News podcast: Network World 360 VMware goes open source with desktop virtualization release, IBM building 20-petaflop machine to secure nuclear stockpile and more. (6:35) New Firefox release fixes critical security bugs Mozilla developers released the latest version of their Firefox browser Tuesday, version 3.0.6, which fixes several security bugs in the software. Extreme adds 10Gig switch for data centers Extreme Networks has joined the push for 10 Gigabit data center networks. The company has started shipping the Summit X650, a 32-port stackable switch designed to fit in server racks and interconnect either fast servers ... Removing admin rights stymies 92% of Microsoft's bugs Nine of out 10 critical bugs reported by Microsoft last year could have been made moot, or at least made less dangerous, if people ran Windows without administrative rights, a developer of enterprise rights management ... Social Engineering: Anatomy of a Hack As the founder of Lares, a Colorado-based security consultancy, social-engineering expert Chris Nickerson is often asked by clients to conduct penetration testing of their on-sight security. Nickerson leads a team which ... How Akamai Shrinks the World for SAP Users Sevcik and Wetzel: Remember the old FedEx package delivery slogan, "When it absolutely, positively has to get there overnight"? Well, on-time delivery is important when you're dealing with SAP over the Internet, but distance and congestion get in the way. Not long ago we had a chance to model the effect Akamai's Web Application Accelerator (formerly Netli) has on Web-enabled SAP applications, and the results look pretty good. It's tough to keep bad vendor news secret, if the potential buyer is willing to use Google Monash: Seth Grimes has a blog post sighing that companies with good technology can have business problems, making it a bad idea to buy their products. The post refers to unnamed "Company X" and "Company Y." Seth conceals the names so as not to embarrass the companies in question. However, it's pretty clear which outfits he means. |
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