Sean Michael Kerner

Linux vendors are getting on a new, wider page about Linux standards. Mandrakesoft, Progeny, Connectiva and TurboLinux have launched the Linux Core Consortium (LCC) with the goal of implementing the specifications of a standardized Linux. The group also has the support of CA, HP, Red Hat, Sun and Novell, among others. The effort is seen […]

Security firm Secunia posted a new advisory today warning users about a pair of vulnerabilities in a fully patched version of Microsoft’s Windows XP running Service Pack 2 (SP2). But Microsoft , for its part, criticized the alert, saying the vulnerability was not properly disclosed through the appropriate channels. The vulnerabilities pointed out by Secunia […]

IPv6 , the next generation Internet protocol, has successfully undergone the third phase of a test regimen across a test network known as Moonv6. Phase 3 of Moonv6 testing began on October 30th at University of New Hampshire’s InterOperability Laboratory (NH-IOL) and was concluded on Nov 12th by the U.S. Defense Department’s Joint Interoperability Test […]

Mondays are the busiest day to shop online during the holidays, according to research from Atlas DMT. But according to CyberSource, it doesn’t matter to fraudsters which day of the week it is. The firm says U.S. ecommerce will lose $2.6 billion to online fraud this year. In its “2004 Online Holiday Shopping Patterns Revealed,” […]

Two new studies show Microsoft is now leading both the embedded operating system category as well as in PDAs. According to statistics by research firm Gartner , Microsoft’s Windows CE was the leading operating system for PDA deployments in the third quarter of 2004. This marks the first time that Microsoft has beat perennial PDA […]

After months of preparation and trepidation, Sarbanes-Oxley arrives Monday for U.S. publicly traded companies. The result has been a boon for some IT vendors and a headache for regulated companies, but storage vendors say there may be a silver lining for end users in the form of better business practices. Monday is the day that […]

If your company hosts its e-mail outside of your organization, you’ve joined a fast-growing club. A new study from research firm Radicati Group found that hosted e-mail is growing at a faster pace than in-sourced e-mail. The firm estimated that more than two thirds (67 percent) of all e-mail accounts are hosted. In that total, […]

ICANN’s new domain transfer policy that starts Friday is intended to provide greater security and portability to the domain transfer process and protect against “domain slamming.” But some registrars argue that the new policy by the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers could actually raise risks of fraudulent domain transfers and are advising customers […]

With a new development platform and Motorola as a customer win, Trolltech is upping the ante in the embedded Linux stakes. Trolltech is best known for its qt cross-platform software development framework for the desktop, which is the underpinning of the KDE Linux desktop. This week Trolltech released a new version of its Qtopia user […]

Microsoft issued a patch for a vulnerability in its server software that could allow an attacker to spoof trusted Internet content. As part of its monthly cycle of patch release Tuesday, the company said the SecurityBulletin covered its Internet Security and Acceleration Server 2000 (ISA Server) and Microsoft Proxy Server 2.0. Both are edge of […]

It’s time to face Doom yet again. The latest MyDoom virus variant is once again running amok across the Internet, according to reports from security firms. The latest version of the worm is referred to as W32/Mydoom.ah@MM, or Mydoom.ah. The latest MyDoom variant takes advantage of the recently publicized Microsoft Internet Explorer IFRAME buffer overflow […]

The Mozilla Foundation announced today the official release of Firefox 1.0, its much-hyped open source alternative to Microsoft’s ubiquitous Internet Explorer (IE) Web browser. The Mozilla Firefox 1.0 release does not contain any significant feature enhancements beyond the previous versions, which, according to the Mozilla Foundation, was downloaded more than 8 million times. The 1.0 […]