July 24th, 2008

News to know: DNS flaw; Amazon; Microsoft shakeup; Facebook

Posted by Larry Dignan @ 3:27 am

Categories: General, News to know

Tags: Apple iPhone, DNS, Amazon.com Inc., Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Xbox, Flaw, Game Players, Domain Names, Networking, Security

Notable headlines:

Ryan Naraine: Researchers borrow from Google PageRank for network defense service

• Attack code published for DNS flaw
• Nate McFeters: |)ruid and HD Moore release part 2 of DNS exploit
• ‘Spam King’ escapes from federal prison
• iPhone vulnerable to phishing, spamming flaws
• Zack Whittaker: Another student hacks another police website
• Dancho Danchev: McAfee debunks recent vulnerabilities in AV software research, n.runs restates its position

Jason O’Grady: Hands-on: App Store Ad Hoc distributionMary Jo Foley: Microsoft splits its Platforms & Services unit in two. Techmeme

Larry Dignan: No e-commerce worries here? Amazon doubles earnings

Steve O’Hear: F8: Zuckerberg’s keynote takeaways. Techmeme

Bausch & Lomb puts new CIO in charge of customer service

• Michael Krigsman: Executive ’sleepership’
• Delivering nada. Zip. Zilch. Zero.

Gallery: Broadband in a sewer (right)

Tom Foremski: Intuit cut 575 jobs - is this ‘user generated unemployment’?

Jennifer Leggio: Enterprise communities: build or join?

• Dennis Howlett: MindTouch Deki: Kilen Woods release
• Ryan Stewart: Entellium puts a video game spin on CRM with a desktop RIA
• Phil Wainewright: PaaS embraces client access licensing

Gizmodo: Why We Still Need the iPhone App Black Market Mossberg: Apple’s MobileMe Is Far Too Flawed To Be ReliableLarry Dignan: Can Ubuntu win the OS beauty pageant?

• Cisco acquires Pure Networks, home networking software
• AT&T’s quarter hits mark; Wireless churn falls; iPhone 3G sells well
• Survey: Corporations hold out on Vista

Heather Clancy: Accenture gets deeper into the green IT services game Super-duper green computers

When should you do a major hardware upgrade?

TechRepublic: Destroying the planet one iPhone at a time

• SolutionBase: Does the Cisco Self-Defending Network really work?

Adrian Kingsley-Hughes: The $200 web tablet … dream on!

Roland Piquepaille: Ultra-light micro air vehicles

Christopher Dawson: Managing growth - a followup to yesterday’s guest blog

Dan Kusnetzky: Virtual Iron Customer Profile: Goodell DeVries Leech & Dann, LLP

Dana Blankenhorn: Fortify sets off FUD flood

Paul Murphy: DTrace and the Linux bunker mentality

Tom Foremski: Joichi Ito - from venture capitalist to venture communist?

Richard Koman: COPA is unconstitutional

• Inside the mind - and config - of Terry Childs
• SF mayor gets back to the keys to the city
• Judge refuses to reduce ‘rogue’ admin’s bail

Google: Knol is open to everyoneAndrew Nusca: MSI to build LG’s X110 netbook?

Jason Perlow: Apple: Perception is Reality

News.com: Report: AMD will split into separate companies

Dana Blankenhorn: Why are vendors waiting for the SFLC lawsuit?

Deb Perelman: Do college degrees get you anywhere?

Steve O’Hear: Social browser Flock wants to be fashionable

Tom Steinert-Threlkeld: 166 Frames of Fame

John Carroll: Free the XBOX 360!!!

• Microsoft gives a new Xbox 360 experience
  
• Microsoft turns to users for new wave of Xbox games
• Gallery: New user interface for Xbox 360 (right)