Congratulations to Andrei Popovici, software engineer at Softure in Bucharest, Romania, and Mingshou Tang, DBA at Toronto-based DS-MAX International. Andrei won first prize of $100 for the best solution to the June Reader Challenge, "Passing the...
By now, you should have heard about the Spida (aka Digispid.B) worm, which attacks Microsoft SQL Server. The main difference between this worm and some others (e.g., the Klez virus/worm) is that it's easily avoidable—simple common sense and a...