Larry Seltzer

You have to give it to Apple. At least they’re trying, in their inexperienced way, to make the iPhone acceptable to enterprises. They even have a web page about it. The really bare-bones necessities may be there already: A mail client that can talk to Exchange Server, VPN support, some Oracle support. Perhaps most importantly, […]

The reports of domain tasting’s impending demise were met with skepticism in some quarters. The argument was that the new fees were insufficient, and that tasting would continue to be profitable. Domain Tasting, to recap, is a practice by domain speculators in which they register a domain and then drop the registration within 5 days. […]

The researchers who published a large study of Web browser security this week had a great idea and excellent data to work with. Too bad they overreached with their conclusions. A lot more is being made of this paper than is warranted. The researchers, from ETH Zurich, Google and IBM, looked at log data provided […]

PCs crash every now and then. We do what we can to prevent it, but we also have to prepare for when it happens. Any business that doesn’t have an effective backup plan, one that has been tested and has at least some off-site component, is being irresponsible. My favorite recent story of business backup […]

A new policy from ICANN will soon open up the Internet to a theoretically infinite number of new Top-Level Domains. How much of a difference will it make? In the short term, not a whole lot. In the long term it could have a big impact. I would argue it’s likely to cause more trouble […]

Last September, Errata Security CEO Robert Graham told us in an interview that SQL Injection was a great risk for Web sites based on many open-source tools and on older, pre-.Net Microsoft technologies. Boy, was that ever a prescient interview. Several months later, as Wired put it, a massive attack hit half a million Windows […]

The testing of anti-virus products has always been a tricky business. The better actors in that business are improving their standards, and this presents a challenge in testing. As I described recently, the most famous testing standards these days are bankrupt in terms of their value to users. The WildList and the VB100 tests which […]

Firefox 3 is finally here. I’ve been testing the betas and release candidates off and on and there’s no doubt it’s an improvement on Firefox 2, probably a big improvement. I’m moving over to it. Click here to read a gushing review of Firefox 3. For me, the biggest improvement in Firefox 3 is that […]

In this era in which software, especially prominent software, must be presumed to be under attack, you need the best tools to defend yourself. Much has been made of security features built into Windows Vista, such as IE Protected Mode, which accrue to all users. However, programmers can easily gain new security defenses for their […]

Patch Tuesday is a big deal for everyone, including people at Microsoft. Starting not too long ago, Microsoft bloggers started getting active on Patch Tuesday. Sometimes they just reiterate what is in the advisories themselves, sometimes they add useful and interesting information. This month (so far) I saw three entries. The most interesting one is […]