Computerworld articles from September 2005

Computerworld archives from September 2005

Financial services wary of outsourcing key projects: firms fear weakened control and privacy, backlash to job losses.
September 5, 2005... IT managers interviewed last week mostly agreed with a Gartner Inc. prediction that less than 30% of financial services companies will be outsourcing strategic projects by the end of next year. At the Gartner Financial Services Summit here,...

Disaster recovery works for some, but scope of calamity was difficult to prepare for.
September 5, 2005... At 2 a.m. on Aug. 27, two days before Hurricane Katrina devastated the Gulf Coast, Tim Babco grabbed a red binder containing the latest version of SCP Pool Corp.'s disaster recovery plan, put his dog and cat in the car, locked up his house and...

New Orleans tech workers relocate to higher ground and start trying to restore operations.(Hurricane Katrina puts information technology workers to test)
September 5, 2005... IT managers and staffers at New Orleans-based companies worked last week to salvage their systems, data and Web sites, some not knowing whether they still had viable businesses to support or homes that they could return to. [ILLUSTRATION...

Telecommunications slowly improving, but problems remain in new Orleans: vendors unsure when service will be fully restored.(restorement after Hurricane Katrina 2005)
September 5, 2005... CELLULAR and other communications services were gradually improving in the Gulf Coast region late last week, but telecommunications companies said they still couldn't gain access to most parts of New Orleans to make repairs to their networks....

Retailers unsure about status of stores, systems: IT issues take a back seat to concerns about workers, damage and looting.(Hurricane Katrina)
September 5, 2005... THREE OF Burlington Coat Factory Warehouse Corp.'s retail stores in Louisiana, and another one in Alabama, were closed in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina's ravaging of the Gulf Coast. And at midweek, Mike Prince, CIO at the Burlington,...

Flooding complicates relief agency's IT plan.(Hurricane Katrina)(Brief Article)
September 5, 2005... Before Hurricane Katrina struck the Gulf Coast, the American Red Cross made plans to quickly deploy mobile servers, satellite communications equipment and other IT gear in affected areas to support its efforts to help storm victims begin...

Glaxo signs $100M outsourcing pact.(GlaxoSmithKline PLC, Affiliated Computer Services Inc. )(Brief Article)
September 5, 2005... GlaxoSmithKline PLC and Affiliated Computer Services Inc. have signed a five-year, $100 million outsourcing contract. Under the agreement, ACS will provide monitoring and management services for more than 5,000 Unix, Wintel, OS/390 mainframe...

Massachusetts may replace office suite.(AT DEADLINE)(Brief Article)
September 5, 2005... The Massachusetts state government's IT operation has proposed a plan to phase out use of Microsoft Corp.'s Office software in favor of office productivity suites that support an open-document format from the Organization for the Advancement of...

Intel files response to AMD charges.(Advanced Micro Devices Inc.)(Brief Article)
September 5, 2005... In a filing in the U.S. District Court in Delaware, Intel Corp. formally responded to an antitrust complaint lodged by rival Advanced Micro Devices Inc. in June. In its statement, Intel denied that it violated any laws and accused AMD of trying...

Judge nixes SEC complaint vs. Siebel.(Securities and Exchange Commission, Siebel Systems Inc.)(Brief Article)
September 5, 2005... A U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission complaint against Siebel Systems Inc. charging that the company violated disclosure rules has been dismissed by a federal judge. Judge George Daniels ruled that the SEC overreached by excessively...

Music labels singing new tune for ...(Universal Music Group and Warner Music Group join)(Brief Article)
September 5, 2005... ... business process management. Rivals Universal Music Group and Warner Music Group have gotten together with venture capitalist Lightspeed Venture Partners and BPM vendor Exigen Group to form Royalty Services LP, which will create a shared...

IT patching process is full of holes ...(SupportSoft Inc. to develop software security techniques)(Brief Article)
September 5, 2005... ... a vendor survey reveals. Help desk software vendor SupportSoft Inc. used Quality Research Associates in Foster City, Calif., to poll 112 desktop systems managers, 168 IT help desk managers and 369 users in companies with 5,000 or more...

Butter-fingered end users can get ...(Itronix Corp. introduces laptop)(Brief Article)
September 5, 2005... ... their hands on a sturdy laptop. Itronix Corp., a Spokane, Wash.-based maker of ruggedized computers for the military and other rough-and-tumble users, this week is releasing its semirugged VR-1 laptop, which is designed for technicians who...

