Stories about: Jungle

When attackers gained access to personal information on 19,000 students at Carnegie Mellon University last April, business and network administrators there began a systemwide review of data policies. As a result, the university drastically reduced its use of Social Security numbers (SSN) and implemented new security-management controls around its Oracle databases. But when it came to protecting data extracted from a database, Joe Jackson, system architect at the school, was at a loss.

Search engines deliver links to dangerous Web sites that download spyware and adware to visitors' PCs, exploit security vulnerabilities and attempt to scam users and include them in spam lists, a new study has found.

You know it's the end of an era when Sun Microsystems co-founder Scott McNealy steps down as CEO after 22 years at the helm.

Reducing the complexity involved in deploying and managing wide area networks was the impetus for a Melbourne-based start-up to develop an all-in-one appliance that may cut the cost of regional communications infrastructure by a factor of 20 against traditional equipment, according to the company.

Preaching the virtues of free software for two decades has not dimmed the enthusiasm of Richard Stallman, as audiences across Australia discovered last week.

Dear Colleagues: I've been in IT for 40 years, and I plan to retire at the end of this year. Yes, I'm retiring as the CIO, and I'm not being downsized, forcibly replaced or fired. I've been at my current company, Ace Hardware for 25 years. That's a long time in this day and age of the portable CIO. In fact, Computerworld.com reported December 22 that the average CIO tenure is 18 to 36 months.

Gartner vice president and analyst Gene Phifer yesterday urged IT professionals to cut back on the application jungle and move toward a real time enterprise.

The lion is the king of the jungle, but which big cat would you rather have inside your Apple server, a jaguar or a panther?

Up to 50 per cent of existing Wi-Fi operators will fail within the next two years as the market undergoes a massive “shakeout”, according to an Australian telco analyst.

Mitsubishi Electric has developed a optical transponder for use in high-end networking gear that promises to significantly reduce the amount of fiber-optic cable running around server rooms and through office buildings.

IT security threats will become more widespread and sophisticated in 2003, and end users will have to lift their game in order to contain those threats, according to Piti Pramotedham, managing director, Asia South, for Computer Associates International Inc.