Top 20 vulnerabilities get Government thumbs up

Slow patching keeps old favourites on the list The US government and the SANS Institute have published the annual list of 20 most common security holes in a bid to spotlight and close weaknesses in Federal systems. This year's list reflects the growing popularity of Unix in both private and public sectors. The report now divides into two top 10 lists: one for Windows and another for Unix. ...more

Life's a beach

Cast out any thoughts of Leonardo Di Capro or donkey rides when you think of a beach. If you are missing the sun-kissed bliss of a day by the sea, you might just be able to buy your own. A clever punter has been selling sand from New Jersey's Atlantic Beach in an Internet auction. ...more

Gates outlines Longhorn

With all the talk of delays to the final release dates of Microsoft's next version of Windows - Longhorn - the operating system must have appeared to have taken a giant leap forward to attendees at the PDC conference yesterday, as Bill Gates and co demo many of the new features of the software. Bill Gates opened the Professional Developers Conference (PDC) in Los Angeles with the words: 'Welcome to the "Longhorn" PDC'. Longhorn, Microsoft's code-name for its next version of Windows, was very much the headline act for the sold-out show. ...more

Profitability stays out of reach for AMD

A growth in sales and reduced costs have not proved enough to get AMD back in the black, according to its latest quarterly financial report. The company reported a net loss of $140mn for the three months ending 29 June, 2003. This is slightly less than the net loss of $146mn in the previous three months and an improvement on the $185mn reported from the same period a year ago. ...more

IBM is top of the flops

IBM has overtaken Hewlett-Packard as the world's number one supplier of supercomputers. The latest Top 500 list shows IBM leading the way with 224 systems with a combined computing power of 407 teraflops, or trillions of calculations per second. IBM has overtaken Hewlett-Packard as the world's number one supplier of supercomputers. ...more