Corporate IT is slow to deploy ...(Real Simple Syndication protocol)(Brief Article)
September 5, 2005... ... applications that use the Real Simple Syndication (RSS) protocol. That's because it lacks security, claims Andrew Nash, chief technology officer at Reactivity Inc. in Belmont, Calif. According to Nash, IT managers see RSS as an ideal way to...

BMC CFO resigns after 17 months.(George Harrington, BMC Software Inc.)(Brief Article)
September 5, 2005... George Harrington has resigned as chief financial officer at BMC Software Inc. He was replaced on an interim basis by Stephen Solcher, who has been the company's treasurer since 1992. BMC said Harrington's resignation wasn't tied to any...

StorageTek, Deloitte enter partnership.(Deloitte Consulting LLP, Storage Technology Corp.)(Brief Article)
September 5, 2005... Deloitte Consulting LLP and Storage Technology Corp., which is now owned by Sun Microsystems Inc., have agreed to jointly provide a service to help companies comply with data storage and archival regulations such as those included in the...

Microsoft acquires VoIP technology.(Teleos Communications Inc. acquired, voice over internet protocol)(Brief Article)
September 5, 2005... Microsoft Corp. has acquired Teleo Inc., a developer of services and technology that allow users to make and receive voice phone calls on their PCs via the Internet. Microsoft said it plans to incorporate Teleo's VoIP technology into its own...

Flaws revealed in Adobe version cue.(Adobe Systems Inc.)(Brief Article)
September 5, 2005... Two new security flaws were revealed in Adobe Systems Inc.'s Version Cue software. They were the second and third flaws discovered in the past two weeks, according to security consulting firm iDefense Inc. Both flaws allow local attackers to...

New group plans security metrics: organization is the latest to take stab at creating standard.
September 5, 2005... THE NEED for tools to help IT managers assess the effectiveness of their security investments has fueled another industry effort to develop performance measurement metrics. The latest group to take a stab at creating such metrics is a new...

Zotob case may lead to credit card theft arrests.(Brief Article)
September 5, 2005... An expanding investigation into the recent Zotob worm outbreak is producing more evidence of a growing nexus between worm writers and gangs looking to profit from cybercrime. The FBI last week confirmed that Turkish law enforcement...

India seeks stiffer data-theft penalties.(Brief Article)
September 5, 2005... A COMMITTEE set up by India's Ministry of Communications and Information Technology last week recommended that the government adopt tighter provisions and stiffer penalties for data theft. The committee was formed by ministry officials in...

EDS Australia workers reject deal, get raises.(Brief Article)
September 5, 2005... AUSTRALIAN EMPLOYEES of outsourcing vendor Electronic Data Systems Corp. firmly rejected the company's latest salary offer, voting down a proposed deal that would have frozen wage levels but improved some worker entitlements. After the...

Nokia opens sixth R & D center in China.(An International IT News Digest)(Brief Article)
September 5, 2005... NOKIA CORP. last week opened a research and development center in the southwestern Chinese city of Chengdu to build applications based on third-generation mobile technology. The facility is the company's sixth R & D center in China and the...

Tele2 AB.(Brief Article)
September 5, 2005... Tele2 AB, a pan-European telecommunications service provider based in Stockholm, has started shifting all billing operations for its 30 million customers to a facility in the Latvian capital of Riga. It is also moving some related IT support...

Singapore Telecommunications Ltd.(Lucas Chow leaving)(Brief Article)
September 5, 2005... Singapore Telecommunications Ltd. said Lucas Chow, its executive vice president of corporate business, will leave SingTel by year's end to take over as CEO of Media Corp., a Singapore-based publisher and broadcaster. * SUMNER LEMON, IDG...

Infineon Technologies AG.(Microsoft Corp.)(Brief Article)
September 5, 2005... Infineon Technologies AG, a Munich-based maker of semiconductors, has been awarded a contract to supply components for Microsoft Corp.'s new Xbox 360 video game console. Infineon said that it will supply an advanced security chip, a removable...

Vendor group looks for single voice on Security.(Technet Services Inc.'s Chris Zannetos)(Interview)
September 5, 2005... TechNet, a political advocacy group made up of senior executives from numerous IT vendors, established the CEO Cyber Security Task Force two years ago to promote corporate awareness of information security issues and influence government...

