Pillar Data Systems Inc., a provider of enterprise network storage systems, has announced that the company will expand its support for customers of the Oracle Unbreakable Linux Support Program from Oracle Corp. This support provides users with a robust, fully-supported solution, Pillar Data said. The partnership will provide support for Oracle Enterprise Linux across Pillar [...]
Thousands of Chinese computers were disabled after a faulty update of Symantec’s Norton antivirus software mistakenly delete two critical Windows XP files.
The update to Chinese-language versions of the antivirus application, designed to catch harmful malware disguised as other files, identified XP system files as potentially harmful. The deleted files prevent Chinese users rebooting and reinstalling [...]
A virus writer with something to prove has written a proof-of-concept OpenOffice document to demonstrate a way to infect Windows, Linux and Mac OS X systems with a single script.
The virus, dubbed BadBunny by antivirus firm Sophos, is a script embedded in an OpenOffice Draw file and performs different actions based on the host’s operating [...]
DisplayLink Corp. has announced support for the Windows Aero 3-D interface in Windows Vista for its family of network display semiconductors, making it one of the first companies to enable USB 2.0 and WiMedia wireless display connections for Windows Vista.
The company will demonstrated this technology at WinHEC 2007 on DisplayLink-enabled products, including USB displays, notebook [...]
Extreme Networks, Inc. (Nasdaq: EXTR) announced that it is providing enterprise customers with integrated network security functionality for its Sentriant security solutions that extends to wired and wireless enterprise networks. These capabilities are on display this week at Interop, booth No. 1034, in Las Vegas.
To assist enterprises in creating a holistic security approach, Extreme Networks [...]
Cisco has announced an architected industry first integrated Wi-Fi chokepoint and telemetry services into the Cisco Location Solution. The Location Solution, which includes the Cisco Unified Wireless Network and integrated partner applications and active/passive tag offerings, is designed to mobilize assets across an enterprise environment. This solution is made possible by a new, major extension [...]
Demonstrations at Interop show how Wave Software uses Trusted Platform Module-based IPSec with Network Access Protection and Reports on the Integrity of the Network Access Protection Components
Wave Systems Corp. (NASDAQ: WAVX) will demonstrate how its EMBASSY® software integrates seamlessly with Microsoft’s Network Access Protection to offer hardware-based security designed to prevent “lying endpoint” attacks aimed [...]
The Cisco vs. Microsoft debate is being discussed again, this time at BusinessWeek, which has a story saying that although the two vendors work together to ensure their products interoperate - for their customers’ sakes - they are headed for a clash as they shift to networked computing.
As BW explains:
Now that [...]
In an unconventional request, some users of Linux and other open source software are inviting Microsoft to sue them.
The users have put their names on a public wiki as a way of protesting Microsoft’s recent claims that Linux and other open source software infringe on at least 235 of its patents. They’ve listed the open [...]
Nextlink, a leading provider of broadband wireless services and the nation’s largest holder of LMDS spectrum, today unveiled a major addition to its broadband wireless services portfolio that enables telecom service providers to offer businesses and government agencies an enhanced level of physical network diversity and redundancy utilizing Nextlink’s nationwide, carrier-grade broadband wireless networks and [...]
