Matthew Broersma

Microsoft may have delayed Windows XP Service Pack 2 yet again this week, but IT managers are, in any case, not exactly champing at the bit to roll out the security-oriented update. The most eager IT departments contacted by eWEEK.com said they would deploy SP2 only after extensive testing. Others said the update was not […]

The City of Munich has put its planned migration to Linux of 14,000 desktop PCs on hold due to concerns over software patents, the citys CIO said on Tuesday night. The call for bids in the LiMux Project, as it is known in Germany, was due to begin last week. But on Friday, Green Party […]

Six wireless providers are set to begin installing equipment for cellar networks, Wi-Fi and Internet telephony in New York City street lamps, traffic lights and other prime real estate this summer under a plan expected to net the city more than $20 million a year, city officials said last week. T-Mobile USA Inc. and Nextel […]

Check Point Software Technologies Ltd. has released a fix for its virtual private networking products, addressing a highly critical bug that could allow an unauthenticated remote attacker to take over a vulnerable server. The vulnerability, which was discovered by Internet Security Systems, affects a wide range of Check Point products, including a particular ASN.1 decoding […]

Cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks have become one of the better-known Web security vulnerabilities over the past four years, but they are still easy to carry out on large sites handling sensitive information, such as major banks, as a U.K. researcher recently demonstrated. They make phishing attacks—which attempt to swipe user login information—harder to spot, even […]

The worlds top executives now cite security as the most critical aspect of their companies networks, but nearly four in five still click on e-mail attachments from strangers, according to a new survey from the Economist Intelligence Unit. The AT&T-backed survey was carried out by the business information arm of the Economist Group, publisher of […]

Japans NTT DoCoMo Inc. on Tuesday formally launched the N900iL, a handset combining 3G and IP telephony capability, the first such phone to appear from a major network operator. The handset, demonstrated by executives at the Tokyo launch, is nearly identical to NECs N900i, designed for FOMA, DoCoMos implementation of the WCDMA (Wideband Code Division […]

Alternative browser makers say they are seeing a huge and sustained boost in downloads spurred by the most recent Internet Explorer security concerns, but industry observers caution that switching browsers isnt necessarily a panacea. While the high-profile attacks of the past two weeks have affected only IE on Windows, other browsers already or could soon […]

Recent moves by such companies as Sun Microsystems and Computer Associates to dip their toes into the world of open source have reawakened interest in how open-source software licenses work, and what benefits they bring to software companies—if any. When companies such as Sun talk about making important products open source, what theyre really interested […]

Blogging pioneer Dave Winer has shut down the Weblogs of about 3,000 users on weblogs.com, one of the first blogging sites. Winer is a respected figure in Web development circles and was a driving force in the emergence of blogging and Web syndication; last year he took up a fellowship at the Berkman Center for […]