King county ready to restart ERP effort: hopes to learn from earlier failed tempt.(enterprise resource planning)
September 5, 2005... AFTER SPENDING $39 million on an ERP system that failed to meet management's goals for the project, King County in Washington would like to have another crack at succeeding. Officials blamed a lack of management oversight for the failure of...

IBM to add software for managing SOAs.(service oriented architectures)
September 5, 2005... IBM this month plans to announce software for managing service-oriented architectures, making it the latest in a line of vendors offering tools for automating the process of monitoring SOAs and the applications that run on them. The...

NSF proposes ambitious Internet project.(United States. National Science Foundation)
September 5, 2005... The National Science Foundation (NSF) has proposed a plan for creating a next-generation Internet with built-in security and functionality that connects all kinds of devices. The agency's Global Environment for Networking Investigations...

Has HP forgotten?(HP Technology Forum)(Column)
September 5, 2005... I COULDN'T have been the only one who was stunned last Monday when Hewlett-Packard said it didn't yet know whether its HP Technology Forum, slated to be held in New Orleans two weeks later, would need to be postponed. That decision, HP said,...

Giving IT messages the smell test.(clarity in information technology)(Column)
September 5, 2005... THE QUALITY of communication is in decline, and nowhere is this more evident than in IT. With this as a premise, researchers at the IT Leadership Academy created a five-part framework to help you analyze the "stories" of IT. Content. What...

My wired world.(chief executive officers)
September 5, 2005... I'M OFTEN asked how I maintain several jobs--CIO at Harvard Medical School, CIO at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, CEO of MA-Share, emergency physician and father. The answer is simple: highly efficient use of technology. Here's a typical...

Another example of HP's betrayal of users.(READERS' LETTERS)(Letter to the Editor)
September 5, 2005... I FEEL I must disagree with Don Tennant's statement, "But no one can argue that it was HP that pulled the rug out from under Interex's members last week. The Interex leadership did that itself" ["Never Mind," QuickLink 55704]. I must be "no...

Upgrades without downtime: here's how IT professionals say they've pulled off major network upgrades without disrupting users.(upgrading the network after failure)
September 5, 2005... UPGRADING a network is never easy, especially when the work must be completed without interrupting service. Hal McGregor, network manager at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center faced that challenge after the Boston-based hospital's network...

IT gives airlines a lift: automation initiatives in customer service and maintenance operations are increasing efficiency and cutting costs at the major carriers.
September 5, 2005... The U.S. airline industry is in a financial tailspin. Increased security concerns since the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, rising fuel costs and depressed fares have all taken their toll. US Airways Group Inc. and United Air Lines Inc....

Molecular self-assembly: nanoscale circuits build themselves, breathing new life into Moore's Law.(Nanotechnology)
September 5, 2005... SOMEDAY, COMPUTER CHIPS WILL BE GROWN, NOT MADE. The concept of nanotechnology--that is, the manufacture of preposterously small objects--is at least familiar to most, although the scales involved continue to boggle the mind (a pinhead is...

Starting over, with intrusion detection: there's lots to do at our security manager's new job, but sometimes budget timelines set your priorities.(information security manager)
September 5, 2005... AS I MENTIONED in my last installment, I started my new job as the information security manager for a hardware company about a month ago. The company didn't have a security manager for about a year before I was hired. Because of the lack...

Security bookshelf.(19 Deadly Sins of Software Security)(Brief Article)(Book Review)
September 5, 2005... 19 Deadly Sins of Software Security, by Michael Howard, David LeBlanc and John Viega (McGraw-Hill Osborne Media, 2005). Although I'm not a programmer, I often have to explain the reasons for poorly written programs. This book can help in...

HP warns on net management flaw.(Hewlett-Packard Co.)(Brief Article)
September 5, 2005... Enterprises using a key network management product from Hewlett-Packard Co. may be vulnerable to a serious flaw allowing remote attacks, the company has warned. The problem is in Network Node Manager, an HP OpenView product that carries out...

Simpler encryption.(PGP Corp.)(Brief Article)
September 5, 2005... PGP Corp. announced that an enterprise license for any individual PGP encryption application now includes the capability of all PGP encryption applications plus the capability of all PGP management functions, allowing enterprises to make a...

