Strategic Inflection Point: The Diminishing Importance of Windows

For the last two months, I’ve been struggling with an intellectual problem. Generally, it concerns the question of where the microcomputer desktop market, and, small business computing market are heading. Throughout all of my professional career in IT, the predominance of Microsoft has been unquestioned in the microcomputer desktop and small business server space. This [...]

World’s Largest PPI Theft Announced Yesterday

The largest exposure of personal private information (PPI), affecting 45.7 million consumer credit card numbers, was reported by the Framingham, Mass.-based retail giant TJX Companies, Inc. The exposure was released in their quarterly SEC filing and announced by the Boston Globe last night, although the incidents happened in December 2006; the gag on the press [...]

Hacking with Google

So you’re interested in using Google to pass you a heads up on a black hat exploit? Google hacking has been reported in the news for about the last year and a half. Google indexes the heck out the web – people are starting to take it seriously. It goes like this. Say you uncovered [...]

Hackers Strike UltraDNS

Surprised that this didn’t make better headlines but hackers from South Korea successfully attacked 3 out of the 12 Internet DNS root servers last month. There was a scramble to thwart the attack and redirect name resolution traffic; it was the biggest attack since 2002. http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/17011675/ If it were successful, the attackers would have successfully [...]