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The Security Space Web Server Surveyis a survey of Web server software usage on the Internet broken down by 86 domains. Security Space estimates that nearly 90 percent of all Web sites are “orphans” to which no other sites link. Its Web server survey therefore counts only those servers referenced on other sites. More than […]

The 10 Gigabit Ethernet (10 GbE) networking standard promises great speed in data transfer rates. Too bad it hasn’t been as easy to take advantage of its 1 gigabit per second rates. Sun Microsystems (Quote) is hoping to change that with a new breed of multi-threaded 10 GbE networking technology that aims to take full advantage […]

Intel (Quote) gave a preview into upcoming processor plans, laying out what’s ahead with its forthcoming chips, codenamed “Penryn” and “Nehalem.” The company’s strategy is to introduce a new microarchitecture every two years, with a bump in performance in between. The Core technology released last year gets a bump in Penryn and Nehalem, due in 2008, […]

UPDATED: Oracle (Quote) threw a firebomb of accusations at SAP (Quote) Thursday, charging its enterprise software rival with corporate theft “on a grand scale.” In a complaint filed in California’s Northern District Court in San Francisco, Oracle accused the German software company of engaging in “systematic, illegal access” to its computer support systems. The lawsuit alleges that […]

AMD charged that Intel CEO Paul Otellini and other top execs did not proactively retain e-mail records as part of a compliance agreement in AMD’s antitrust lawsuit against the chip giant. However it’s not clear whether any of the missing documents are irretrievably lost. While Intel (Quote) had already admitted earlier this month to numerous glitches […]

Unauthorized wireless devices can expose your organization’s confidential data and critical assets to the outside world. Left connected, these devices create a dangerous vulnerability at best, and at worst, a company disaster. Despite the widespread understanding that rogue devices are a leading security threat facing enterprises today, organizations continue to look for viable solutions and […]

Attention Blackberry addicts, your mastery of typing with both thumbs now has an application outside of just answering e-mails. FlipStart Labs, which was founded by Microsoft-co-founder Paul Allen, announced its plans to ship a super compact PC, almost as small as a Blackberry or other smartphone, with full Windows support. The first units for sale […]

Oracle (Quote) unveiled a new pricing model that should smooth the implementation path for customers thinking about buying its applications. The new structure will be applied across the company’s entire portfolio, including applications inherited with the acquisitions of JD Edwards, PeopleSoft and Siebel. The new scheme will also be applicable to Oracle’s homegrown E-Business Suite products. […]

Browsing the Web on an average mobile device can be a slow and frustrating process. It’s a process that the newly introduced Opera Mini 3.0 browser wants to make a whole lot better. Opera Mini 3.0 is a free download that, according to Opera, is not tied to any single service and can be used […]

By Andrew Whitaker and Daniel Newman From Penetration Testing and Network Defense, Chapter 10, pp. 333-337 – Cisco Press. Reprinted with permission. Routers are not the only networking devices that are vulnerable to attack. You should also thoroughly test your switches on your LAN. Following are some of the methods for testing switches: VLAN hopping […]