Sam Costello

Despite George W. Bush being in office as U.S. President for over a year, his predecessor Bill Clinton returned Friday to plague e-mail inboxes everywhere.

IBM Corp. and BEA Systems Inc. tied for first place in terms of revenue in the market for J2EE (Java 2 Enterprise Edition) application servers in 2001, according to new research by the Giga Information Group Inc.

As vice-president and chief technology officer of Hewlett-Packard Co., Rich DeMillo is responsible for many things: guiding the company's technology strategies, overseeing the chief technology officer of each HP business unit and security, among other things. Now that HP's acquisition of Compaq Computer Corp. seems to have succeeded, DeMillo sat down with the IDG News Service last week after his keynote speech at the Worcester Polytechnic Institute's Molecular Engineering conference to discuss HP, security and where the two will be going over the next few years.

A buffer overflow in a library common to most Linux systems could cause a serious security hole that allows those systems to be remotely attacked and taken over, according to a security alert issued by Linux security firm Guardian Digital Inc.

In a deal designed to push the adoption of 3G wireless technology, Lucent and Compaq announced they would work together to ensure compatibility between Compaq

Corporations were hit with a monthly average of 113 virus infections for every 1,000 computers they owned in 2001, according to the seventh annual survey of virus prevalence in the enterprise conducted by ICSA Labs, a division of security services firm TruSecure Corp.

Antivirus firms F-Secure Corp. and Central Command Inc. warned users Tuesday that the Klez.e worm, which can delete files, halt the work of security programs and spread itself when an infected e-mail is opened, is set to trigger Wednesday. Users are urged to update antivirus definitions and scan their machines as soon as possible.

If you thought computer security was bad in 2001, you