Development

If you told residents of Winsford, England, that their personal computers had been turned into an invisible electronic army, they'd probably think you're mad. But the 33,000-person town in northwest part of the country reportedly has one of the highest rates of computers infected with programs that receive and respond to commands from other remote computers.

Attackers have found a new vehicle for launching attacks targeting client-based computer systems, and traditional network defenses are no longer sufficient to protect against these breaches, a recent security report said. According to the latest Internet Security Threat Report from Cupertino, Calif.-based Symantec Corp., over half of the attacks reported over the past six months infected Web application technologies. Seventy four per cent of these attacks involved exposure of confidential information such as keystroke logging software and Trojans.

SOA presents a paradox: turning applications into platform-agnostic services is a great way to reduce redundancy and accelerate integration, but where can you turn for architectural guidance that avoids the vendor lock-in that SOA is supposed to prevent in the first place?

As part of its two-year-old effort to move legacy mainframe systems to a service-oriented architecture (SOA), Sabre Holdings Corp. in May began dispatching

Every major enterprise applications vendor has hopped on the SOA (services-oriented architecture) bandwagon and extolled the virtues of using standards-compliant software to expose business processes as Web services, reducing the pain of integrating heterogeneous systems. But for customers, implementing an SOA environment in their own data centres can be a complex and lengthy process. One chief technology officer nearing the end of a five-year SOA project says the results, though a long time coming, are worth it.

A security hole in a popular development tool has severe implications for a number of the Internet

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In the face of smarter and more sophisticated criminal attacks, Standard Bank of South Africa is ramping up its efforts to protect its customers.