Eliminate Hidden Processes that Sap Up to 40% of Developers' Time
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(Source: BMC Software) Are time constraints pressuring your development, QA, and support resources to cut corners on software quality? If so, your company's not alone. According to a commissioned study conducted by Forrester Consulting on behalf of BMC Software, "...problem resolution is a major time-sink for developers and a drain on the efficiency of application development and support."
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Working on code today, may be limited updates.
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Roots you, sir Increased use of stealth techniques such as rootkits is leading to fewer reports of new viruses, according to a study by net security outfit VeriSign iDefense.â¦
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External developers and testers will see false values, keeping private data private.
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Kernel development is getting faster, and testing has to keep up. This early warning tool gives developers insight into changes that could hurt performance.
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The world of software development traditionally was a clandestine one, where developers in the bowels of their institution were entrenched in writing thousands of lines of code to meet ever-changing business requirements.
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If you always forget to scan for viruses, update virus protection, run Disk Defragmenter, or run any other system tool, look to the Task Scheduler for help.
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This paper introduces some techniques for making backups without needing to stop the business applications. It also describes ways to simplify and reduce the cost of system operations.
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Want to save money right now? Get rid of these manual procedures that drain help desk resources, waste valuable storage space and cost ongoing licensing fees.
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Give your system more oomph by disabling the services that Windows activates automatically, whether or not you actually need them.
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Workshop Windows virus cleanup primer
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Apps upgrades will need policies, even if you don't want them Further indications that the coming upgrades of the major business applications such as SAP and Oracle could cause unsuspecting IT managers more problems than they have planned for, first noted here, have come from SOA Software.â¦
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David Pogue explores the time-saving qualities of macro software.
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In a new entry on his blog today, Marco Tabini introduces us to 5 PHP Performance Tips that we "probably don't want to hear".   I thought it might be interesting to write an article about the performance-enhancing tips you probably don't want to hear about - that is, those that are most likely to produce measurable (and durable) results but do require some effort on your part.   His list consists of:  You Don't Need To Plan Ahead In Order To Have A Plan Combat Database Abuse Do You Really Need A Database Anyway? Scale Horizontally Refactor To Scale Vertically  For each, he explains the title and gives a bit of validation to the point. There's some great mentions of tools that you can use to help accomplish them too - a profiler, the Lucene and Xapian full-text databases, and Lustre.
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(InfoWorld) - The researcher who developed Blue Pill, an attempt at developing undetectable malware for computers running Microsoft's Windows Vista operating system, is working on a stealthier version that could be finished within the next few months. Polish malware specialist Joanna Rutkowska, who works as a senior researcher for Singapore's Computer Security Initiative ConsultancyÂ (COSEINC), unveiled aÂ prototype of Blue Pill earlier this year. "Blue Pill is about hijacking an operating system, moving into a virtual machine, and taking control of it," she said during an interview at the Hack In The Box Security Conference (HITB) in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. Blue Pill works by taking advantage of hardware virtualization technology in processors from Advanced Micro Devices and Intel. Virtualization allows computers to simultaneously run multiple operating systems and applications in separate partitions. "Using this virtualization technology should allow us to develop malware that is 100 percent undetectable," Rutkowska said. The Blue Pill prototype demonstrated earlier this year came close to achieving this goal, but timing how long a computer takes to complete a given operation can theoretically be used to detect whether or not Blue Pill is running on a computer, Rutkowska said. She is now working on a new version of Blue Pill that is not detectable using this method. Whether or not timing analysis is a purely theoretical means of detecting Blue Pill has been debated within the security community, with some arguing that this method of detection is easy to implement. Rutkowska is not so sure. "You have to have a trusted time source. But you cannot rely on your internal clock because that can be subverted by Blue Pill," she said, adding that other timing methods are also vulnerable to manipulation. One way to defend against Blue Pill is to disable the virtualization capability in the processors, but that makes no sense. "People spent years developing those new processors with virtualization, and now you buy those new processors just to disable the virtualization, right? Where's the logic?" she asked. A more practical defense is for Microsoft to disable the paging of kernel memory in Vista, which means loading the kernel code and drivers, approximately 80MB of data, into main memory. This would prevent Blue Bill from accessing the kernel and executing code. "Who cares about 80MB? That's why I'm so surprised that even though I showed this attack at the end of July at the SysCan conference, it still hasn't been fixed in RC1," Rutkowska said, referring to the latest pre-production version of Vista. In response, a Microsoft security specialist said the company continues to work on improving the security of Vista RC1 before the production version is shipped to customers. "There's still a few months before the final [version] does get released," said Mike Reavey, the operations manager at the Microsoft Security Response Center.ADVERTISEMENTMAKE SOA REAL WITH IBM WEBSPHERE PODCASTStreamline processes and maximize efficiency within a proven service oriented architecture. Take back control of your business processes with IBM WebSphere.
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SAP has unwrapped a new on-demand business software platform targeted at midsize companies (100 to 500 employees) looking to simplify their I.T. requirements while improving the efficiency and flexibility of their business processes.
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com. As IT landscapes are in a constant flux, SAP advised that these security checks need to be undertaken at regular intervals. SAP Security Optimization is part of SAP Active Global Support&#39;s portfolio of customer services.