Jim Wagner

Blogger.com, a popular Web site for online personal journals, was hacked Friday morning, causing the site to go offline for several hours. According to Evan Williams, Blogger.com president and CEO, the hacker used a known vulnerability in Linux Red Hat to bypass the company’s security measures, though he said he doesn’t think the attacker was […]

Tuesday evening’s distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack on the 13 copies of the U.S. root server should serve as a warning to every company employing DNS, said the inventor of the technology Wednesday. Paul Mockapetris, who was one of the primary architects on the DNS project and currently serves as chief scientist at Nominum, […]

Jon Larimore, president of Washington, D.C., metro Internet service provider ZZAPP!, faces the same problem every provider around the world faces — allowing access to legitimate mass-marketed e-mail for his customers. “Our problem is that in our attempts to comply with our subscribers’ firm desire for spam-free mailboxes, however selective the spam blocking system being […]

A performance-boosting feature found in Microsoft’s Internet Explorer 5.5 and 6 has opened up nine vulnerabilities that can leave a user’s PC wide open for remote exploit, according to the company that found the breach earlier this month. Previous IE versions, as well as IE 6.1 are unaffected by the flaw, said officials at GreyMagic […]

Web vandalism is on the rise around the world, underscoring the shoddy state of affairs in IT security, according to the owner of a Web site that tracks such information. In the past two weeks, Zone-H.org proprietor Roberto Preatoni said defacements have increased to more than 500 separate attacks a day and more than 1,500 […]

Cisco Systems bought up network security firm Psionic Software of Austin, Texas, on Tuesday, shoring up the equipment giant’s network security portfolio on the same day it announced plans to cater to small- to medium-sized businesses (SMBs). The deal, valued up to $12 million dollars, moves the eight-man security software company into the Cisco virtual […]

Adobe Systems officials say they have closed the loop in e-documentation with three server products announced Monday. The Adobe Form Server, Workflow Server and Central Output Server are expected to dramatically decrease a businesses paper flow and improve efficiency. Officials said the equipment, available in rack mount or standalone form, would be available to the […]

Through the 1990s, executives listened to their IT department heads explain why the company needed PDAs and other high-tech gadgets distributed throughout the workforce to improve “workplace efficiencies.” For those that bought into the promises of the mobile worker, the promised efficiencies didn’t exactly deliver what they were expecting, according to mobile computer analyst Matt […]

Sprint PCS unrolled new pricing plans for its business and resident digital wireless phone service Friday, aimed at hitting the early holiday season shoppers and boosting sales of its 3G data service. Customers who sign up today for the entry level ($30 to $60 a month) plans will receive unlimited night and weekend calls, while […]

Popular IP video-on-demand movie provider Intertainer is shutting down its Web site Oct. 23 and cutting more than half its staff while it tries to re-negotiate its distribution deals with four movie studios, officials announced Thursday. Intertainer chairman and CEO Jonathan Taplin told internetnews.com he would put the site back online after AOL Time Warner […]

Sony Ericsson wants to get its phones talking with Palm -driven devices better, announcing Thursday its intention to optimize Bluetooth between the two for out-of-the-box compatibility. Bluetooth, the wireless standard used for short-range data communications, is expected to fuel the drive for more interoperability between digital wireless phones and devices like PDAs. One example officials […]

Bank of America has officially hit the 21st Century with a contract announced Wednesday by Sprint officials. The 10-year deal basically revamps the financial organization’s entire network, which until today ran on OC-3 network pipes throughout its banking subsidiaries located throughout the U.S. According to David Gunasegaram, a Sprint spokesperson, the deal is more than […]