Inside SQL Server 2008 - VisualStudio Magazine

Microsoft released to manufacturing SQL Server 2008 in August, a mere three years after the previous release. I know some say that three years is too short a period to release a major upgrade to server software, but many people, including me, are

Recent site compromises highlight arrival of Web application security - Thetech Herald
Everyone, from IBM to the IC3, in the 2008 security trends and reporting all agree, the Web as you know it was single largest avenue of attack in 2008. More than a million Web pages were compromised, leading to the spread of Malware, personal

Microsoft Baseline Security Analyzer 2.1 Beta - PC Advisor

Analyze your Windows system for common security misconfigurations. The Microsoft Baseline Security Analyzer scans for missing hotfixes and bugs in Office 2000, Office XP, and Internet Explorer 5.01 that’s running on Windows 2000 or XP. You can run

Minimum Windows Requirements - NFL
Pentium III 1GHz or higher or equivalent AMD processor with a minimum of 512MB of memory One of the following operating systems, Windows 98 Second Edition, Windows 2000, Windows ME, Windows XP, or Windows Media Center Edition Microsoft Internet

New Windows offers similar experience to milestones with some - DailyTech
With Windows 7 scheduled to hit retailers mid-to-late 2009, Microsoft has been working in a frenzy to prepare for its launch. It bumped up the development schedule for Windows Vista’s second service pack, airing its beta early this month . Windows 7

Internet Explorer: How safe is it? - Houston Chronicle
Microsoft is famous for issuing security-related fixes to Windows and its software applications on the second Tuesday of each month, a day that’s come to be known with near-affection as Patch Tuesday. Occasionally, though, the company will issue

No doubt about this: Hope floats for Miami Dolphins - Miami Herald
Coach Tony Sparano and other Dolphins discuss how they’ve come back from being losers last year to division winners in 2008. Everywhere but inside the joyous Dolphins locker room Sunday, the immediate prevailing thought was that Miami’s miraculous

First Look At Windows 7 Beta 1 - Tech.slashdot.org
The other A. N. Other writes “It seems that Microsoft couldn’t keep the lid on Windows 7 beta 1 until the new year. By now, several news outlets have their hands on the beta 1 code and have posted screenshots and information about this build. ZDNet’s

The Digital Home - CNET News
Windows 7 will hit store shelves sometime next year. And if I had to guess exactly when it would happen, November 2 would be my answer. Yes, I know that Microsoft has said that it plans on releasing Windows 7 by early 2010 and there has been no

Windows XP pauses again in its shuffle out the door - Beta News
Microsoft is making an accommodation through a flexible inventory program that will allow distributors to place their final orders by January 31, 2009 and take delivery against those orders through May 30, 2009. This is not an extension of sales

Get Windows 7’s features on your Vista or XP PC - Techradar.com
Microsoft’s CEO Steve Ballmer recently told the world that “Windows 7 will be Vista, but a lot better.” That sounds great, unless you bought Windows Vista believing that it was ‘a lot better’ than your version of XP and just found out that you may

Read all ‘SQL Server’ posts in Security - CNET News
Microsoft is investigating reports of a flaw that could allow someone to remotely execute code on a system running certain versions of SQL Server. “Microsoft is aware that exploit code has been published on the Internet for the vulnerability

Web Host ehostpros Launches Web Hosting Services in India

Web host ehostpros has launched web hosting services in India, it was reported recently. The company offers a range of Linux and Windows hosting options including personal web hosting and dedicated server hosting alongside services such as domain name…

iland Internet Solutions Signs a License for Colocation at CRG West’s Wilshire Annex Data Center in Los Angeles
iland Internet Solutions has signed a license for colocation at CRG West?s Wilshire Annex Data Center in Los Angeles, USA, it was reported recently. iland, which bills itself as a ?global provider of hosted Cloud services, high availability VMware VI…

Upcoming Technology Events in January

1/5/2009-1/9/2009MacWorld 2009 San Francisco Moscone CenterSan FranciscoCalifornia USAWebsiteThe annual Macworld Conference & Expo is a five day event offering expert advice, demonstrations and instruction on all aspects of Mac technologies. The event…

Web Host The Planet Selects EdgeCast
Web host The Planet has selected EdgeCast Networks as its partner for its new hosted Content Delivery Network (CDN) offering. EdgeCast offers a rich media offering that enables customers to initiate and control their own CDN without ?expensive capital…

Web Host Host Color Offers SEO Tips on WordPress
Web host Host Color (http://www.hostcolor.com) is offering SEO tips on the WordPress blogging solution, it was announced recently. The company, which bills itself as a ?provider of quality web hosting services? is adding the tips to its corporate blog….

