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UK beefs up huge snooping database
The UK Home Secretary has stressed the need for even greater snooping powers for government, even as the country is planning a massive interception database of all communications. Read more »
Most Oracle database admins don't apply patches?
Around 70 percent of Oracle database professionals say they have never applied a security patch, according to database security firm Sentrigo. Read more »
Worm hijacks open source database
Thousands of MySQL servers around the world are being infected with a worm which could facilitate a massive denial-of-service attack. Read more »
Five percent of Web traffic caused by DDoS attacks
After analysing traffic from 68 ISPs around the globe, a security researcher claims that as much as five percent of all Internet traffic is from DDoS-attacks. Read more »
UK govt to monitor all telecoms
UK internet service providers will be invited to tender for a British government scheme to monitor all internet communications and telecommunications in the country. Read more »
Semantic web breaking out of the lab
Semantic web technology is on the verge of becoming commercially viable for businesses looking to develop their web capabilities. Read more »
Microsoft fixes DNS flaw but warns of Word attacks
Microsoft is warning that a Word flaw is being used for targeted attacks, and has also issued four 'important' patches, including one for a potentially serious DNS flaw in the latest Patch Tuesday bulletin. Read more »
Google sets Bigtable for free life in the cloud
Web developers will soon be able to host their applications on Google's infrastructure for free — up to a point. Read more »
Open source community site goes open source
Ohloh, the prominent community site for open source developers, is making itself open source, including its full suite of tools and even the Web site itself. Read more »
Data-mining pioneer joins Microsoft
Not every big name in search is going to Google. Read more »
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Grant Web servers secure database access
Allowing Web clients to access a database is a delicate matter that should not be attempted lightly or without careful consideration. Read more »
Create a dynamic menu tree in ColdFusion and JavaScript
It's easy to develop a database-powered dynamic menu. We'll show you how, with a little bit of ColdFusion and JavaScript magic. Read more »
Access Microsoft SQL Server 2000 using PHP
Combine the powers of PHP and Microsoft SQL Server to create database-driven Web sites that can handle large amounts of data and traffic. Read more »
Monitor network traffic with ntop
Like the command-line tool with a similar name (top), ntop is a monitoring agent. Instead of monitoring system resource usage like top, ntop monitors network usage and provides some very sophisticated and informative data. Read more »
Choose the right Microsoft database for development needs
If you're in a Microsoft shop, you have four basic choices for your database. Here's a profile of each product to help you choose the best one for your client. Read more »
Handle Web app list data with this simple database function
While converting an aging, off-the-shelf ERP system to a Web-based application, a Builder reader and his team ran into trouble handling list data. See how they implemented a user-defined function to solve the problem. Read more »
Use the FileSystemWatcher to monitor directory changes in C#
One of the more interesting objects included in the Microsoft .NET Framework class library is the System.IO.FileSystemWatcher. This object allows you to be notified when certain events occur in a directory, such as file creation, deletion, or modification. Read more »
ORA-04030 doesn't always mean you're running out of RAM
Why give this general out-of-memory error, which mislead us into thinking RAM was the issue? If the database knew it was swap space at issue instead of RAM, it should have been indicated in the error text. Read more »
Detect intruders on your network with Snort
Snort is a Network Intrusion Detection System (NIDS), which can view and analyse packets on a network to determine whether or not a system is being attacked by remote. Read more »
Monitor bandwidth with vnStat
Keeping track of bandwidth usage is a good thing for a variety of reasons, particularly in situations where bandwidth accounting is required, such as paying for Internet services that are dependent upon the amount of bandwidth used. Read more »
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On Club Builder this week: how NASA plans to get the Internet into space, Jerry Yang is out the door at Yahoo and Brendan Eich discusses javascript engine competition.