Microsoft releases beta of WinFS.(file storage software introduced)(Brief Article)
September 5, 2005... Microsoft Corp. last week released the first beta copy of its WinFS storage subsystem to its developer network. The beta runs on Windows XP. WinFS will still be in beta in late 2006, when Windows Vista is due to ship, according to Quentin...

3Com offers remote module.(3Com IP Telecommuting module)(Brief Article)
September 5, 2005... 3Com Corp. in Marlboro, Mass., has announced the 3Com IP Telecommuting module. The product allows large companies to provide remote users with secure access to communications applications, 3Com said. The module relies on technology from Ingate...

Sybase upgrades wireless app.(Sybase Unwired Accelerator 7.0)
September 5, 2005... Data integration and database software maker Sybase Inc. in Dublin, Calif., last month announced the Sybase Unwired Accelerator 7.0. The application has a new wizard to connect mobile devices with SAP applications. It is available now, at a...

Journyx updates timesheet tool.(Timesheet 7.0 is the enhanced version)(Brief Article)
September 5, 2005... Journyx Inc. introduced Version 7 of its Timesheet system. New features for the Web-based timesheet and expense management system include a workflow mechanism for adding users and projects, according to Austin-based Journyx. Timesheet 7.0,...

Too much ETL signals poor data management.(extract, transform and load)
September 5, 2005... TO PUT IT BLUNTLY, performing extensive extract, transform and load (ETL) processes is a symptom of poorly managed data and a fundamental lack of a cogently developed data strategy. When data is managed correctly as an enterprise asset, then...

Certifiable: IT certifications are everywhere, but what do they really prove?
September 5, 2005... BOSTON MEDICAL CENTER and Boston-based Partners HealthCare Systems Inc. hire entry-level technical workers through Atlantic Associates Inc. Both organizations look for similar qualities in their new hires, but there's one telling difference:...

New reasons to do it yourself: software licensing headaches and maturing offshore development services are inspiring maverick IT shops to build rather than buy.
September 5, 2005... RICHARD HOFFMAN is not a fan of software licensing terms. "Every time you are on somebody's proprietary [software], they always try to come back and milk you," he says. But the president and CEO of Hyundai Information Service North America...

The high cost of IT complexity.(Brief Article)
September 5, 2005... CIOs KNOW INTUITIVELY that too much customization and a hodgepodge of IT products will boost costs. Yet when business managers have argued that their particular group has "unique" needs requiring yet another custom system, CIOs haven't had a...

ROIT leaders: pharmaceuticals.(return on IT )(Brief Article)
September 5, 2005... The top five companies in the pharmaceutical industry, ranked based on how well their IT spending produced financial results for the company. COMPANY ROIT Merck & Co. 391% Johnson & Johnson 332%...

Best bits: the most useful parts of recent business and IT management books.(Offshoring Information Technology: Sourcing and Outsourcing to a Global Workforce by Erran Carmel and Paul Tjia)(Brief Article)(Book Review)
September 5, 2005... THE BOOK: Offshoring Information Technology: Sourcing and Outsourcing to a Global Workforce, by Erran Carmel and Paul Tjia (Cambridge University Press, 2005). [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] It looks and feels like a stodgy college textbook,...

The IT economy.(information technology)
September 5, 2005... Executives at large, U.S.-based multinational companies have turned less optimistic, especially those who see their companies as vulnerable to rising oil prices, according to a quarterly Management Barometer survey by PricewaterhouseCoopers in...

Buying intentions.(IT spendings to be done this year)(Brief Article)
September 5, 2005... IDC researchers say their index of business IT demand (below) shows that user spending expectations have dropped to the lowest point this year, as the surveyed CIOs and business executives simultaneously became less optimistic about growth. The...

Ask a premier 100 IT leader.(John Parkinson)
September 5, 2005... John Parkinson TITLE: Chief technologist, Americas region COMPANY: Capgemini [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Parkinson is this month's guest Premier 100 IT Leader, answering readers' questions about leading an IT department and...

Testing, testing.(Brief Article)
September 5, 2005... WHEN YOU'RE TRYING to fill an open position, how do you know which candidate will perform best in the job? Every interviewer has a different style, making for some apples-to-oranges comparisons. And it can be difficult in a typical job...

Leadership: a lot isn't working.(Brief Article)
September 5, 2005... The 2005 What's Working survey, conducted by Mercer Human Resource Consulting LLC in the first quarter of this year, found that two of every three workers say they feel a strong sense of commitment to their organizations. But there was much in...