Web Host SiteGround Gets Social
Web host SiteGround is getting social, recent reports have suggested. The company has created a ?fan page? on Facebook and opened a ?Twitter? account as a means of keeping in contact with customers. According to SiteGround, both social networks ?offer…

Web Host The Planet Announces Server Promotion
Web host The Planet has announced a server promotion, it was reported recently. The company, which bills itself as ?the global leader in IT hosting?, is running a ?three-day-only promotion? on Intel Pentium D950 servers starting December 22, 2008 to…

Web Host USONYX and R1Soft Partner
Web host USONYX (http://www.usonyx.net) and R1Soft have partnered, it was announced recently. USONYX, which bills itself as ?Asia?s leading broadband web hosting provider?, will offer R1Soft Continuous Data Protection (CDP) as part of its premium managed…

Xtraordinary Hosting Caters to UniversalPoster.com
Web host Xtraordinary Hosting (http://www.xtrahost.co.uk) caters for the hosting requirements of UniversalPoster.com, it was reported recently. UniversalPoster offers official celebrity photos and posters with personalized messages in ?an exact digital…

Second .ME Domain Auction Announced
A second auction of domain names bearing the .ME extension has been announced, it was reported recently. Five ?.ME? domains - Contact.ME, Read.ME, Feed.ME, Alert.ME, and Save.ME - will be made available through live auction at the DOMAINfest Global ?09…

Web Host iMergent Adjusts Quarterly Dividend
Web host iMergent (AMEX:IIG) has adjusted its quarterly dividend, it was reported recently. The dividend is payable on January 20, 2009 and has been reduced from $0.11 a share to $0.02 a share. “In light of the current volatility in the financial markets,…

Web Host WebFaction Now Using Nginx as Front Web Server
Web host WebFaction is now using Nginx as its Front Web Server, the company announced recently. According to the company, ?Nginx is lighter, faster and more scalable than Apache? and can serve ?up to 12,000 requests per second even with thousands of…

Where Stunts and Strategy Collide - Wall Street Journal

As the Super Bowl nears, Weatherproof Garment Co. is hoping to use the big game’s hefty advertising price tag — about $3 million for 30 seconds — along with the recession, to draw attention to itself. Weatherproof is proposing to divvy up a single

Trademark Protection Underway For .TEL Domain - InternetNews.com
Trademark holders, heads up. Another top level domain (TLD) is getting closer to launch and your mark could be at risk – or in the sweet spot in what’s been dubbed the phone book for the mobile Web. From December 3, 2008 until February 2, 2009

Web Host MochaHost.com Offers Season Promotions and Gift E-cards

Web host MochaHost.com is offering a number of seasonal promotions and ?Gift E-cards?, it was announced recently. The promotions include 6 months of free hosting, 2 free domain names, and a free sitebuilder for those purchasing the company?s Business…

CrystalTech Web Hosting Launches New VPS Plans
CrystalTech Web Hosting has launched new VPS plans, it was reported recently. To kick off the plans the company (a Newtek Business Services, Inc. company; NASDAQ:NEWT) is offering favorable prices until January 31, 2009. According to the company, its…

SC Magazine Australia/NZ  >  Staff Writers - Securecomputing.net.au

Microsoft readies emergency fix for Internet Explorer bug New zero-day Internet Explorer exploit uncovered iPhone porn on the up Internet Explorer zero-day infection rates grow Firefox tops app vulnerability list Popular porn site hacked by prudes

New DNS changing malware detected - Securecomputing.net.au
Trend Micro has detected a new DNS changing form of malware which poisons other hosts on the local subnet installing a rogue Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP}server on the network. Technical Communications spokesperson JM Hipolito explained

160,000 Users Affected by CheckFree Domain Hijacking - Softpedia
In a data breach notification sent to the Office of Privacy Protection in Wisconsin, as required by law, CheckFree estimates that as much as 160,000 customers might have been affected in early December, when their domain names were hijacked. We

VeriSign, NeuStar and others team on DNS security - Computerworld Australia
Momentum continues to build for rapid deployment of DNS encryption mechanisms. Seven leading domain name vendors — representing more than 112 million domain names or 65 percent of all registered domain names — have formed an industry coalition to

Firefox patches address three critical vulnerabilities - Beta News
Internet Explorer is apparently not the only browser this week that’s the subject of preventative measures, as Mozilla revealed this morning that the real reason for issuing Firefox 3.0.5 was to prevent a possible wave of page hijacks. While version

How to Setup a VPN in Windows Vista: The Client - Datamation
Last month in part one of our two-part article on setting up a Virtual Private Network through Windows Vista, we walked you through configuring the VPN host . The Host system is the computer that listens for a remote connection and is either part of

Migrating to cloud computing? Don’t forget DNS - Network World Fusion
The cloud computing model offers the promise of reduced IT operational costs, which may prove appealing in these recessionary times. But before you mothball your data center and start using servers distributed across the ‘Net, you need to rethink

Trusteer Security Researcher Exposes New Three Tier DNS Attack Behind - PR Inside
WHO: Amit Klein is a noted internet security researcher and CTO of Trusteer. He is an expert on DNS, browser, and endpoint security. Mr. Klein has discovered and reported several high profile DNS vulnerabilities. Prior to Trusteer he was Chief

