IT-Code-News: IT News HeadLines (ComputerWorld) 13/03/2009

Friday, March 13, 2009

IT News HeadLines (ComputerWorld) 13/03/2009

Consultant who exposed flaw on Coleman site fires back
A Minneapolis-based IT consultant is defending her decision to publicize a security weakness she found on former Minnesota Sen. Norm Coleman's campaign Web site in January, a weakness that allowed donor information to be made public.

Asustek plans to restructure, sell fewer versions of Eee PC
Asustek plans to further restructure its business, including reducing the variety of netbooks it sells.

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Opinion: Amazon, Microsoft improve their cloud computing game
Amazon has introduced EC2 Reserved Instances" which allow you to obtain a reduced hourly fee for an upfront payment that varies according to which level of service you use. The initiative was launched to address applications that are available for long durations, rather than being used for short periods of time and then taken down.

VirtualBox 2.1.4
Just after I reviewed Sun's VirtualBox virtualization solution, the company released version 2.1 which added two major new features along with the usual assortment of bug fixes. Since the release of 2.1, there have been four minor releases, bringing VirtualBox up to version 2.1.4, which is the one I used for this updated review.

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Web 2.0 tools like Twitter, Facebook can foster growth in hard times
Social networking tools are helping companies such as Zappos.com and IBM stay close to customers. That can be a good thing -- or a risky one.

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Data center talent pool shrinks faster than expected
The talent pool of senior data center pros is shrinking faster than anticipated as budget cuts have forced businesses to close their doors and shed older workers, the ones with the most knowledge and experience, according AFCOM.

Best security questions to ask about SaaS
Security issues have to be clearly examined before diving into software as a service (SaaS), warns Burton Group analyst Eric Maiwald, who shed some light on the subject at this week's Infosec conference.

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AWS adds option to reserve capacity on cloud
Amazon Web Services Thursday for the first time began giving customers in the U.S. the ability to reserve capacity in advance on its Elastic Compute Cloud infrastructure.

Soasta unwraps BrowserFarm for cloud testing
A little less than a month after announcing its service for Web applications, cloud testing provider Soasta debuts BrowserFarm for load-testing.

Record installed .deb packages in a text file (Ubuntu/Debian)

Unlike virt-manager, virt-install is a command line tool that allows you to create KVM guests on a headless server.

How to run fully-virtualized guests (HVM) with Xen 3.2 On Debian Lenny (x86_64)

This guide explains how to set up fully-virtualized guests (HVM) with Xen 3.2 on a Debian Lenny x86_64 host system. HVM stands for HardwareVirtualMachine; to set up such guests, you need a CPU that supports hardware virtualization (Intel VT or AMD-V).

Using iSCSI On Debian Lenny (initiator and target)

This guide explains how to set up an iSCSI target and an iSCSI initiator (client), both running Debian Lenny. The iSCSI protocol is a

Spring forward file fixing

One of the annoyances of the Unix date command is how easily one can end up with a date that's far in the past or into the future. Let's look at a simple way to find and fix files that, according to their timestamps, don't yet exist.

how to make flash 3D rotating spiral photo gallery

Step by step tutorial shows you how to make flash 3D rotating spiral photo gallery using 3rd party flash software called Flash Gallery Factory with five simple steps.

Looks or brains -- Windows 7 and Apple's Snow Leopard

As Microsoft is busy prepping Windows 7 -- and making a splash, as it did in January by releasing a public beta -- Apple is quietly developing Mac OS X 10.6, a.k.a. Snow Leopard. Like Windows 7, Snow Leopard will be more about refinement -- and less about revolution.

Microsoft-led privacy group backs off legislation

A Microsoft-led group set up three years ago has backed away from its original goal of pushing for comprehensive U.S. privacy legislation.

Business process flaws seen posing security risks

Flaws in the business processes that underlie Web sites can present serious security risks, the CTO of a Web security company said Thursday.

Conficker.C variant set for April 1st surprise, CA says

The third Conficker malware variant in infected machines is set to activate April 1, says the director of threat research at CA where the malware sample first discovered last week by Symantec is being examined.

IBM develops Facebook privacy application

A new IBM application for Facebook's buy-sell forum guides users toward strong privacy settings and could be developed into a broader privacy control tool.

Researchers find ways to sniff keystrokes from thin air

Researchers say they've discovered new ways to read what you're typing by aiming special wireless or laser equipment at the keyboard or by simply plugging into a nearby electrical socket.

Apple fixes security flaws, adds features in iTunes update

Apple updated iTunes Wednesday, fixing a pair of security vulnerabilities, adding support for the new line of iPod Shuffles and boosting performance when loading large libraries and browsing the online store.

Former Senator's donor database exposed on Wikileaks

In a brewing controversy, whistleblower site Wikileaks.org has published personal information belonging to more than 51,000 donors and supporters of former Minnesota Senator Norm Coleman that it says were leaked because Coleman's campaign Web site was not properly secured.

Symantec Speaks About Spam

What does Symantec say about spam? There's a whole bunch of it, but spam volume dropped by more than 75 percent on November 12th last year for a simple reason: the computers controlling spam-spewing zombie PCs were disconnected from the Internet. Can we apply that success for a more permanent solution? Some, but it's not that easy.

Symantec Show Wrapup

Now that I'm back from Las Vegas to a last-gasp March cold snap in Texas, it's time to wrap up my days at the last ever ManageFusion, the Altiris user group conference. Next year, ManageFusion and the Altiris products will be part of the Symantec Vision conference. Let's hope the high energy level and enthusiasm of ManageFusion carries over to the combined events. A keynote with a live band onstage tells you right away this is no boring PowerPoint overloaded snoozefest with suited VPs droning on.

Windows 7: A chance for IT to be the heroes

Windows 7 is likely to go Gold Master later this spring, giving IT departments an unprecedented opportunity. By skipping Vista altogether, they can use the interim to get their houses in order in preparation for Windows 7. They'd be IT heroes who were smart enough to skip a costly Vista migration while they could still get life out of XP.

Microsoft patches first critical bug in Windows 7 beta

Microsoft patched the first critical vulnerability in Windows 7 as it rolled out an update that fixes three flaws in the new operating system's kernel.

Microsoft patches Windows DNS, kernel flaws

Microsoft has released software patches fixing a handful of critical bugs in the Windows kernel, as well as flaws in the Windows Directory Name System and SChannel security software.

App-compatibility toolkit for Windows 7 due in April

Microsoft next month plans to release a toolkit to help business customers begin testing their existing applications for compatibility with Windows 7.

IBM 'online theater' may boost care at Boston hospital

IBM is working with a Boston hospital to develop a browser-based application that uses mashups to let medical experts in different locations study patient data as if they were sitting side by side

D.C.'s top IT security official charged with bribery

Federal law enforcement officials filed bribery charges today against the District of Columbia's acting chief security officer, along with a one-time D.C. government employee who owns an IT outsourcing company that runs offshore operations in India. Both were later arraigned in federal court.

Sale of key Nortel assets may be inevitable

Nortel Networks may have no choice but to sell off key parts of its business, industry analysts said.

Microsoft to shut down adCenter Analytics

Microsoft on Thursday said it will discontinue its adCenter Analytics service at the end of the year, and it appears that the company does not plan to replace it.

Google exec to replace AOL CEO

Google executive Tim Armstrong has been hired by AOL to replace Chairman and CEO Randy Falco.

Isilon boosts speed, capacity with new NAS boxes

Scale-out NAS vendor Isilon this week released three new products designed to improve performance for a variety of data-access needs, from high-performance, I/O-intensive applications to nearline archiving.

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