Sean Michael Kerner

As instant messaging and peer to peer use continues to proliferate the enterprise, so do the threats that come with them. To that end, FaceTime communications today launched a pair of initiatives and a new product upgrade to stem the tide and secure P2P and IM for corporate use. The FaceTime Instant Response Security Team […]

Novell today announced Linux Desktop 9, its first corporate enterprise Linux desktop product. Powered by its SUSE Linux subsidiary, Linux Desktop 9 includes the usual suspects of the Linux desktop, including Mozilla’s Firefox Web browser, the Gaim instant messaging client, the Novell Ximian Evolution Groupware client and the OpenOffice.org office suite. The OpenOffice.org (OOo) version […]

Red Hat’s community Linux project released Fedora Core 3 today. Fedora Core 3, codenamed Heidelberg, is loaded with the latest versions of many open source applications and represents the bleeding edge of Red Hat’s Linux efforts. Fedora Core 3 (FC3) improves upon features included in Fedora Core 2, including the latest versions of SELinux and […]

In an effort to stem the spread of software patents in Europe, the Open Source Risk Management (OSRM) group has begun documenting the sources of innovation claimed by such patents. The project is an explicit effort to counter the concerns voiced by officials in Munich, Germany over about 50 Linux-related patents. Munich, considered the poster […]

The RSS syndication format has spread like wildfire through the Internet, permeating most news sites and virtually all blogs. Now there’s a new aspect of RSS ready to enjoy the same popularity. Called RSS enclosures, they’re the next step in the RSS revolution and hold great potential. One of the uses of enclosures is “podcasting,” […]

Linux cluster vendor Linux Networx has released the Xilo scalable clustered storage system. Combining management software, scalable file systems and storage devices, Xilo pools capacity from multiple storage devices into a single resource to distribute large files. “It’s most like a NAS , or call it a RAID if you like, except that the file […]

Researchers have noted three vulnerabilities that could expose Microsoft Internet Explorer (IE) users to the risk of potential attack from malicious users. Late Tuesday, German Security Researcher Benjamin Tobias Franz reported a URL spoofing bug with iframes in IE. When exploited, the bug permits a faked target address to be shown in the status bar […]

New research from Web analytics firm WebSideStory said usage of Microsoft’s dominant Internet Explorer (IE) has dropped slightly. WebSideStory found that IE use declined by 2.62 percentage points (for all versions) between June 4th 2004 and Oct 29th 2004. By contrast, the aggregate of all Netscape and Mozilla variants gained a positive 2.48 percent from […]

UPDATED: From the early days of Howard Dean’s online fund-raising success in his Democratic presidential run to the rise of influential political Webloggers, 2004 ranks as a standout year for the Internet’s impact on politics — so far at least. Perhaps the best symbol of the Internet’s impact came through bloggers on the political process. […]

MontaVista Software and NEC Electronics today announced a new partnership to extend the Linux into consumer electronic devices. Under the terms of the new partnership, NEC Electronics will use MontaVista Linux in its digital consumer, mobile phone and car navigation systems. The company will also become a reseller of MontaVista Linux and join the MontaVista […]

In what it’s calling the largest technology release in its history, Wind River today announced a new development suite, three market-specific platforms (MSP), one general-purpose platform and its first Linux platform. Wind River Platform for Network Equipment, Linux Edition, is based on the 2.6 Linux Kernel and includes Carrier Grade Linux (CGL) features. The new […]

A week after releasing a new version of its Apache 1.3.x Web Server, the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) has released a new point upgrade. According to the 1.3.33 changelog, the new point version includes a fix for CAN-2004-0940, which is a bug in the mod_include module. Essentially it’s a potential buffer overflow that could allow […]