Technology moves fast. But you know that. It is your job, after all. Even so, sometimes it catches us all by surprise. Web logs, or blogs as they have become known, are barely a decade old as a publishing medium, but they are part of the mainstream media. And they should be part of your daily routine, as an author, a reader or a commenter.
E-crime has evolved into a booming business. Viruses, malware and online crime have moved from hacking vandalism into a major shadow economy that closely mimics the real business world, including profit-driven organised cybercrime, writes Yuval Ben-Itzhak, CTO at Finjan.
Despite the proliferation of anti-spam solutions on the market, spam volume has reached epidemic proportions, writes Dan Hubbard, vice-president of security research at Websense.
It seems the world really is big enough for both Windows and Linux. Earlier this month some of the heat was taken out of the long-standing rivalry between Microsoft and the Linux community thanks to a collaborative effort between old enemies Microsoft and Novell. The result is that we will see Windows Server and Novell SuSE Enterprise Linux work better together.
Gartner is usually reluctant to advocate doing nothing, but with regard to the next step for Netware users, this might make sense for the next two to three years, assuming you are on Netware 6.5. This is because Novell will probably stop updating its Netware kernel by 2008.