Two more WMF bugs

Security: The WMF issue just won't go away. Now, two more bugs are buzzing around, and even though these latest ones attack the same part of the OS for which Microsoft rushed out a patch last week, experts are saying they are less serious than their immediate predecessors.

Best of the blogs: As Roger Grimes points out in our new Security Adviser blog, both Microsoft and Dshield are reporting that the most recent WMF exploits are a DoS condition only. Thus far at least, Microsoft is claiming it plans to issue a fix within the normal round of patches. Deja vu, anyone?

The news beat: Accton says it may beat Netgear to market with the first Wif-Fi-based VoIP phone when it launches two handsets in the middle of February. Developers put OpenSolaris on PowerPC. And CA license's Funambol open source data synchronization software for mobile devices.

Outsourcing: Microsoft is setting up a research group in India to work on cryptography, and Oracle plans to increase its staff in India to 10,000.

Columnists' Corner: IT will give up control of the network. That sounds radical, indeed, but Ephraim Schwartz explains that with the volume of traffic increasing, and every connection moving a great deal more data, "the communications infrastructure and its management will be outsourced to providers that can offer the kind of always-on, always-secure QoS that the new volume and type of traffic requires."

Posted by Tom Sullivan on January 10, 2006 04:52 AM