Robert Lemos

A group of four computer scientists say Windows Update — and other patch services — should be redesigned, after they create a technique to quickly produce attack code from a distributed patch.
SecurityFocus

Follow-up: Patch paper redux: Move along please

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ERP has been a kind of final frontier for open source software. But now more IT leaders at midsize and smaller businesses are saying yes to open source software for ERP systems that pump the very heart of the business.
CIO.com

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Sometimes, IT leaders are told that the company runs Windows, period. But that doesn’t stop them from wishing for the forbidden fruit: One CIO explains why he’d like to bring Apple to his enterprise.
CIO.com

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For some tech chiefs, the Apple magic wears off. Here’s why one IT leader recently came back to the Windows world, after spending years on the Mac side.
CIO.com

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A hundred years after an asteroid flattened 2,000 square kilometers of forest in Russia, scientists are proposing to use satellites to keep tabs on potential repeat occurrences.
Wired News

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One hundred years ago Frenchman Paul Cornu piloted a twin-rotor helicopter of his own design, and rose about one foot (0.3 meter) off the ground. He hovered for about 20 seconds. Or he didn’t. A century after that maiden flight, some engineers and historians question whether Cornu’s craft could have taken wing as he described [...]

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The National Retail Federation sends a letter asking that its members be allowed to decide what credit-card data to keep.
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The standard Sputnik story goes like this: It was the launch of this metal ball that forced the United States to elevate the pursuit of science. But that’s not quite true. Technically speaking, Sputnik was no more sophisticated than a cheap transmitter from Radio Shack attached to 120 pounds of batteries. It was the R-7 [...]

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A Congressional committee claims that Unisys allowed malicious code to infect federal systems.
SecurityFocus

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Space industry executives lamented Wednesday that the United States will likely have to rely on other countries to send men, women and materials into space. The nation’s most visible launch vehicle, the space shuttle, will have its wings clipped in 2010, and current plans for a successor rocket to lift cargo and crew into orbit [...]

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