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• Firefox counters Chrome on speed

  Mozilla fought back on Wednesday in the US with some performance results to show a forthcoming version of Firefox outpacing Google's new Web browser, Chrome.

• Apple DNS patch not complete

  Apple's Domain Name System patch for Mac OS X systems is not completely effective, according to security experts.

• DNS patch causes BIND blunder

  The group responsible for maintaining the internet's most popular domain name software BIND has admitted it caused problems by fast-tracking a security patch designed to fix the widescale DNS flaw discovered by researcher Dan Kaminsky this month.

• Massive, coordinated DNS patch released

  A security researcher has responsibly disclosed a fundamental flaw within the Domain Name System (DNS), the addressing scheme behind the common names used on the Internet.

• 50 percent of DNS servers vulnerable

  Security around DNS servers is still a serious issue for network administrators, even though new servers such as BIND 9 are more secure, according to a new survey released this week.

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  Start-to-meta: the meta metric

  Seeing this week's Crate Tetris public art piece on the Wooster Collective Web site, installed next to a Melbourne highway as a sequel to Crate Man in Richmond, put me in mind of an old article written for infamous computer game site Old Man Murray.

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• SQL Server 2005 secrets

  There's plenty of hype about the new SQL Server 2005. Here's a list of what's important about the pending release, and what you can plan on using SQL Server for in the near future.

• Mimic DOS commands in Linux

  You can take advantage of the flexibility inherent in the Linux command shell and create scripts that allow you to emulate DOS commands in a Linux environment.

• How to improve DNS security

  It's no surprise that domain name system (DNS) servers are vulnerable to a multitude of attacks, which can come in several forms. Here are tips on how to overcome these problems.

• Managing Windows security with CACLS

  Although using CACLS may seem daunting at first, the flexibility and power of this utility can make short work of security management tasks.

• The future looks PHPerfect

  With versions on most Web platforms, a library of databases and Web/XML services, PHP may be the next-generation Web language for your network.

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• Microsoft SQL Server 2005 uncovered

  SQL Server 2005 has finally hit the market and brought with it significant new features and changes from previous versions. We'll explain the various editions of SQL Server 2005 take a look at the new management console.

• Beyond the Database

  Boldly going where no database has gone before, Oracle's Oracle8i Release 3 is a lot more than a database. Oracle8i is now also a file, mail, Web and Java2 Enterprise Edition application server.

• This Adobe Acrobat worm is a real peach

  A proof-of-concept worm proves that Adobe Acrobat files can be infected with viruses.

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