Facebook, Twitter need corporate security policies
Social networks such as Facebook and Twitter open threats to sensitive corporate data that businesses need to deal with aggressively, Interop attendees were told.
View ArticleCisco VoIP phones part of security weakness demo
Security firm HackLabs is expected to demonstrate at AusCERT 2011 how hackers perform VoIP attacks and identify weaknesses in Cisco and other manufacturers VoIP phones.
View ArticleHow to deal with 3 big corporate security concerns
BOSTON -- Virtualization, mobility and social networking were flagged as posing most security risk to businesses, partly because there is no accepted set of best practices yet to protect them, IT...
View Article10 technologies that will change the world in the next 10 years
As computational power rises exponentially, not linearly, so does the rate of change - and that means the next 10 years should pack in far more technological change than the last 10.
View ArticleAnonymous takes aim at Google+ in more ways than one
Google+ may be getting some attention it doesn't want -- from Anonymous, which says it will target the new social networking site that launched last month.
View ArticleLulzSec gets Google+ boot, but returns
Hacker group LulzSec ("the world's leaders in high-quality entertainment at your expense") has had its initial Google+ account nixed this week, though LulzSec has quickly and brashly re-emerged with a...
View ArticleWith SSL, who can you really trust?
SSL, the encryption scheme that protects virtually all secure online transaction, requires that users rely on trusted third parties, but what if they can't be trusted?
View ArticleMassive DDoS attacks a growing threat to VoIP services
ORLANDO, Fla. -- When the massive distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack in March brought down the voice-over-IP (VoIP) call processing supplied by TelePacific Communications to thousands of its...
View ArticleThe SSL certificate industry can and should be replaced
The SSL certificate authorities like Comodo that have had their security undermined by hackers shouldn't be trusted, and in fact, the way the entire SSL certificate industry of today works can and...
View ArticleErnst & Young's IT security survey shows struggle to control cloud computing,...
Many CIOS and chief information security officers are struggling to adapt security practices to a changing environment that includes cloud computing, social media and tablets , according to a survey of...
View ArticleOffice 365 email conks out twice within a week
Microsoft's Office 365 service has suffered two email outages within a week of each other that affected some customers in North and South America that stemmed from different causes but ended in the...
View ArticleOpinion: The Petraeus scandal and computer ethics
Last week Gen. David Petraeus, the director of the Central Intelligence Agency, resigned in response to what has turned out to be a much bigger scandal than it first appeared.
View ArticleFacebook messaging changes could let paid advertisements into users' inboxes
Facebook today announced a trial that could let paid advertisers directly message users' in-boxes, which have traditionally been held for messages from friends.
View ArticleOutlook 2013 ... Even more interesting than 2012!
Gibbs reviews his predictions from last year and surveys the more than 400 predictions that he's been sent by IT professionals
View ArticleWhen it comes to VoIP and unified communications, are you sacrificing...
If you were to ask most IT professionals to connect CRM or ERP applications to an external IP network without some form of network security, they would look at you as if you had lost your mind. Even...
View ArticleSome Facebook users asked for $100 to message Zuckerberg
Want to send a message directly to Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg? It might cost you $100, if you don't want it to wind up in his spam folder.
View ArticleHow joining Google Gmail with encryption system helps high-tech firm meet...
When a relatively small high-tech company with some big aerospace and defense customers wanted to adopt cloud-based email for its employees, it faced the challenge that whatever choice of cloud service...
View ArticlePredicting the Tech Future
For my recent column of predictions for 2013 I polled a huge number of IT people to see what they are expecting, and ended up getting more than 400 responses.
View ArticleOpinion: Predicting the tech future
For my recent column of predictions for 2013 I polled a huge number of IT people to see what they are expecting, and ended up getting more than 400 responses.
View ArticleLinkedIn is down, then up, then down again Wednesday morning
LinkedIn, the professional social media network, is suffering intermittent service disruptions Wednesday morning.
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