Datacraft, the region's leading independent IT solutions and services company, and De La Salle University have jointly set up a Cooperative Research Center (CRC) for Advanced Infrastructure Optimisation. A first for Datacraft, the collaboration aims to establish a world-class program to facilitate research and consulting services on infrastructure optimization for clients across the Asia Pacific region.

As part of the research partnership, Datacraft is working closely with the College of Computer Studies of De La Salle University to develop research and consulting capabilities in advanced infrastructure optimization. "This program is a long term commitment for Datacraft. Going forward, we will assess how we can extend its scope to cover other key technologies such as converged communications and IT operational excellence, as well as to develop similar CRC programs with other universities in Asia Pacific," added Bill Padfield, CEO of Datacraft Asia.

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EMC Launches EMC Smarts Application Discovery Manager 5.0

EMC Corporation, recently unveiled EMC Smarts Application Discovery Manager (ADM) 5.0. This newest data center management solution allows enterprises to view network and storage resources in the context of their distributed business applications. Linking the power of model-based resource management with application awareness, the software can quickly pinpoint the impact of infrastructure incidents and configuration changes on business service availability.

Smarts ADM 5.0's real-time dependency catalog eliminates reliance on guesswork and minimizes change-induced service outages, degradations and failures. Enterprises can detect, log and report on software and hardware configuration changes and compare them on a server-to-server basis. Additionally, the software's embedded, real-time Configuration Management Database (CMDB) allows enterprises to accurately manage the impact of changes and infrastructure incidents across multiple data centers and throughout the information infrastructure.

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Lenovo Keep Delegates Connected at the 12th ASEAN Business Summit

Lenovo announced it provided desktops and notebooks to delegates, guests and media during the 12th Asean Business Summit held last January 10 to 15 in Cebu City.  An estimated 2,500 summit delegates, together with 3,000 local and foreign media covering the summit, attended the 3-day event held at the newly-constructed Cebu International Convention Center (CICC). Lenovo provided 30 desktops and 10 notebooks.

“We are proud to be chosen as one of the technology partners of the ASEAN Summit,” says Vicky Agorrilla, country general manager of Lenovo Philippines . ”It gives us a chance to showcase our products and services to the high-profile attendees and media from all over the world. The ASEAN Summit is about collaboration, cooperation, overall excellence, trustworthiness and goodwill, all things Lenovo strives to achieve,” Agorrilla added.

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"Storm Worm" Launched on the Internet

A significant network attack was launched globally using news of a European storm as the hook to lure the unsuspecting. The message, which was created and launched literally as the storm raged, is exploiting a timely widescale media event as the key mechanism for delivering its payload.

The Trojan was distributed in messages with subject line of "230 dead as storm batters Europe". The payload in this case was the Small.DAM Trojan that was downloaded into all vulnerable machines upon opening of the spam mail's attachment such as "Read More.exe". Once inside the machine, the Trojan creates a backdoor that can be exploited later by the malware authors behind the assault.

As has been seen with other attacks, the likely intention is to create a new raft of zombie computers to steal information and to further propagate large-scale spam and phishing runs.

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Adobe Releases Flash 9 for Linux

Adobe released the final version of Flash Player 9 for Linux, bringing its multimedia offering for the open source operating system up to date with Windows and Mac OS X. Linux developers can now build rich Internet applications using Adobe's Flex 2 SDK.

Flash Player 9 for Linux includes better memory utilization, advanced features for graphics, video and text, as well as ActionScript Virtual Machine 2.  which Adobe recently handed over to the Mozilla Foundation for a project called Tamarin.

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Man Faces 101 Years for Phishing

A California phisher faces up to 101 years in prison after being convicted in U.S. District Court of tricking AOL members into disclosing their personal information, including credit cards. The information was then used to make purchases.  Federal authorities arrested Jeffrey Goodin, 45, in January 2006. He had been using hacked EarthLink accounts to send e-mails to AOL members. The messages were fashioned to look as if the user would lose service if they failed to respond.

Goodin was also convicted of 10 other counts, including wire fraud, aiding and abetting the unauthorized use of an access device (credit card), possession of more than 15 unauthorized access devices, misuse of the AOL trademark, attempted witness harassment and failure to appear in court.

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