Day: January 23, 2004

Senate Security Hole Enables Partisan Spying According to the Boston Globe, Republican staff members of the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee exploited a security hole in the committee’s servers for at least a year to access and share secret Democratic memos.eWeek eNews & Views email news item, 23 January 2004

Some Dell PowerEdge servers die after smokingDefective motherboards used in Dell’s PowerEdge 1650 servers can cause the systems to overheat, emit smoke and then die, according to the company.Dell said the problem occurs because certain motherboards have a faulty inductor—a component designed to regulate the voltage—that overheats, causing the component to emit smoke and then…