Mainframe by committee

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• Mainframe by committee
• Bidgoli's new MIS 2010 textbook a gold mine
• BT offers IP telephony service in U.S.
• Apple Boots Alleged iTunes Hacker: How to Stay Safe
• Database admin sentenced for hacking employer's network
• Adobe fails to fully fix PDF bug
• DefCon contest to spotlight social engineering
• Atlanta Has Dubious Honor of Highest Malware Infection Rate

Mainframe by committee Posted: 07 Jul 2010 09:00 AM PDT This is the last newsletter in a series that has explored our premise that we are returning to a new era of mainframe computing. This newsletter will describe what is meant by a mainframe, provide an example of the emerging generation of mainframe computer and will talk about how some old friends don't like each other much these days.

Bidgoli's new MIS 2010 textbook a gold mine Posted: 07 Jul 2010 09:00 AM PDT In my opinion, Hossein Bidgoli's MIS 2010 college textbook is going to be the missing link in college education for our students by preparing them for real life applications of the computer science and systems engineering they have been studying for years.

BT offers IP telephony service in U.S. Posted: 06 Jul 2010 09:00 AM PDT On the same day Verizon announced it was planning to launch a hosted unified communications and collaboration service based on Cisco's solution, BT also announced plans to extend its hosted IP telephony service to business customers in the United States. The BT service, initially launched in the UK in December 2009, also allows businesses to bring converged services to the desktop in, using BT and Cisco's cloud computing-based technologies.

Apple Boots Alleged iTunes Hacker: How to Stay Safe Posted: 06 Jul 2010 09:00 AM PDT A Vietnamese-based iPhone application developer may have recently bilked unsuspecting iPhone users out of hundreds of dollars in an apparent hack of the iTunes App Store. The apparent scam became public over the July 4th weekend after several news reports that 42 out of the 50 top ranked e-book applications in iTunes were all being sold by a seller named Thuat Nguyen. The rise of Nguyen's apps corresponded with a spike in complaints of iTunes accounts being hacked and overcharged.

Database admin sentenced for hacking employer's network Posted: 06 Jul 2010 09:00 AM PDT A former senior database administrator at a Houston electricity provider was sentenced Tuesday to one year in prison for hacking into his former employer's computer network, the U.S. Department of Justice said.

Adobe fails to fully fix PDF bug Posted: 06 Jul 2010 09:00 AM PDT An Adobe patch for a well-publicized bug in the company's Reader PDF software doesn't fix the vulnerability, the security researcher who uncovered the flaw confirmed.

DefCon contest to spotlight social engineering Posted: 06 Jul 2010 09:00 AM PDT How strong is your schmooze? That is the question participants in an upcoming contest at this year's Defcon event will attempt to answer at the end of July. The Social Engineering CTF (capture-the-flag contest) is sponsored by the group that runs the website social-engineer.org and will ask contestants to gather information and then plan a realistic and appropriate attack vector, according to Chris Hadnagy, one of the site's founders.

Atlanta Has Dubious Honor of Highest Malware Infection Rate Posted: 06 Jul 2010 09:00 AM PDT New York and Los Angeles are major metropolitan areas with exponentially larger populations than most other US cities, so they lead the way for total volume of malware infections. If you break the infection rate down per capita based on population, though, Atlanta comes out on top (or is it on the bottom?) of the heap with the highest malware infection rate.

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