Posts Tagged ‘News’
Posted in Network World on February 6th, 2012 by NetworkWorld
A federal lawsuit filed in Massachusetts could test the question of whether individuals who leave their wireless networks unsecured can be held liable if someone uses the network to illegally download copyrighted content.
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Posted in Network World on February 6th, 2012 by NetworkWorld
U.K.-based cash-transport firm G4S is trusting the security of Microsoft's Windows Azure cloud service to keep safe the application that tracks where the money is as it travels to and from customers and the company's vaults in armored trucks.
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Posted in Network World on February 6th, 2012 by NetworkWorld
Anyone wanting to buy mobile-device management (MDM) software to manage Apple iOS devices will find they need a special digital certificate from Apple to activate it, a requirement that doesn't apply to the same MDM software that would be used to manage Google Android devices, for instance.
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Posted in SANS on February 6th, 2012 by ISC Handler
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Posted in E-Week on February 5th, 2012 by E-Week
Philippe Kahn, an icon in the software and overall IT industry, is slated to talk about his invention of the camera phone as part of a Best Buy commercial that will air during the Super Bowl. -
IT industry
pioneer Philippe Kahn is set to star in a Super Bowl advertisement during the
big game Sunday evening.
Kahn, who
founded software tools powerhouse Borland International and other concerns, is
slated to take part in a Best Buy spot focusing on tech innovators during the
Super Bowl...
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Posted in E-Week on February 5th, 2012 by E-Week
Researchers examined the state of security in SCADA and industrial control systems and presented an ugly picture of the vulnerabilities and challenges in addressing the issues. - CANCUN, Mexico Recent reports painted a bleak picture of
the security issues plaguing industrial control systems, but the situation is exacerbated
by the fact that administrators are naïve about the dangers, researcher said.
Researchers presented some alarming findings about the state
of secur...
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Posted in E-Week on February 5th, 2012 by E-Week
Thousands of computers still infected with the DNSChanger Trojan will not be able to access the Internet after the FBI shuts down its temporary servers March 8. - Some of the
major organizations still have not removed the DNSChanger Trojan from infected
computers, despite the fact that the botnet's command-and-control
infrastructure has been under the Federal Bureau of Investigation's control for
the past few months.
The primary
function of the DNSChang...
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Posted in E-Week on February 5th, 2012 by E-Week
Facebook has a strong ally in its growing battle against Google and its own social-networking aims: Microsoft. - Facebooks initial
public offering will hand the social network billions of dollars to spend on
future projects, and turn many of its employees into millionaires or
billionaires.
It will also
intensify competition with Google, which desperately wants to establish an
outsized presence in the so...
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Posted in E-Week on February 5th, 2012 by E-Week
RIM will likely abandon plans to license the BlackBerry OS in favor of positioning BlackBerry 10 head-to-head against Apple and Google Android, according to an analyst. - Research In Motion will dump its
BlackBerry OS licensing plans and double down on the upcoming BlackBerry 10s
ability to battle toe-to-toe against Apples iOS and Google Android, according
to a new analyst report.
“Our checks indicate RIM is likely to move
away from a proposal to the Board th...
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Posted in E-Week on February 5th, 2012 by E-Week
Microsoft's week included a swipe at Google, the next version of Office in technical preview, and some leaks about Windows Phone 8. - Microsofts
week saw the release of its Kinect for Windows SDK (software development kit) and
Runtime, a very public broadside at Google over the latters privacy policy,
the next version of Office entering technical preview, and the unexpected
revelation of some crucial Windows Phone 8 details.
...
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