Government cools on PKI

Failing PKI industry isn't growing fast enough to meet 2005 deadline. At the Internet Goes Public Conference in London yesterday, Steven Marsh, director of security policy at the Office of the e-Envoy, told the public sector audience that the government's commitment to Public Key Infrastructure (PKI) for authentication to its online services is in no way exclusive. He said that industry just hasn't grown in the way people thought it would five years ago. ...more

Google wags index at rivals

Google has marked its seventh birthday, by claiming that it has expanded its index of web pages to become three times larger than any other search engine. But the company also insists that numbers alone are not the true measure of search success, and remains coy about the exact size of the new index. Google is locked in a search battle with Yahoo! who had previously claimed to index the largest number of Web pages (19. ...more

eEye scans networks for slack patchers

eEye Digital has announced it is to marry its network scanner with management technologies from BigFix to pinpoint slack patchers. COO Firas Raouf explained: 'Our focus initially was selling this software scanner to IT administrators and security consultants. But the problem that you have with things like Blaster, Code Red, Nimda and so on, you wonder why these worms have such an impact when a patch has been available months before. ...more

Intel rejigs Xeon pricing

Intel has rejigged the pricing for its 32-bit Xeon server processor range. The 3.06GHz Xeon, with 1MB of L2 cache, is cut by 34 per cent, from $690 to $455. ...more

Firefox 1.5 makes its to RC2

The second release candidate version of Firefox 1.5 has been made available. Currently release notes have not been published, although we can safely say that the only changes from RC1 will be bug fixes. ...more