Got questions about enterprise analytics? Computerworld's IT Management Summit has the answers.
September 5, 2005... Looking to better understand enterprise analytics? Apply to attend Computerworld's complimentary* half-day IT Management Summit: Beyond Business Intelligence. Enterprise analytics enable companies to make timely fact-based decisions using...

Innovation.(EVENTS)
September 5, 2005... * Sept. 27-28, New York Sponsor: Forrester Research Inc. Consumer Forum 2005: Innovating in a Consumer-Driven World covers topics such as media, retail and product innovation; reinventing the customer relationship; balancing...

Collaboration.(EVENTS)
September 5, 2005... * Sept. 27-28, New York Sponsor: Information Today Inc. Connect & Collaborate: Social Networking & Collaboration Inside the Enterprise covers topics such as getting returns on investment; collaboration technology, trends and tools; the...

Emerging Technologies.
September 5, 2005... * Sept. 28-29, Cambridge, Mass. Sponsor: Technology Review The fifth annual Emerging Technologies Conference at MIT includes sessions on computing for developing nations, truly intelligent machines, social computing, bio/nano...

Risk management.(Robert Frances Group Inc.)(Brief Article)
September 5, 2005... * Nov. 14, San Francisco Sponsor: Robert Frances Group Inc. Reducing Risk, Restoring Trust covers topics such as minimizing risk when translating laws into corporate policy, risk controls and metrics for third parties, risk metrics and...

Too much information.(technical workers are bad communicators)(Column)
September 5, 2005... TECHNICAL PEOPLE have a bad reputation for being poor communicators. And unfortunately, it's not entirely undeserved. If you ask managers in the finance department about why they think that the IT people they deal with are bad...

Agile programmers turning to new tools: begin to accept products that automate work.
September 5, 2005... Corporate IT departments embracing lightweight agile-development methods are increasingly turning to some emerging tools built to work within the process. Developers using agile programming methodologies such as Scrum and extreme...

Survival skills.(information technology workers payment)(Column)
September 5, 2005... WHO WILL SURVIVE IN IT? That's a pretty grim way to frame the issue, especially considering recent good news. IT pay is rising again for some skills, according to staffing research firm Foote Partners. IT employment keeps inching upward--not by...

You just can't be too careful.
September 5, 2005... What a Monday: network glitches, hardware problems, and some practical joker has swiped this net admin pilot fish's coffee mug, just when he needs it most. "Late that morning, I quickly put the case back on the server, boot it up, and all is...

Users start to weigh long-term IT issues: assessment process begins amid efforts to restore key systems.(information technology)
September 12, 2005... IT staffers at Tulane University, the largest private employer in New Orleans, were working last week to get the school's financial systems operating again after the flood-waters spurred by Hurricane Katrina surrounded its data center near the...

Progress is slow on HIPAA security rules: data mandates aren't driving health care companies to comply.(Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act)
September 12, 2005... Almost five months after the data security rules mandated by the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act went into effect, many health care companies still aren't fully compliant with them, according to IT managers and analysts. ...

Wi-Fi fails to connect with mobile users.(business travellers rarely use Wi-Fi hotspots)
September 12, 2005... For many business travelers, public Wi-Fi hot spots are proving to be not all that hot for making remote connections to the Internet and corporate systems. IT managers such as Bob Heindel Jr., a network technician at Idaho Power Co. in...

Telecom focuses on ways to avoid repeat of outages: sees the need to harden networks so they can better withstand damage.
September 12, 2005... NEW TECHNOLOGIES and improved emergency procedures could help avoid prolonged communications outages should another disaster of the same magnitude as Hurricane Katrina strike the U.S., IT managers and analysts said last week. Their ideas...

Red cross works to better protect its networks from attacks, scams: CISO says relief agency seeks help as traffic surges.(American Red Cross)
September 12, 2005... Information security staffers at the American Red Cross, which was hit last month by the Zotob worm, are working overtime to try to protect the organization's networks against attacks amid surges in usage of the networks following Hurricane...

After Katrina, energy firm turns to satellite systems.(Valero Energy Corp.)(Brief Article)
September 12, 2005... The oil and gas companies that operate refineries along the Gulf Coast suffered extensive equipment damage and telecommunications disruptions during and after Hurricane Katrina. But San Antonio-based Valero Energy Corp. has been able to...

