Stories by: Deborah Radcliff

A teacher's style is his trademark. So when John DeAngelo, associate dean of IT at Temple University's Fox School of Business in Philadelphia, introduced the idea of electronic teaching in late 1998, he had to bring teachers along slowly to this new way of communicating with students.

Aiming to make Internet transactions over Palm's handheld devices more secure, RSA Security last week introduced the company's first security product for Palm.

There's no sign of recession inside the halls of the San Jose Convention Center for what is the largest attendance ever at Bedford, Massachusetts-based RSA Security Inc.'s RSA Conference 2002.

"When Windows XP is released, soon all hell will follow. New zombies and nanobots are waiting to exploit vulnerabilities. Be warned . . . " When an Australian hacker identified only as "Z" sent this e-mail message to Computerworld on Aug. 7, he was referring to a controversial paper claiming that hackers will exploit weaknesses in Microsoft's new Windows XP operating system to turn PCs into an unwitting army of denial-of-service (DOS) attack zombies.

Researchers have discovered a third vector to the Nimda worm, which is set to propagate again through e-mail at 3pm Sydney time on Friday (1am Eastern time).

About a year ago, Payet Guillermo's systems and Web development work called for more robust capabilities for the sharing of information and applications. That's when he started dabbling in XML.

Hackers, computer security managers and law enforcement officials teamed up at this week's Black Hat Briefings conference to discuss their respective roles in securing the Internet and to urge attendees who engage in hacking activities to stay on the right side of the law.

Three wireless-savvy IT managers predicted Monday that the rollout of wireless applications in the U.S. would continue to be slow for the next few years because of a low return on investment, lack of wireless coverage in many areas and lack of standards among the carriers.

Unless you've been living under a rock, you already know about the latest buffer-overflow vulnerability in the Berkeley Internet Name Domain (BIND) software, a domain name server (DNS) utility that matches Web server names to Internet Protocol addresses so people can find companies on the Web. By all accounts, BIND is the glue that holds the entire addressing scheme together, making up at least 80 percent of the Internet naming system.

Even with strong security, e-business risk is a fact of life in today's interconnected business world. But the fundamental problem with managing this new form of business risk, say IT managers, is that there are no metrics and no standards to measure the level of risk.

Unless you've been living under a rock, you already know about the latest buffer-overflow vulnerability in the Berkeley Internet Name Domain (BIND) software, a domain name server (DNS) utility that matches Web server names to Internet Protocol addresses so people can find companies on the Web. By all accounts, BIND is the glue that holds the entire addressing scheme together, making up at least 80 percent of the Internet naming system.