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What Will EMC Migration Program Mean?
EMC’s quiet announcement of a program that offers financial incentives for customers to abandon Veritas storage products for EMC’s own portfolio may influence some to make the switch, although experts don’t believe it will cause enough change to effect a market shift. The deal, dubbed “Safe Switch,” offers users financial incentives to switch to a…
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MySQL ‘Bot’ Attacks Windows Systems
Malicious hackers have launched a zero-day bot attack against default Windows installations of the MySQL database engine, infecting vulnerable systems at the rate of 100 per minute, security experts warned on Thursday. The bot takes advantage of the publicly released “MySQL UDF Dynamic Library Exploit” to break into the open-source MySQL package. Once a database…
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DoS Flaws Haunt BIND Server Software
The nonprofit Internet Systems Consortium has rolled out fixes for a pair of denial-of-service flaws in its BIND (Berkeley Internet Name Domain) implementation of the Domain Name System protocols. The vulnerabilities were reported in BIND versions 8.4.4, 8.4.5 and 9.3.0 and carry a “moderately critical” rating from independent research firm Secunia. BIND is by far…
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Microsoft to Make Windows Anti-Piracy Program Mandatory
Microsoft Corp. is planning to make its currently voluntary Windows anti-piracy program mandatory some time in the second half of 2005, company officials said on Wednesday. So far, however, Microsoft has no timetable for broadening the program to other Microsoft products, such as Microsoft Office, server software or games, company officials said. But they did…
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Apple Cuts Pricing on Mac Mini Options
Just two weeks after the Mac mini’s introduction, Apple Computer Inc. of Cupertino, Calif., has reduced the pricing on some of the build-to-order options on its Mac mini personal computer. These options are available when a customer orders a Mac mini directly from the online Apple Store. The price of replacing the Mac mini’s base…
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e-Security Releases Major Upgrade to Sentinel
e-Security Inc. is releasing a major upgrade to its Sentinel security event manager that will combine its already highly integrated security event management software with new abilities to automate and enforce event identification. In addition, Sentinel 5 will automate the resolution process, providing a new workflow capability similar to that enterprises now use for other…