Lose your Time Warner Internet connection (again)? You could try Open - Los Angeles Times Blogs
If you live in Greater Los Angeles and are fed up with Time Warner Cable, there’s probably not much you can do about it (unless you’re the L.A. city attorney, in which case you can sue ). The frequent outages, slow customer service and small number

Sony’s PlayStation Home hacked - Techradar.com
Sony’s PS3 virtual world, Home, has already been hacked, with developers having discovered ways to exploit vulnerabilities within the software’s code. According to reports in the Telegraph this week, the hack allowed the developers “to customise

‘Shockers’ in Cisco’s Year-End Security Report - Datamation

Networking giant Cisco today revealed its take on the current state of IT security. The major trends? Vulnerabilities are on the rise, with blended and virtualization attacks becoming increasingly the norm. According to Cisco, as of the end of

White Oak wins 49-27 - Daily News
White Oak senior wrestler Wesley Goldsmith got his wish Tuesday night. With Goldsmith and fellow 2007 state qualifier Terrence Zaleski leading the way, the undefeated Vikings defeated crosstown rival Jacksonville 49-27 in a Mideastern 3-A/4-A

Migrating to cloud computing? Don’t forget DNS - Network World Fusion
The cloud computing model offers the promise of reduced IT operational costs, which may prove appealing in these recessionary times. But before you mothball your data center and start using servers distributed across the ‘Net, you need to rethink

New DNS changing malware detected - Securecomputing.net.au
Trend Micro has detected a new DNS changing form of malware which poisons other hosts on the local subnet installing a rogue Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP}server on the network. Technical Communications spokesperson JM Hipolito explained

Trusteer Security Researcher Exposes New Three Tier DNS Attack Behind - PR Inside
WHO: Amit Klein is a noted internet security researcher and CTO of Trusteer. He is an expert on DNS, browser, and endpoint security. Mr. Klein has discovered and reported several high profile DNS vulnerabilities. Prior to Trusteer he was Chief

Kerry Loftus - Securecomputing.net.au
US military bans USB thumb drives iPhone porn on the up New zero-day Internet Explorer exploit uncovered Popular porn site hacked by prudes Experts investigate ‘Harry Potter hack’ Forecast: Security threats for 2009 Firefox tops app vulnerability

Trademark Protection Underway For .TEL Domain - InternetNews.com

Trademark holders, heads up. Another top level domain (TLD) is getting closer to launch and your mark could be at risk – or in the sweet spot in what’s been dubbed the phone book for the mobile Web. From December 3, 2008 until February 2, 2009

Notify.Me Bursts on the Scene to Offer New Alert Service - PR Inside
Today the .ME Registry and Notify.Me announced the launch of its new and innovative .ME Web site. This unique new service allows anyone to receive near real-time alerts when their favorite Web sites are updated. Alerts can be received in a variety of

NTT America Announces New Web Site for its Enterprise Hosting Business

NTT America, a wholly owned US subsidiary of NTT Communications Corporation, has announced the launch of a new web site specifically designed for enterprises and businesses seeking information on its Enterprise Hosting solutions and capabilities. This…

Web Host Sprocket Networks Announces Dedicated Server Specials
Web host Sprocket Networks has announced a series of ?specials? on dedicated servers, it was reported recently. According to the company, the promotion has come as a response to the current downturn in the global economy, and is a bid to help its customers…

SiteGround Web Hosting Offers Holiday Promotion
SiteGround Web Hosting is offering a promotion for the holiday period, it was reported recently. The promotion allows customers to pass discounts to their ?close ones? and enables ?SiteGround clients the opportunity to buy unlimited number of hosting…

Web Host Superb Internet Corporation Opens New Corporate Headquarters in Honolulu, Hawaii and Brings in new Senior Management Members
Web host Superb Internet Corporation has opened new corporate headquarters in Honolulu, Hawaii and brought in new Senior Management members, it was reported recently. The company, which bills itself as ?one of the oldest and most reputable web hosting…

Managed Web Hosting Provider Fpweb.net Offers SmarterStats Enterprise Edition as Add-on
Managed web hosting provider Fpweb.net is offering the SmarterStats Enterprise Edition as an add-on to its Windows web hosting packages, it was reported recently. The web analytics tool offers website owners ?in-depth statistics? and is available to…

Web Hosting Provider Pronet Hosting Announces New Linux Web Hosting and Linux Reseller Packages
Web hosting provider Pronet Hosting (http://www.pronethosting.net) has announced new Linux web hosting and Linux reseller packages, it was reported recently. The packages feature additional space and bandwidth. According to the company, alongside the…

The Planet Launches Virtual Rack Bundles
The Planet (http://www.theplanet.com), the global leader in IT hosting, recently announced the availability of its new Virtual Rack Solution Bundles, pre-configured solutions for environments with two or more servers. Available in three package types,…

Web Host Secure-24 Now Certified SAP Hosting Partner
based company, which bills itself as ?a leading provider of ERP security, compliance, disaster recovery, application hosting and technical managed services?, gained SAP certification after completing a ?rigorous review process? which ?assessed the company’s…

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