6th August 2006 Archive

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• Researchers warn over web worms

  Right here, right now

  LAS VEGAS - Exploiting a lack of security checks in browsers and Web servers, web worms and viruses are likely to become a major threat to surfers, security researchers speaking at the Black Hat Briefings warned on Thursday. In separate presentations, researchers showed off techniques for using Javascript code on Web pages to …

  Anti-Virus 6 Aug 2006, 07:02

• Police data leak case clashes with Durant judgment

  Jilted lover's sister traces policeman-ex

  A police employee has been found guilty of using police systems to pass on information about a policeman to his jilted lover. Jacqueline Rooney breached the Data Protection Act, the criminal appeals court found. The judgment clashes with a recent verdict which seemed to define personal information very narrowly, according to a …

  Music and Media 6 Aug 2006, 07:02

• More on CMDB – and Active Repositories

  Report of a reader conversation on email

  I've been having a conversation (via email) with BillN, prompted by my piece on CMDB here. I thought that I’d reproduce the conversation, with his permission, and see if anyone else had ideas in this area (there's some more background on CMDB here). BillN: That was verrry interesting… A planning tool that can use the CMDB for …

  Developer 6 Aug 2006, 09:56