The code for Mstream, a powerful software tool designed to take down Web sites through distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks, has been posted on the Internet. A DDoS tool can remotely infect thousands of computers and use them to bombard a...
That all means we need a set of policies and procedures. As always with collaboration and communication tools, the main problem seems to be a lack of suitable corporate policies and procedures being in place.
On the flip side, the consultants were all contractors and the company did not have a complete project-implementation reference base. However, the customer feedback enabled it to develop an appropriate 'go to market' model as well as sales and...
Google has made an adjustment to its desktop search tool to foil attacks that take advantage of an unpatched vulnerability in Microsoft's ubiquitous Internet Explorer web browser. He crafted a web page which, when viewed in IE on a computer with...
This meant that month-end and year-end reporting procedures were becoming increasingly labour intensive. The university's capital accountant, Simon Mealor, said it wanted a fixed-asset system that could be "implemented centrally and used remotely...
It's supposed to be a democratic process, driven by national standards bodies, each of which can set its own procedures. Tim Bray, the writer of XML, wrote in his blog last week that Microsoft pushed for its OOXML standard to be accredited by the...