Hellen added: "There is a certain sys admin culture which might make the patches issued ignored. Microsoft has responded by changing the default security settings on the latest versions of IIS, and by making it easier for sys admins to find patches...
Mark Tennant, Windows 2000 product manager at Microsoft, told silicon.com: "I don't agree with Ian's views about sys admins. Microsoft has admitted it regrets the comments made by one of its security chiefs who blamed "laid back" system...
Sys man newbie* Tian claims deployment of broadband technologies will enable operators to segment customers into premium and economy classes where more would be paid for high quality broadband connections.
To my mind, the greatest risk is that back end systems holding more information about me than I care to think about get exposed because some admin person was in a hurry or just plain too busy. The issue has such a high profile now that it is even...
Alex Pannell, BT MPLS product manager, says: “The reality is that, at present, the number of customers actually taking advantage of technologies like differential classes of service (CoS) to enable convergence is relatively low.
Microsoft is also scheduled to release the second beta to its web development tool kit, called ASP.NET Ajax and code-named Atlas. The Atlas Ajax tool is designed to speed up development of web applications that run in a browser or on a server, he...