Stories by Brian Fonseca

Storage resource management ignored says study

Many enterprise customers are dragging their feet on adopting and implementing storage-resource management (SRM) offerings, leaving their IT environments in danger of data overruns, capacity-planning woes and poor storage strategy execution, according to a study by Forrester Research.

PeopleSoft to buy JD Edwards

PeopleSoft shook the enterprise software application landscape on Monday by announcing that it plans to purchase JD Edwards & Co in a stock deal valued at approximately $US1.7 billion.

Security outfits fortify defences

Exasperated by warding off scores of diverse security attacks, enterprises are seeking to infuse their networks with more proactive security management and more intelligent perimeter defences.

Alleged Anna Kournikova worm author steps forward

The alleged creator of the Anna Kournikova worm said Monday's moderately fast-spreading program was never intended for malicious purposes and that users caught red-handed by its e-mail launching payload should accept personal blame for the trouble it has caused.

HP World 2000 Opens with a Whimper

With an army of press amassed in New York to inspect Hewlett-Packard's much-hyped "Superdome" server on Tuesday, the company's user and partner conference happening simultaneously in Philadelphia played second fiddle.

RSA Releases Patent Early

Developers wanting to incorporate PKI (public key infrastructure) technology into their applications soon will have more options, following last week's news that the RSA key encryption algorithm is now in the public domain.

Microsoft Admits Shortcomings in Outlook

In a rare mea culpa, Microsoft admitted during May that vulnerabilities in its Outlook e-mail program helped propagate the damaging "I LOVE YOU" worm. This prompted the software giant to release a free security upgrade to protect users from opening and further spreading viruses.

Canadian Mounties get their Mafiaboy

After a two month cybermanhunt, a 15-year-old Montreal teenager, who went by the online name Mafiaboy, was arrested last week in connection with the distributed DoS (denial of service) attacks that immobilized Internet giants including CNN, eBay, Yahoo Inc., Amazon.com Inc., and ETrade Group Inc. in February.

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