Date: 10/01/07 (Security)    Keywords: software, security, virus

Cybercrooks are breaking down large botnets into smaller groups as they seek to increase their revenue, the security firm says. Cybercriminals are downsizing their botnets to make it harder for software security companies to track and contain botnet operations, researchers say. Computers infected with a virus unknowingly...

Source: http://news.zdnet.com/2100-1009_22-6210900.html

Date: 10/02/07 (Security)    Keywords: software, security, virus, spyware

Most have security software on their machines, but many haven't updated it or activated it, according to McAfee survey. Most Americans believe their computers are protected against viruses and spyware, but scans found that a large number had outdated or disabled security software, according to a poll released...

Source: http://news.zdnet.com/2100-1009_22-6211093.html

Date: 10/02/07 (Data Management)    Keywords: software

As Alan Laken is supposed to have said, "Failing to plan is planning to fail." While this statement seems true in most areas of life, it really has an impact in the deployment of virtual machine software on both client and server systems. This goes against the strongly held belief...

Source: http://blogs.zdnet.com/virtualization/?p=247

Date: 10/02/07 (Open Source)    Keywords: software, security

When Barracuda reversed the question, asking for advantages in proprietary software, 23% answered security. When open source customers were asked the advantages in their choice, only 16% answered security.

Source: http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/zdnet/open-source/~3/164238793/

Date: 10/02/07 (Data Management)    Keywords: software

Peter Zencke, a member of SAP's Executive Board and head of R&D, spent the last fours years developing Business ByDesign, a new foundation for SAP's ERP software. I caught up with him during SAP TechEd ‘07 and asked about the origins of the product and what will differentiate it...

Source: http://blogs.zdnet.com/BTL/?p=6492

Date: 10/03/07 (Security)    Keywords: software, microsoft

Changes include a complete overhaul of the device's software and a redesign of Marketplace, which will offer 1 million unprotected songs.Photos: Round two for Zune Microsoft has unveiled the second generation of Zune digital music players and will offer consumers 1 million unprotected songs on its online...

Source: http://news.zdnet.com/2100-9584_22-6211357.html

Date: 10/03/07 (Data Management)    Keywords: software, security

As I've mentioned before, I believe that security software for virtualized environments is going to be an increasingly contested market. At this point, a very few entries have been launched. Catbird's V-agent (see this post) was one of the first. Well, the folks at Catbird have come up with yet...

Source: http://blogs.zdnet.com/virtualization/?p=248

Date: 10/03/07 (Security)    Keywords: software, technology, virus

Respiratory therapist, fired after porn bookmarks were found on a hospital computer, unsuccessfully uses the virus-did-it claim. Police Blotter is a weekly News.com report on the intersection of technology and the law. What: Hospital respiratory therapist files lawsuit against hospital for unlawful termination, blaming malicious software...

Source: http://news.zdnet.com/2100-9588_22-6211377.html

Date: 10/03/07 (Data Management)    Keywords: software

There is growing awareness among British IT managers that energy costs are no longer negligible, and may never be again. A recent commentary from the CEO of Celona Technologies points out words still win out over action. Celona builds software for communications enterprises and it surveyed many of...

Source: http://blogs.zdnet.com/green/?p=339

Date: 10/04/07 (Data Management)    Keywords: software, microsoft

Microsoft launched a public beta of HealthVault, its free, health-records Software+Service offering, on October 4. Here are a few screen shots showing some of the HealthVault elements and how Microsoft is positioning its consumer health solution. Microsoft is positioning the offering as a way for consumers to...

Source: http://blogs.zdnet.com/microsoft/?p=790

Date: 10/05/07 (Data Management)    Keywords: software, technology

This post is part of a series of myths I've heard mentioned during discussion with Kusnetzky Group clients. This time, the topic is expertise requirements. Often suppliers of virtualization technology in general and virtual machine software in specific leave the impression that their technology can be just dropped into the...