Iron Mountain says its data archives seem mostly intact: firm begins to inspect four area storage facilities.(Brief Article)
September 12, 2005... Iron Mountain Inc. said last week that it had begun inspecting its four off-site data storage facilities in the New Orleans area and had yet to find any computer disks or tapes that were directly damaged by Hurricane Katrina. However, Bob...

Japanese vendor to acquire PalmSource.(ACCESS Company Ltd.)(Brief Article)
September 12, 2005... Access Co., a Tokyo-based maker of embedded Web browsers, announced that it has agreed to acquire PalmSource Inc. and its Palm operating system for about $324.3 million. Access said it hopes PalmSource, which spun out of Palm Inc. in 2003, can...

Google hires Internet pioneer.(Vinton Cerf )(Brief Article)
September 12, 2005... Google Inc. has hired Internet pioneer Vinton Cerf as its chief Internet evangelist. Cerf resigned his post as vice president of technology strategy at MCI Inc. Google said Cerf, a co-designer of TCP/IP, will help Google build network...

Dell won't contest AMD subpoena.(Advanced Micro Devices Inc.)(Brief Article)
September 12, 2005... Dell Inc. doesn't plan to contest a subpoena from Advanced Micro Devices Inc. asking for documents related to its purchases of Intel Corp. processors in recent years. Dell also agreed to preserve relevant e-mail from executives as part of AMD's...

Former HP CEO Platt dies at 64.(Hewlett-Packard Co., Lew Platt, chief executive officer)(Brief Article)(Obituary)
September 12, 2005... Lew Platt, 64, who rose through the ranks from entry-level engineer to CEO of Hewlett-Packard Co., died last week. Platt joined HP in 1966 and succeeded co-founder David Packard as chairman in 1993. He left the company in 1999. At the time of...

SBC, Verizon, Qwest quake in fear ...(Switchvox to dominate information technology industry)(Brief Article)
September 12, 2005... ... as open-source private branch exchange software with integrated voice-over-IP capabilities gains adherents. "I believe they already know they're doomed," suggests Brian Capouch, chairman of the computer science department at Saint Joseph's...

Big ERP vendors are next in line ...(enterprise resource planning)(Brief Article)
September 12, 2005... ... for an open-source on-slaught. Jorg Janke, founder of ComPiere Inc. in Portland, Ore., doesn't argue that SAP AG, Oracle Corp., Lawson Software Inc. and other ERP vendors are doomed by his company's eponymous open-source applications. But...

Information overload? Consider mapping ...(Mindjet )(Brief Article)
September 12, 2005... ... your data instead of reading it. Robert Gordon, CEO of Mindjet Corp. in Larkspur, Calif., thinks your company's employees will appreciate visualizing data because most workers "are not able to access information and work with it to do their...

Firefox gets single sign-on support ...(ActivCard Inc.)(Brief Article)
September 12, 2005... ... in a new software release from ActivCard Corp. According to Jason Hart, senior vice president of sales and marketing at the Fremont, Calif.-based security vendor, ActivCard will be among the first single sign-on vendors whose software will...

Microsoft maps new midsize market strategy: plans include a server software bundle, role-based business apps.
September 12, 2005... MICROSOFT CORP. last week said it plans to deliver a new server software infrastructure package for midsize companies, plus role-based business applications that will be tailored to meet the needs of businesses with 50 to 1,000 employees. ...

Microsoft lodges another appeal of European ruling.(European Union. European Commission)(Brief Article)
September 12, 2005... MICROSOFT LAST WEEK said it has lodged a new appeal against the European Commission's antitrust ruling as it continues to try to short-circuit any effort to force it to make its communications protocols available to competitors. The...

Windows flaw due to be patched.(Microsoft Corp. to release one security fixes)(Brief Article)
September 12, 2005... MICROSOFT'S monthly release of security fixes, due tomorrow, will cover only one vulnerability: an unidentified flaw in Windows. However, the security hole is rated as critical in severity, meaning that a computer worm or virus could take...

Symantec issues antivirus bug patch.(Version 9 of AntiVirus Corporate Edition )(Brief Article)
September 12, 2005... Symantec Corp. has issued a patch for a vulnerability in its corporate antivirus software that could allow unauthorized persons to access a company's servers. The flaw in Version 9 of AntiVirus Corporate Edition exposes the server log-in name...