A controlled security challenge still provides valuable lessons.
- By Dian Schaffhauser
- September 01, 2002
A review of CBT Nuggets' video-based MCSE training.
- By James Carrion
- September 01, 2002
A back-to-basics look at subnetting.
- By Bill Heldman
- September 01, 2002
Smart cards can dramatically enhance your organization’s security. Here’s what you need to know.
- By Bill Boswell
- September 01, 2002
Is it better to specialize or be a jack-of-all-trades?
- By Steve Crandall
- September 01, 2002
Security checklists are valuable—but only if you use them. Follow along on Microsoft’s list and harden a server.
- By Roberta Bragg
- September 01, 2002
Hacks are a fact in a connected world. After discovering and expelling the intruders, you have to clean up their messes.
- By Chad Todd
- September 01, 2002
Influencers who want bigger decision-making responsibilities, smart cards that are only as smart as the implementers, and a lucky find.
- By MCP Magazine Readers
- September 01, 2002
The aptly titled Writing Secure Code prescribes a best practices approach to hardening your code.
- By Mike Gunderloy
- September 01, 2002
Hate it or hate it more, product activation is a necessary evil in the XP world. Here’s how to ease the pain.
- By Chris Brooke
- September 01, 2002
AMD converted its highest-end multiprocessing server and workstation chip to 0.13-micron technology. The AMD Athlon MP processor 2200+ can run in dual-processor servers and workstations.
- By Scott Bekker
- August 30, 2002
The IDC research contradicts an earlier report published by Gartner Dataquest that put the new HP out front.
- By Scott Bekker
- August 30, 2002
Microsoft changed the name of the family of server operating systems it plans to release next year to Windows .NET Server 2003, company representatives said late Thursday.
The new name is the fourth for the family of server operating systems.
- By Scott Bekker
- August 29, 2002
Microsoft alerted users to a critical vulnerability involving an ActiveX control that ships in all supported Windows clients. A patch is available.
- By Scott Bekker
- August 29, 2002
Worldwide usage of the AOL-Netscape Navigator browser hit a record low, according to outsourced Web analytics provider WebSideStory Inc.
"The browser war is in fact a massacre," WebSideStory StatMarket's vice president of marketing Geoff Johnston said in a statement. "Unless AOL makes a move soon, Netscape may find itself battling Opera for the last 1 [percent] to 2 percent of the market."
- By Scott Bekker
- August 29, 2002
The first service pack for Windows XP will be distributed within 10 days, the financial news agency Bloomberg reported. Microsoft discussed its plans with financial reporters in the context of its antitrust agreement with the U.S. Department of Justice.
- By Scott Bekker
- August 28, 2002
The new HP saw revenues sink and weathered a large loss in its first financial quarter operating as the product of the controversial merger between computer giants Hewlett-Packard and Compaq.
- By Scott Bekker
- August 28, 2002
Intel rolled out new versions of its premier desktop processors this week. The latest Pentium 4 desktop chips are closing in on the 3-GHz clockspeed threshold. Intel released Pentium 4s in speeds of 2.8 GHz, 2.66 GHz, 2.60 GHz and 2.50 GHz.
- By Scott Bekker
- August 26, 2002
Microsoft released a downloadable service built on its flagship SQL Server 2000 database for generating personalized notification messages for different client devices.
- By Scott Bekker
- August 26, 2002
Summer break? What summer break? Microsoft's security teams demonstrated that they're not sleeping during the dog days of summer this year when they issued patches for eight newly discovered security problems last week.
- By Scott Bekker
- August 26, 2002