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Linux rises to top dog in servers
Stephen Ellis | August 12, 2008
LAST week's LinuxWorld talkfest in San Francisco, which brought together 10,000 vendors and users of the open source operating system, offered yet another indicator of its growing popularity across enterprise IT groups and among developers. The steady march of Linux into ever more central areas of enterprise IT has been visible in the US for about seven or eight years, and has accelerated in the past two. Once consigned to "non-essential" functions such as serving web pages, Linux is increasingly the basis for software stacks that perform critical data centre tasks. This trend is likely to continue, and is a remarkable success story for software once ridiculed as unfit for corporate use, but the focus at LinuxWorld was not the story to date, as much as the future - where Linux and the open source apps that often sit atop it may be headed next.
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Today, 15,000 new viruses will be created to steal or damage your data. Scary though this sounds, there are Antivirus (AV) companies and their software out there doing battle every second of every day.
These threats come in many forms. In fact, by the time you finish reading this sentence, approximately 70 new variants of Malware—Viruses, Trojans, Worms, Rootkits, Spyware, and more—will have been released in the world today.
Threats are evolving by the second. It's no longer just about Viruses. Spyware, Trojans, worms, rootkits, bots and phishing attacks are all on the rise. Malware writers are constantly reworking their code to evade security defences.
The total number of unique phishing reports submitted to Anti-Phishing Working Group (APWG) www.antiphishing.org in January 2008 was 29,284 an increase of over 3,600 reports from the previous month (APWG)
In 2007, 3.6 million adults lost a total of US$3.2 billion as a result of phishing attacks in the United States. (Source: Gartner, Inc.)
One out of every ten sites on the Web is infected with "drive-by" malware --> malware that automatically installs itself on a computer when it visits a site (Google research, 2007)
Annual worldwide economic damages from malware exceeded US$13 Billion in 2006, which is US$10 Billion more than in 1997 (2007 Malware Report, Computer Economics)
Virus Radar: Real-Time Threat Monitor. See a current picture of malware being sent through email at www.virusradar.com, our real-time threat monitoring centre located at ISPs across the globe.
Also check out the crime wave capitals in the world and see where Australia stands
http://www.antiphishing.org/crimeware.html
Information courtesy Eset and APWG. For more information on the threat centre http://www.eset.com/threat-center/index.php
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Virgin's Blue
Better late then never, or maybe not!
"Virgin Blue pursues $20 million in compensation for business loses in check-in crash."
Virgin Blue will seek to recover $20 million lost when it's reservation system crashed last month.
The carrier is expected to demand compensation from Navitaire the company which supplies the NewSkies system which failed on September 26 2010.
Apparently another carrier Ryan air had experienced similar problems in the preceding weeks so Navitaire should have been especially alert to possibility of systems issues with Virgin Blue.
Virgin in this situation are probably in a bind that smaller organisations don't have to face. That is they are locked into a proprietary IT solution because of their need to collaborate with other industry players. This mean that Virgin probably cannot change IT suppliers even if they wanted to.
To an outsider the performance of Navitaire in this situation has been outstanding. When most businesses expect an up-time of 99.99% which means a downtime of around one hour a year and some businesses demanding up-time of 99.999 or about six minuets a year, it is hard to understand how an Navitaire could let their customer suffer an outage of days.
Virgin Blue do not see this situation as causing long term damage to their company. How would your business be perceived if you suffered a similar outage. The concept of disaster recover somehow does not seem to have permeated the people at Virgin Blue or Navitaire and they both should share some responsibility for this. If organisations don't ensure that their IT providers have sufficient disaster recovery for them, the they must share some of the responsibility when disasters happens.
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