26th June 2002 Archive

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Mitnick testimony burns Sprint in Vegas ‘vice hack’ case

'Never been cracked?' -- baloney

Since adult entertainment operator Eddie Munoz first told state regulators in 1994 that mercenary hackers were crippling his business by diverting, monitoring and blocking his phone calls, officials at local telephone company Sprint of Nevada have maintained that, as far as they know, their systems have never suffered a single …

Security 26 Jun 2002, 02:29
Scandal-hit Peregrine appoints new CFO and auditors

Well, you gotta do something

Peregrine Systems Inc has recruited Ken Sexton as CFO and appointed PricewaterhouseCoopers as its accountants in a further bid to bring some stability to the scandal-hit infrastructure management vendor. The San Diego, California-based company's last CFO left along with the CEO in May after the discovery of "irregularities …

e-Business 26 Jun 2002, 08:39
Worldcom engulfed in $3.8bn accounting scandal

CFO fired

Worldcom, the US telco, has uncovered an huge accounting scandal at the firm, which overstated profits by an astonishing $3.8bn. Yes that's right, $3.8bn in expenditure, booked as capital expenses over five quarters. When in actuality, the money should have been booked into the profit and loss account as running costs. …

Music and Media 26 Jun 2002, 09:04
Apple dumps Aussie PR after news coup

And now the good news, you're sacked

Over the years, Apple has become accustomed to bad news. Now it gets the flutters when there's good news. And so, the company has sacked its PR manager in Australia after she mistakenly issued a good news press release. The trouble started when Myrna van Pelt, a four-year Apple veteran in the Australian office, sent out a press …

Mac Channel 26 Jun 2002, 09:48
MS releases Web Matrix dev tool

ASP .NET FOC

Microsoft is pitching a new development tool at non-professional developers who want to make use of the features of .NET. The new tool, known as the Web Matrix project, offers all of the basic single-user features that would be expected and doesn't have some of the management features that are to be found in Visual Studio .NET …

Software 26 Jun 2002, 11:07
Microsoft Mac boss responds to Hebrew snub

You're not worth it

Kevin Browne, manager of the Microsoft Macintosh Business Unit, has responded to our coverage of the lack of localization on the Mac for Hebrew, Arabic and other languages. We print his reply in full. We print our response in full, too. From: Kevin Browne To: Andrew Orlowski Cc: Karen Sung [Waggener Edstrom]; Rich Adolph [ …

Mac Channel 26 Jun 2002, 11:08
RIM propagates new BlackBerries

Push data management

Research in Motion Ltd yesterday moved to keep some clear water between itself and rival handheld wireless data systems suppliers, promising new server and device products for the fall that put special emphasis on enterprise management and international markets. RIM's BlackBerry may still look like the poor relation to …

Mobile 26 Jun 2002, 11:18
In the summertime, when the weather is fine….

...You get 35 per cent off from IT-minds

The sun is shining, you're on a lounger by the pool contemplating an ice-filled gin and tonic to the distant sound of Mungo Jerry. Now all you need to make your earthly paradise complete is a bit of light Summer reading from Reg associate IT-minds.com. Well, why not stretch out with this week's featured offering?: TCP/IP …

Site News 26 Jun 2002, 11:19
Secure Computing waves next-gen firewall roadmap

Gauntlet, Sidewinder in mind-meld

Secure Computing Corp yesterday unveiled how it plans to merge the Gauntlet business it bought from Network Associates Inc into its existing firewall business, with the goal of shipping the first of its "next generation" firewalls, codenamed NGF, at the end of the year, Kevin Murphy writes. According to product marketing …

Security 26 Jun 2002, 11:23
Copyright vigilantes ride P2P shotgun

The law giveth and the law taketh

A Democrat Congressman is proposing a bill that would legalise techniques to disrupt the operation of file sharing networks, such as KaZaA and Morpheus. Contrary to some reports, Howard Berman's bill falls short of giving carte blanche to the launch of distributed denial of service attacks but it would permit a number of …

Music and Media 26 Jun 2002, 12:16
More on AMD and Palladium

HWRoundup Servers, nanostamps, perfect memory, belated book puff

Now then, now then, here's an interesting nugget fossicked by ExtremeTech reader and consultant Andreas Kuhn - a two-year old white paper "authored by AMD and encryption firm Wave Systems (which) may offer additional clues to the design of PCs incorporating Palladium, Microsoft's new security initiative." This "contains many …

Personal 26 Jun 2002, 13:40
Dixons talk up PCs, mobile phones

Things can only get better

Dixons has issued an bullish assessment of a sales recovery in mobile phones and PCs, following big slumps in the year to April 27 2002. The UK's biggest retailer of PCs says that unit sales rose slgithly against a backdrop of 21 per cent drop in the market in the last FY. Mobile phone sales were wobbly, but nothing like the …

Business 26 Jun 2002, 14:45
LCDs drive monitor market

CRTs in the doldrums

LCD monitor sales continue to rise at the expense of their CRT counterparts , and will account for more than 75 per cent of monitor shipments by 2006. Say's who? The data provider is Suppli/Stanford Resources which forecasts LCD monitor revenues will jump from $6.2bn in 2001 to more than $26.5 billion in 2006. CRT monitors will …

Channel 26 Jun 2002, 15:13
Not so gay blades

Server Briefing Segments

Blades may not have become the biggest sector of the server market - contrary to some of the more bullish forecasts made last year - but these compact server-on-a-card machines are nevertheless likely to be one of the more active areas of the business over the coming years. It's not hard to see why. Blades allow cost-conscious …

Servers 26 Jun 2002, 15:43
AMD bags VIA, Zeus as server supporters

Not bad for a day's work

Two more companies today signed up to the AMD standards camp, with Zeus, the Internet server software guys, tipping up to write 64-bit extensions for Opteron, and VIA enlisting for the HyperTransport protocol brigade. OK, so Zeus is a bit niche (granted it's a successful player in a bloody big segment), but it is all grist to …

Channel 26 Jun 2002, 16:09
OpenSSH hits the fan

Get patching!

A serious vulnerability in default installation of OpenSSH on the OpenBSD operating system has come to light. A vulnerability exists within the "challenge-response" authentication mechanism in the OpenSSH daemon (sshd), according to an alert issued today by Internet Security Systems. This mechanism, part of the SSH2 protocol, …

Security 26 Jun 2002, 20:34