Databases

Hack Tales: Network auditing on a shoestring

Complete map of network shares and access rights kept business auditors happy

Hack Tales: E-mail archiving the home-brew way

Custom code allowed one company to sidestep costly management solutions

Hack Tales: Keeping track of tools the wireless way

This Wi-Fi hack meant tools need never go missing again

Hack Tales: Keeping thin clients synced from coast to coast

Ingenuity and creative Perl did away with laborious system configuration

Google takes half of all US searches, Nielsen says

The news marks upward mobility from a year-ago, when it had market share of 47 percent, while second-place site Yahoo held steady at 22 percent, and Microsoft's MSN dropped from 12 to 11 percent

Yahoo-eBay tie-up smart but ‘anti-climactic’

Oracle mending fences with security researchers

Oracle looks to improve its reputation through marketing tweaks, communication advances, and bug fixes

Hummingbird to be acquired for $465 million

ECM developer is purchased by holding company Symphony Technology

TorrentSpy suit accuses MPAA of hacking

Running e-mail through a gauntlet

IronPort and Mirapoint appliances address manifold threats