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Wicked websites on the rise

Wed, 04 Jul 2007 20:01:38 -0400

The number of documented dangerous, virus-ridden websites have skyrocketed over the past few months, going from 5,000 new ones a day in April 2007 to nearly 30,000 a day midway through the year. InformationWeek notes that there are two reasons for this increase. Reason 1: while hackers are creating more of their own malicious websites, in most cases, they're still hacking into legitimate sites and embedding malware into them. Reason 2: researchers are simply getting better at finding them.

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Oracle goes to Washington

Sun, 17 Jun 2007 20:01:39 -0400

Oracle has hired law firm Barbour Griffith & Rogers to lobby the federal government on a number of pressing issues, including immigration, intellectual property rights, trade and foreign investments, according to an eweek report. Former national security adviser and deputy assistant to President Bush, Robert Blackwell, is one of the lobbyists registered to work on behalf of Oracle. Blackwell also served as an ambassador to India. That background could come in very handy if Oracle lobbies for more H-1B Visa slots, the article notes. Oracle, along with Microsoft and IBM, is among the top three technology companies to hire H-1B employees in the United States. In 2006, Oracle brought in 1,022 workers from the H-1B pool, Microsoft brought in 3,117 visa holders and IBM 1,130 from the H-1B pool last year.

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Data center bloat continues

Thu, 24 May 2007 20:01:39 -0400

As data centers get more complex, executives are turning to technologies and processes like ITIL, storage capacity management and virtualization to consolidate and simplify their environments, according to a new study conducted by Symantec. The study, a result of interviews with 500 IT professionals worldwide, notes that the most common complaints among those surveyed stem from frustrations with rising numbers of servers and applications, the need to learn and implement more management tools and the hassles associated with managing multiple operating systems. Almost everyone interviewed said they would focus on consolidating data centers in the next year.

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Security Threats Are Up, New McAfee CEO Reports

Wed, 23 May 2007 20:01:39 -0400

Many of the industry folks who flocked to Las Vegas this week for the Interop trade show were focused on security issues, including Dave DeWalt, McAfee's new president and CEO. In his keynote, he said that we would see more malware in the next 18 months than we have in the past 20 years. DeWalt, who has only been on the job since early April, has been busy filling many of the "holes" in his management team, he told InformationWeek. He offered some pretty startling security stats: 37,413 new pieces of malware hit the Internet last year; he estimated that one out of four people will suffer some kind of digital crime.

For more on security threats:
- read the full story in Information Week