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The more we researched, the worse the exploits become.
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Jeremiah Grossman, CTO, WhiteHat Security

 

Last week Apple proved that they are not ready for prime time enterprise relationships.

Apple has tried to position the iPhone as enterprise-ready, but this last round of software updates demonstrated beyond a shadow of a doubt how far they have to go to understand the enterprise mentality.

On September 9th, Apple released updates to some 20 security vulnerabilities that included updates to QuickTime, iTunes and other software. On September 12th, Apple released iPhone version 2.1, which was intended to fix 8 security holes and repair 3G connections problems. On September 15th, Apple released updates to OSX that includes fixes to nearly 70 security problems. On September 16th, Apple released updates to Remote Desktop, again fixing more security problems.

Acer, the world's third-largest PC vendor, will reach a US$20 billion revenue target and sales of 30 million computers this year despite financial troubles in the U.S., high energy prices and rising inflation, company executives said Friday.

Global economic troubles will not seriously impact the PC market, said J.T. Wang, Acer's chairman, in a webcast from Budapest, Hungary. "The PC market is growing," he said. The company's comments present a far different view of the IT world than number two PC vendor Dell.

Earlier this week, Dell released a statement saying it is seeing further softening of global end-user demand. The comment was an extension of conservative IT buying in the U.S., Western Europe and some parts of Asia that Dell reported in its second-quarter investors' conference on Aug. 28.

Siemens plans to sell its stake in the Fujitsu Siemens Computers NIXG.UL joint venture to partner Fujitsu, German paper Euro am Sonntag reported, citing unidentified, informed people.

Fujitsu would then sell on the end-customer business of the joint venture as it is mostly interested in the commercial customer business, the weekly paper reported.

A possible buyer is Chinese computer maker Lenovo Euro am Sonntag reported, citing unidentified people in the industry. Fujitsu Siemens said negotiations between the two partners about the future of the joint venture are ongoing, while Siemens declined to comment.

QANTAS passengers nationwide faced minor delays on Sunday as a computer flaw crippled the airline's self-service check-in network.

A Qantas spokeswoman told ABC News that as a result some flights were delayed by up to half an hour. One affected passenger told ABC News that over the years, she'd seen Qantas's quality of service deteriorate. The latest issues didn't come as a surprise, she said.

The incident coincided with Qantas taking delivery of its new flagship superjumbo, Airbus A380, after a two year delay. Yesterday's computer problems are just one of many in a series of technology-related problems that have dogged the carrier over the past few months, coupled with threats of industrial action and its safety record being called into question.

Just about every browser out there now is trying to grab the crown for fastest performance for running JavaScript, the programming language that powers many increasingly sophisticated Web-based applications. The latest development is from the programmers behind Apple's Safari.

Mozilla bragged earlier this month about TraceMonkey, a new JavaScript engine due to ship in Firefox 3.1 near the end of 2008. Next came Google's Chrome, a leading feature of which is the performance of its V8 JavaScript engine. Now the WebKit programmers, whose open source code is used in Apple's Safari browser and the Konqueror browser of the KDE interface software sometimes used on Linux systems, have a new version of their JavaScript technology.

It's called Squirrelfish Extreme, and the WebKit programmers said Thursday in a blog posting that it's more than twice as fast as the first-generation Squirrelfish announced in June announced in June and more than three times faster than the current WebKit 3.1 version. They based their conclusions on one benchmark, SunSpider.

Fraud is a fact of corporate life today, as the latest Kroll Global Fraud report notes, somewhat ominously, in its opening pages.

The average company's losses to fraud increased by 22 percent since last year, and the average business lost US$8.2 million to fraud during the past three years (last year's figure was $7.6 million).

Those sobering statistics are from a recent survey of 890 senior executives worldwide, commissioned by risk consultancy Kroll. So what's keeping executives up at nights, besides the slumping economy and financial crises?