Craig Burton

CA Announces Vulnerability Detection Service, Appliance
LAS VEGASóComputer Associates International Inc. on Tuesday will announce a new subscription-based vulnerability detection and remediation service, along with a new vulnerability management appliance. The new offerings are a part of the company’s effort to move more deeply into security, particularly the security management market, officials said.
CA’s eTrust [...]

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Bill Gates gave a talk to CEOs recently and brought up blogging and RSS.

They all heard Gates describe blogs and RSS feeds as tools that “make it very easy to communicate” with customers, suppliers and employees.
 Joshua Allen, the first Microsoft blogger– gives his perspective.

When I first started blogging, the climate was not very favorable toward ìunedited [...]

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More licensing going on:

Shavlik Technologies announced they have entered into partnering agreements with NetIQ and ENDFORCE. The two companies will incorporate Shavlik’s HFNetChkPRO patch management software into their respective enterprise solutions.
ENDFORCE will integrate the tool into its ENDFORCE Enterprise management solution.
NetIQ will re-brand the tool as NetIQ Patch Manager and integrate the product into [...]

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Wayne Rash–Infoworld columnist–rants about patching and the recent Sasser virus:

Thereís not much to be done for a company that refuses to spend the money or allocate the resources to keep its networks safe. Perhaps at some point the directors of these companies will find out their equity has been wasted by poor management, and if [...]

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New Netsky Worm Poses as a Cure for Sasser
Sophos warns users not to fall for confidence trick, as Netsky author claims he is the creator of the Sasser worm.
Virus researchers at Sophos have warned users that a new in-the-wild worm, Netsky-AC (W32/Nestky-AC), is posing as a cure for the fast-spreading Sasser worm.
Attached to emails generated [...]

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An AFP article sez:

Sampo, Finland’s third largest bank, closed its 130 branch offices across the country to prevent the Sasser Internet worm from infecting its systems.
“We decided to close our offices as a precaution, since we knew that our virus protection hadn’t been updated,” Sampo spokesman Hannu Vuola told AFP on Monday.
Donna comments:

They need to [...]

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