Craig Burton

It looks like some consolidation of management technologies is starting. It will be interesting to see what BMC does with Marimba.

BMC to buy Marimba for $239 million
Management software maker BMC Software Inc. will spend $239 million to buy configuration software developer Marimba Inc., the companies announced Thursday.

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I liked Steve Gillmor’s comments about RSS:

The advent of the blogosphere and RSS has provided both a filter for information and a low-barrier mechanism for empowering the direct participants in a conversation.
RSS is difficult to describe, and even more difficult to give up. For me, it’s the conversation that keeps me coming back for [...]

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It looks like yesterdays big scare about a universal flaw in TCP is being overblown.
CNet:

Widespread reports about a flawed communications protocol making the Internet vulnerable to collapse were overblown, according to the researcher credited with uncovering the security problem.
“The actual threat to the Internet is really small right now,” Watson said on Wednesday. “You [...]

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AP reports:

The flaw affecting the Internet’s “tranmission control protocol,” or TCP, was discovered late last year by a computer researcher in Milwaukee, Paul “Tony” Watson, 36, who said he identified a method to reliably trick personal computers and routers into shutting down electronic conversations by resetting the machines remotely.
Watson plans to give a presentation Thursday [...]

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Steve Gillmore expounds on RSS and critisizm of his view that RSS has reached a “tipping point:”

The emancipation of Web authoring has already democratized information publishing. In turn, RSS provides a mechanism to liberate the other end of the pub sub collaboration. When subscribers can harness the aggregated authority of the feeds and items they [...]

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VeriSign Issues Alert on Massive New Worm Targetting SSL Servers“At this point, we can report that we are seeing a statistical deviation in normal traffic patterns, and we have identified multiple exploits in the wild,” said Karen McGuirk, media relations specialist for VeriSign. “Although these exploits have not materialized into a worm, with the information [...]

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CNet reports:

The number of “phishing” e-mails circulating on the Web has increased from 279 to 215,643 over the past six months, according to e-mail security company MessageLabs.
This is a scary technology:

According to the APWG’s Web site, the new attack targeted Citibank customers at the end of March. “This sophisticated new attack automatically detects the [...]

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Mary Jo Foley reports about vulnerability rumors:

Rumors are swirling about possible “super exploits” that could target several of the Windows vulnerabilities unveiled by Microsoft last week. The Internet Storm Center at The SANS Institute have issued a warning.
Eweek sez:

The four patches were included in Microsoft’s monthly scheduled release of patches for security problems and addressed [...]

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Last week’s fixes from Microsoft has prompted a lot of critisism. There is also a report to be released by Foundstone that compares the vulnerability of Windows to Linux:

While Microsoft last week had a lot of explaining to do, anyone who thinks its operating systems are worse in terms of vulnerabilities than say, Linux, is [...]

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Mary Jo Foley takes the Windows client team to task about new releases of Windows. Some of which–like XP SP2–will be released as patches:

I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again: The Windows client team needs to stop the waffling and the double speak. It’s just not true that there are no Windows releases [...]

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