Globe and Mail: “A new Internet worm has emerged in China akin to the “Code Red”
worm, which caused $2.4-billion in estimated cleanup costs on
Internet-linked computers last month, a computer security expert said on
Friday.”

Wired: “Microsoft haters and lovers both seem not to be too surprised by the Justice Department decision not to split the company in two. And company employees, naturally, are thrilled.”

CNET: “Any gardener will tell you worms are good for the soil. Security researchers are now finding that the creatures’
digital namesakes might be good for security.

In its monthly report released earlier this week, Internet survey firm Netcraft found that Web servers running Microsoft’s
software have become much more secure in the wake of the Code Red worm attack.”

Wired: “As the quantum computer moves closer to reality, so do concerns over security on the Internet — security systems the computer could knock down. Enter quantum crypto.”

ZDNET: “Lately, Oracle has become the software company the press loves to hate. The Oracle 11i e-business suite is now the
designated whipping boy, slammed by Forbes, eWEEK, and CNet’s News.com for misleading marketing, swarms of
bugs, and consulting fees that balloon well beyond the price of the software itself.”

AustralianIT: “Packard has joined other PC makers in a decision to load Java software on Windows XP computers, despite Microsoft dropping default Java support.”

ZDNET: “In light of recent announcements by several vendors (e.g., IBM, Microsoft, Hewlett-Packard and Oracle) regarding new
software strategies, Sun Microsystems’ software puzzle appears to be missing one of its pieces. A plan for achieving
leadership and innovation in Web services is under-represented as a top-line issue. Sun has shown recent indications
that a new major strategy announcement is on the way. However, the lack of a clear message from Sun regarding the
way it plans to capture leadership in Web services defies logic when viewed from the standpoint of Sun as a thought
leader in the software-as-services revolution.”

Anonymous Reader writes: “Nick Petreley returns to the site he founded in 1998 with this look at two contenders for Outlook replacement, at LinuxWorld.“

Anonymous Reader writes: “LinuxWorld has a story about how Joe Barr slashed his network expenses while increasing bandwidth
by 10 to 20 times.”

Mikael Pawlo writes “The existence of Echelon is often debated. Conspiracy theory, reality
or both? You tell me. The EU Commission thinks Echelon is real. Now
they want free software to protect Europe. As reported by Gnuheter the Commission has published a report on Echelon. The Commission concludes (p 19 English version):

29. Urges the Commission and Member States to devise appropriate measures to promote, develop and manufacture European encryption technology and software and above all to support projects aimed at developing user-friendly open-source encryption software;

30. Calls on the Commission and Member States to promote software projects whose source text is made public (open-source software), as this is the only way of guaranteeing that no backdoors are built into programmes;

31. Calls on the Commission to lay down a standard for the level of security of e-mail software packages, placing those packages whose source code has not been made public in the “least reliable” category;

Read entire report (PDF-format).”