Microsoft brought about her ship-of-the-line and began a broadside against bilge-soaked software pirates around the country. Microsoft aimed her guns, in the guise of lawyers at companies in California, Arizona, Illinois, Minnesota and New York and filed eight lawsuits charging copyright and trademark infringement.
New bagles are flooding the web and it's not through your local bakery either. The British security company, SophosLabs, continues to monitor the flow of new versions of the Troj/BagleDI-U Trojan horse by spamming millions of email addresses.
Top Internet security firm Symantec secured $1 million in restitution from a software piracy operation based in Houston, Texas. Li Chen pled guilty to one count of trademark infringement and agreed to the restitution as part of the plea bargain.
The Chinese handed over Randolph Hobson Guthrie to U.S. authorities in Los Angeles to face multiple charges of copyright infringement last week. The Chinese convicted Guthrie of selling pirated DVDs and he's to appear in U.S. federal court today for a bond hearing.
Microsoft announced plans for securing their IT future today in Munich and discussed their Microsoft Client Protection for guarding enterprise desktops. They also unleashed the SecureIT Alliance. The consortium is dedicated to protecting all customers from the evils that Internet hackers do.
The Liberty Alliance Project released their new guidelines for federated identity management on Tuesday. The global consortium helps organizations manage business, legal and privacy standards regarding the deployment of both open federated identity standards and identity-based web standards.
Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer spoke on Wednesday at the Gartner Symposium/ITxpo. He covered a number of topics and one stuck out prominently. The security concerns for Windows: Vista have been paramount in discussions because various versions of Windows have been brutally attacked by hackers all over the world for years.
One of the big issues in the cyber realm today is cyber scamming and none appear to be cyber scamming better than the Nigerians. Every day, I get emails from scammers trying to get me to help them get money in the U.S. or I've won a lottery or some one needs to be rescued. I'm sure you've gotten some too. Why do they do this? "SHOW ME THE MONEY!"
The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) said last week in the Federal Register they are laying down the law on colleges and universities, online communications companies and cities to make it easier for the federal government to comb emails and other electronic communications.
I received a letter from my mortgage company telling me my information had been compromised. It would seem my primary lender had a security breach in the form of stolen laptops. They had a private firm working on software and this firm left the computer with all my data in the trunk of their car. Those computers were stolen.
Virginia based Cybertrust released results on Wednesday of a study of 700 enterprises and the impact of the Zotob worm to organizations worldwide. The damage caused by the Zotob worm affected Windows 2000 systems back in August and created real problems for the impacted systems.
The folks at IBM's Almaden Labs have an AXE in the pipeline. The new program will keep viruses and worms from running sans antivirus software.
Consumer confidence is always a major factor in judging the state of the economy. Recent studies gauge consumer confidence and usage in the Internet. These studies show more people are using the Internet and more people are making purchases online. It also shows those people are much more cautious about all their online business.
An interview with Jason Della Rocca of the International Game Developers Association (IGDA).Click here for the full article.
This interview with Gustavo Alvear of Colombia, South America is the first in the developer.* Global Development Interview Series.Click here for the full article.
This interview with Turki Al-Aseeri, who works in the software development industry in Saudi Arabia, is the second in the series.Click here for the full article.
We may not receive a lot of public recognition, but developers are a lot like actors or directors, our careers punctuated by each software smash. It's amazingly easy to fall into the typecasting trap.Click here for the full article.
These essays by Jack W. Reeves offer three perspectives on a single theme, namely that programming is fundamentally a design activity and that the only final and true representation of "the design" is the source code itself.Click here for the full article.
Who owns the copyright to custom software--the person who designed and coded it, or the person who commissioned the work? The answer might surpise you.Click here for the full article.
Useful documentation has its place, but it should be succinct, worded simply, and presented well.Click here for the full article.
"All this time, when we've talked about design, we've been playing around on the periphery of the subject." A classic essay.Click here for the full article.
The people who come and go in a software shop may eventually be forgotten, but the tracks programmers leave behind make a lasting impression.Click here for the full article.
Typically, the developer finds management to be of two different mindsets when it comes to open source. They are either supportive because they believe it is an inexpensive solution, or they are not supportive because of the perceived risks associated with its use...Click here for the full article.
Cockburn's tolerance for extensibility and flexibility offers practitioners a foot-hold for transitioning toward agile practices.Click here for the full article.
Introduce yourself to the concepts of general systems thinking and learn a powerful problem solving tool called the causal loop diagram.Click here for the full article.
