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========================================================= Sponsored by Xerox Office Printing Business Get productivity to burn, without burning a hole in your budget. Enter to win an $11,000 Business Upgrade Package (USD) or a Xerox Phaser(R) 8400 Color Printer. Visit Xerox to enter. http://eletters.eweek.com/zd1/cts?d=79-1066-2-3-308321-121075-1 ========================================================= September 7, 2004 ========================================================= In This Edition ========================================================= 1. News: Multiple High-Risk Flaws in DB2 2. News: IT Jobs Return Home 3. News: Spammers Skirt IP Authentication Attempts 4. Opinion: Authentication Is Not an Anti-Spam System 5. News: 'Longhorn' Lag Is Linux Gain 6. News: Microsoft Sees Open-Source Threat Looming Ever Larger 7. News: EMC, Veritas Tune Mail Archiving 8. Blog: A New Take on the Mac Tablet For the latest in enterprise technology, bookmark eWEEK.com. http://eletters.eweek.com/zd1/cts?d=79-1066-2-3-308321-121078-1 ========================================================= News and Views ========================================================= 1. News: Multiple High-Risk Flaws in DB2 Next Generation Security Software has announced multiple high-risk vulnerabilities in IBM DB2. IBM has released new "Fixpacks" to address two of the issues in DB2 Universal Database for Linux, Unix and Windows Versions 7.x and 8.1. Are your databases protected? http://eletters.eweek.com/zd1/cts?d=79-1066-2-3-308321-121081-1 Database Security http://eletters.eweek.com/zd1/cts?d=79-1066-2-3-308321-121084-1 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ 2. IT Jobs Return Home For all its promise of cost savings, enterprises disillusioned and dissatisfied with offshoring IT labor are starting to bring that work home. See what they're finding are the downfalls of outsourcing. http://eletters.eweek.com/zd1/cts?d=79-1066-2-3-308321-121087-1 Outsourcing the Enterprise http://eletters.eweek.com/zd1/cts?d=79-1066-2-3-308321-121090-1 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ 3. News: Spammers Skirt IP Authentication Attempts As enterprises continue to register Sender Protection Framework records, hoping to thwart spam and phishing attacks, spammers are upping the ante in the war on spam and registering their own SPF records. E-mail security experts have more. http://eletters.eweek.com/zd1/cts?d=79-1066-2-3-308321-121093-1 Canning Spam http://eletters.eweek.com/zd1/cts?d=79-1066-2-3-308321-121096-1 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ 4. Opinion: Authentication Is Not an Anti-Spam System Already we're hearing it, that spammers are beating SPF and the other authentication systems. But the truth has always been that authentication is only a tool for anti-spam systems to use. http://eletters.eweek.com/zd1/cts?d=79-1066-2-3-308321-121099-1 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ 5. News: 'Longhorn' Lag Is Linux Gain When Microsoft announced last week it was scaling back the feature set for the next version of Windows, code-named Longhorn, it may have inadvertently given competitors the opening they'd been looking for. Find out why. http://eletters.eweek.com/zd1/cts?d=79-1066-2-3-308321-121102-1 Longhorn http://eletters.eweek.com/zd1/cts?d=79-1066-2-3-308321-121105-1 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ 6. News: Microsoft Sees Open-Source Threat Looming Ever Larger Microsoft is facing growing pressure from open-source software across every segment of its business--a competitive threat that could have significant consequences for its financial future going forward, the software maker said in its latest 10-K filing to the Securities and Exchange Commission this week. Get the full story on its latest SEC filing. http://eletters.eweek.com/zd1/cts?d=79-1066-2-3-308321-121108-1 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ 7. News: EMC, Veritas Tune Mail Archiving EMC and Veritas are building up their respective e-mail archiving offerings through development and acquisition to give customers more stringent control of enterprise content. http://eletters.eweek.com/zd1/cts?d=79-1066-2-3-308321-121111-1 Storage http://eletters.eweek.com/zd1/cts?d=79-1066-2-3-308321-121114-1 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ 8. 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