April
19, 2003
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- Five
Biggest Trends in Tech According to Forbes
- Standardization
for low cost hardware and software
- Open
source software for reliable, secure, low cost code
- Wireless
networking for the home and for the last mile
- Database
driven web technology for integration e-business applications
- Selling
software as a service as application service provider
- The
Art of War by Sun Tzu
- Sun
Tzu paraphrased, “The general who sees the battlefield more clearly
than the opponent, can respond to developments faster than the opponent,
and can do it in a way not seen by the enemy, will prevail.”
- This
is accomplished by getting the right information to the right people
at the right time.
- Information
Technology is central to this process (Information Centric Warfare)
- IT
has also invaded B-schools…..responsible for e-business thrust
- Cadets
train for cyber-warfare
- The
Cyber Defense Exercise conducted this week among the nation's service
academies is a new kind of drill to prepare a new kind of military.
- The
third annual drill, which ran Monday through Thursday, included
computer specialists from the three major military academies as
well as institutions like the U.S. Coast Guard Academy.
- At
West Point, a "blue team" of a few dozen cadets faced
off against a "red team" of hackers from the National
Security Agency
- War
video games take over sales charts
- Combat-themed
video games dominated the U.S. sales charts in early April
- NovaLogic's
"Delta Force: Black Hawk Down" topped the list of best-selling
PC games
- In
four of the last five weeks, fully 50 percent of the top games list
has been either stand-alone war games, or add-on packages for existing
war games.
- Holding
the No. 2 spot Electronic Arts Inc. with "Command & Conquer:
Generals
- Responding
to criticism that it was trying to take advantage of the Iraq war
for commercial gain, Sony
Corp said on Wednesday it will not use the phrase "shock and
awe" for PlayStation videogames made by a subsidiary.
- 10th
Anniversary of the Browser
- April
22, 1993 Mosaic was released by the University of Illinoiss’ National
Center for Supercomputing Applications.
- Marc
Andreeson was on that student design team.
- Mosica
1.0, was the first graphic browser and spanned Netscape Browser.
- Impact
of that application cannot be overstated.
- Internet
Security Alliance
- Joint
public-private partnership
- Resources
of note
- Penetrating
the Great Wall of China
- Voice
of America broadcasts has commissioned software that lets Chinese
Web surfers sneak around the boundaries set by their government.
- The
software enables PC users running Microsoft's Windows XP or 2000
operating systems to set up a simple version of what's known as
a circumvention Web server, or a computer that essentially digs
a tunnel under a firewall set up by a government, corporation, school
or other organization.
- The
government has blocked popular search engines. In one U.S. study,
China was found to be blocking 19,000 Web sites including those
providing news, health information, political coverage and entertainment
- The
software, which uses Secure Sockets Layer (SSL),
lets the person who installs it set up a miniature Web site through
which a firewall-restricted surfer can access the rest of the Web.
- Haselton
on Wednesday posted instructions on how
to use the software on his Peacefire Web site.
- "We
Love the Iraqi Information Minister"
Website
Is Very Popular
- WeLoveTheIraqiInformationMinister.com
devoted to Iraqi Information Minister Muhammed Saeed al-Sahhaf
- "It
was as if a Monty Python character had been parachuted into the
lobby of the Palestine Hotel," according to webmaster.
- Selected
quotes from Information Minister:
- "There
are no American infidels in Baghdad. Never!"
- "My
feelings - as usual - we will slaughter them all"
- "Our
initial assessment is that they will all die"
- "I
blame Al-Jazeera - they are marketing for the Americans!"
- "God
will roast their stomachs in hell at the hands of Iraqis."
- "They're
coming to surrender or be burned in their tanks.”
- New
Security Standards for Managers
- Security
is on every IT manager’s priority list, but what is security and
how can executives measure and promote their efforts?
- The
initiative aims establish practical guidelines that draws on corporate
experience with accounting principles.
- Information
releases at the RSA 2003 Conference
- The
Generally Accepted Information Security Principles (GAISP) are intended
to be a set of guidelines similar to the Generally Accepted Accounting
Principles (GAAP) that U.S. corporations follow when they submit
their financial reports. GAISP will include a set of procedures
by which any company can derive its own security architecture.
- The
industry group promoting the principles, Information Systems Security Association
(ISSA) , will pitch GAISP as a badge of honor that companies can
use to boast that they are secure.
- The
work began in 1990 under the name GASSP (Generally Accepted System
Security Principles), and draws on other work including IS 17799,
the standard for a security code of practice from the International
Organization for Standardization (ISO), which was originally
developed by the British Standards Institute.
- FTC
Files Suit Against Sender of Porn 'Spam'
- The
Federal Trade Commission is suing one of the country's most active
purveyors of pornographic junk e-mail, part of a stepped-up push
by the agency to combat spam.
- The
lawsuit, filed Tuesday in federal court in Illinois, alleges Brian
D. Westby of Missouri violated federal laws by sending e-mail whose
deceptive subject lines, such as "What is wrong?" and
"Fwd: You may want to reboot your computer," camouflaged
the actual content: images of scantily clad women and links to 20
porn Web sites Westby operated, many of them featuring "married
but lonely" women.
- FTC
officials said its spam database, which is receiving about 120,000
e-mails per day forwarded by citizens, collected 46,000 from Westby's
various endeavors.
- The
agency further alleged Westby used "spoofing" -- a common
spammer practice that disguises the Internet address of the computer
that sends the spam -- and provided a means of unsubscribing from
e-mail lists that did not work.
- Stratford
News
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in Telecommunication Systems
- Enterprise
Business Management
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in Hospitality Management, Business Administration, Information
Mangement
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- IT
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