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Microsoft fails to use own security product (IDG News)
Microsoft has bragged that its ISA Server is a consummate worm killa -- an "enterprise firewall and secure application gateway designed to protect the enterprise network from hacker intrusion and malicious worms." So why has the SQL Server arm of the company picked another company's product to keep worms out? SQL Labs is using NetScreen's security appliance to guard the door.
NEWS
Web servers the favorite among attackers (SearchWebManagement)
The buffer overflow flaw announced this week in Sun's iPlanet Web server is just the latest in a series of vulnerabilities detected in Web servers this year. Microsoft's Internet Information Server and the open source Apache Web server have had their share of bugs uncovered this year. The discoverer of the iPlanet flaw has some advice on how to deal with it all.
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DLL management
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Extend the boundaries of your help desk
Windows XP's Remote Assistance gives tech support direct access to users desktops. But XP migration and security can still be tricky. Here are some tips from contributor Serdar Yegulalp to keep you on track.
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THE MISSING LINK
Council bans e-mail
Liverpool -- it's the U.K. seaport that gave the world the Beatles and took away e-mail on Wednesdays. The council there decided city employees need to think outside the inbox since 6,000 workers are sending one another 40,000 messages per day. So in an effort to "de-geek" the staff and get them to actually talk to each other once in a while, the council has banned internal e-mails one day per week. City officials insist the e-free hump day isn't just a way to keep employees from spending all day messaging each other. They think e-mails make it too easy to pass the buck by forwarding tricky questions to colleagues so they never get answered. Umm, does that happen?
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