'd have avoided …

    Software & Security 23 May 2007, 16:22

  • House taunts Senate with anti-spyware bill

    Bueller? Bueller? Bueller?

    The US House of Representatives has passed an anti-spyware bill, but the measure must be passed by the Senate before it becomes law. The Senate does not currently have anti-spyware legislation in front of it. The bill passed by a voice vote in the House this week is a less radical law than some of the alternative proposals …

    Software & Security 23 May 2007, 16:52

  • Network security vulns keep sysadmins busy

    Can't parse that

    Sysadmins can look forward to clocking some overtime this week after Cisco warned of flaws in how its core operating system handles malformed Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) traffic. Several types of SSL messages (such as ClientHello and ChangeCipherSpec), when malformed, can crash vulnerable appliances running IOS, which are …

    Software & Security 23 May 2007, 18:02

  • IBM builds alliance to tackle 32nm design

    Impacted with Chartered and Samsung

    IBM is teaming up with four other chipmakers to develop manufacturing technologies for semiconductors that shrink the average circuit feature to 32 nanometers. The alliance, which is aimed at containing the spiraling cost of building bleeding-edge chips, also involves Chartered Semiconductor, Samsung Electronics, Infineon …

    IT Channel 23 May 2007, 19:50

  • NetApp profits up, forecast down

    Punished by March and investors

    Strong sales led Network Appliance fourth-quarter profits higher 51 per cent over the same period last year. Despite such a solid haul in Q4, the company expects a sales slump to lower revenue sequentially in the current quarter. The network storage supplier reported $89.6m in Q4 income, compared to last year's 59.2m. Sales …

    Enterprise 23 May 2007, 23:41

  • Cisco and RSA work on recipe for SAN encryption

    Security heaven without all the seams

    Capitalizing on the spate of embarrassing data breaches over the past year, Cisco Systems and RSA/EMC are working together to make it easier for organizations to encrypt confidential information by integrating technologies that currently sold separately. The companies will combine Cisco's Storage Media Encryption, which …

    PC Builder 23 May 2007, 23:48

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