Source: http://blogs.zdnet.com/virtualization/?p=250

Date: 10/08/07 (IT Management)    Keywords: software

BMC announced today the acquisition of Emprisa Networks, which provides automated network configuration, compliance and change management software. BMC had been partnering with Emprisa, and the Emprisa E-NetAware is part of BMC's new Service Automation solution, which deals with coordinating and running provisioning and updates; server and network configuration;...

Source: http://blogs.zdnet.com/BTL/?p=6544

Date: 10/08/07 (Data Management)    Keywords: software

Acquisition cost of about $6.8 billion will strain SAP's financial health next year, say analysts. Shares in German computer software maker SAP fell more than 5 percent on Monday on market skepticism about the merit of SAP's plans to buy Franco-American peer Business Objects, analysts said. Dealers...

Source: http://news.zdnet.com/2100-3513_22-6212232.html

Date: 10/08/07 (Java Web)    Keywords: software

PmWiki is a popular wiki software which uses the file system to store wiki pages. We use for our intranet and to document our processes and systems. One of my rising concerns was that it wasn’t backed up at all. So I came up with a simple script to backup pmwiki regularly to our Subversion [...]

Source: http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/how-to-backup-pmwiki-in-subversion-code/

Date: 10/10/07 (Security)    Keywords: software

Flaw could allow malicious program to infect a PC without a user knowing it; patch might not be available until end of October. Adobe Systems, whose software is used by millions of people to read documents sent over the Internet, said some of its programs contain a flaw...

Source: http://news.zdnet.com/2100-1009_22-6212767.html

Date: 10/12/07 (Open Source)    Keywords: software

While it may be comfortable to think of open source merely in terms of software, that just won’t cut it. Open source is the term we apply to the impact of the Internet on the software business, but its lessons are valid across all industries, in both business and politics, and frankly, you ain’t seen nothing yet.

Source: http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/zdnet/open-source/~3/169030634/

Date: 10/13/07 (Computer Help)    Keywords: software

Got a problem, and I kind of need to get it solved quick (as in by Monday morning). I'm going to be working from home Monday and Tuesday, and I'm having problems getting the VPN connection to work. When I try, I get the error "the remote computer is not responding." I know the remote computer is on and listening, and I know that the settings on my computer are correct. Tech support believes the problem to be my router's firewall. The router is a Netgear WGR614v6. Netgear's support page does not show what ports need forwarded for this particular router. At present, I have port forwarding enabled for all ports on the system (effectively disabling the firewall), and the problem persists. My cable modem is a Motorola Surfboard SB5101; from what I can gather from Motorola's page, the SB5101 does not have a built-in firewall, so I'm assuming that's not the problem. The computer itself is running XPSP2, fully patched, etc. There is no third-party software involved in setting up the VPN connection, it's just set up in Control Panel::Network Connections. According to my company, nothing else is needed (others VPN in all the time this way).

Anyone have any ideas? Or do you need more information?

Source: http://community.livejournal.com/computer_help/827130.html

Date: 10/14/07 (Java Web)    Keywords: software

iPhone Elite hackers have finally posted ways to un-brick your iPhone (make it usable again) after it has been rendered useless by Apple’s iPhone firmwire upgrade 1.1.1. Any iPhone which was modified (software) to unlock the SIM card to use it without AT&T subscription or switch to a different provider were affected by the upgrade. [...]

Source: http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/iphone-how-to-recover-from-111-firmwire-upgrade-in-4-steps/

Date: 10/15/07 (Security)    Keywords: software, database

Update includes fixes for 27 vulnerabilities in Oracle Database, five of which may be exploited remotely without authentication. Oracle plans to push out 51 fixes for flaws in its software, in a self-described "critical patch update" on Tuesday. The flaws affect a number of Oracle products. Some...

Source: http://news.zdnet.com/2100-1009_22-6213495.html

Date: 10/15/07 (Data Management)    Keywords: software, database

Update includes fixes for 27 vulnerabilities in Oracle Database, five of which may be exploited remotely without authentication. Oracle plans to push out 51 fixes for flaws in its software, in a self-described "critical patch update" on Tuesday. The flaws affect a number of Oracle products. Some...

Source: http://news.zdnet.com/2100-1009_22-6213495.html