Jim Freund

Two Microsoft products, the Telnet service in Windows 2000, and the Telnet daemon (telnetd) in Interix 2.2, have an unchecked buffer in their code, thereby providing a buffer-overflow vulnerability that could allow a hacker to ‘own’ those servers. By sending a malformed request to such a server, an attacker could cause it to fail, and […]

It is belaboring the obvious to say that a desktop computer consists of a CPU and peripherals such as storage, keyboard, video display, mouse, and other add-ons. However, in some environments — such as factories or trading floors — it may be advantageous to place the CPU in one location and maintain the user interface […]

System configuration problems — caused by hardware or software conflicts, Registry errors, faulty drivers, deleted or corrupted system files — continue to plague help desks, consistently ranking among the top 10 sources of IT help desk calls. To aid overburdened tech support personnel, imagine LAN of Nashua, N.H., has announced RecoverySafe, a so-called eRecovery product […]

We all yearn for the more innocent time when the acronym DOS stood for your Disk Operating System, or even the Dept. of State for the better traveled. Today, however, it is a term that brings a chill to many technologists — Denial of Service. Initially, this was largely the realm of minor miscreants, who […]

Once again, a nasty worm is spreading itself around, and this time it’s a particularly insidious one. The worm is called Nimda, which is Admin spelled backwards. The reason this nasty bit of code is noteworthy is not because it’s innovative, but due to the fact that it uses three ways to propagate itself. Symantec’s […]

In light of the fact that the recent terrorist attacks have had a great impact upon businesses, particularly financial companies, network managers and IT departments are being put to the test this week, and will continue to be in coming months. Businesses that do not have a continuity plan in place will find themselves hard-put […]