BBC Responds To Legality Issues Of Recent Tech Show
Yesterday Nick Reynolds of the BBC directed me, as well as many other writers, to the BBC's official response to allegations that its technology show, Click, violated the U.K.'s Computer Misuse Act when it purchased and used a botnet as part of an investigative report into cybercrime.
BBC Responds To Allegations About The Legality Of Their Report
Yesterday Nick Reynolds of the BBC directed me, and many other writers covering this story, to the BBC's official response to allegations that BBC's technology show, Click, violated the U.K.'s Computer Misuse Act when it purchased and used a botnet as part of an investigative report into cybercrime.
ATMs At Risk
Targeted attack on ATMs raises the bar -- as well as concerns -- about security of cash machines
How Private Is Google's Cloud? And Is It Any Of The FTC's Business?
Privacy advocacy group The Electronic Privacy Information Center has asked the Federal Trade Commission to investigate Google's security procedures and practices. Should you be more concerned about Google's lapses than you are (or should be) about any other cloud-based service?
Your Storage Has To Do More With Less, Too
Sick of the phrase "Do more with less"? How about putting the pressure on your storage system? If you have to do more with less, it should at least carry some of the responsibility.
Got 15 Minutes? Get Secure: McAfee
An hour a week is what the typical small and midsized business is able to devote to security, according to McAfee. The company's latest outreach aims to show you how 15 minutes can heighten your 24/7 security profile.
Microsoft Stands By Its Latest Patch
The company is defending against claims that its MS09-008 security fix doesn't work and that the vulnerabilities could be used to hijack network traffic.
bMighty News Flash: Monday March 16, 2009
Today's top tech news for small and midsize businesses: Obama announces SMB lending aid, SMB optimism, Web site best practices, Facebook Connect for iPhone, SMBs want SaaS, explosive mobile commerce growth, Windows 7 changes, Cisco's unified computing, iPhone 3,0, Azaleos merges with M3, Reality Digital launches Harmony platform, MyFax offers free service, Facebook traffic growth...
Cost-Reducing The Backup Infrastructure
You are spending too much money on your backup infrastructure. You've built this massive infrastructure specifically to handle one task...The Full Backup. Most enterprises do their entire full backup job over the weekend so they have enough backup-window time to get the job done. We've been doing backups this way for the last 20 years, is it time for change? Could changing it rein in the costs of the backup process?
No Fooling: Conficker Set To Strike April 1
Almost two months ago, we noted how antivirus firm F-Secure estimated that the Conficker/Downadup worm had infected nearly 9 million PCs. Today, IT management vendor CA warns that the worm has big plans for April Fools' Day.
DefCon CTF Organizers Chosen
DefCon creator and organizer Jeff Moss (aka Dark Tangent) put out a call for proposals in late January looking for a group to design, organize and run this year's Capture the Flag (CTF) event at DefCon in Las Vegas. Late last night, Jeff announced that proposal #1, from a currently unnamed team, was chosen for DefCon 17.
7 Security Tips For Friday The 13th
Not that you're superstitious or anything, but why not take Friday the 13th (the second in two months) as an opportunity to tighten up security procedures and remind employees that security is a matter of more than luck?
A Recession Demands Retention
As we work our way through the current economic situation, IT staffs are faced with a variety of challenges that are in conflict: maintain or increase services levels, drive out costs and increase efficiency. One of the items that can't be neglected is retention of data. In fact, it may be more critical in tough times than in prosperous times.
Acrobat Antics Here To Stay
Adobe has a bit of a problem on its hands, and it is sitting in a spotlight usually reserved for a company like Microsoft. Adobe is currently responsible for a vulnerability that could allow mass pwnage of the Internet. Even though the company finally released a patch for version 9 of Acrobat and Acrobat Reader, two more versions are due to be patched. In other words, this is a bug that's going
See How I Suffer For My Science?
Today I saw two fraudulent charges on my bank account, and a few weeks ago I accidentally wiped off all of the data from my BlackBerry.
Why?
Because I love too much.
The Many Shades Of Green...Storage
Green storage, or making storage more power efficient, continues to be a hot topic of discussion from storage vendors and for storage consumers. What is interesting and sometimes comical is watching vendors explain how their storage is suddenly green. Let's examine the common claims.
Crazy Patch Tuesday (And Not Because Of Microsoft, Either)
As Microsoft's Patch Tuesdays go, this one struck me as a fairly straightforward day. Yet, what was up with Symantec and Adobe? Patch Tuesdays aren't a good day to make the jobs of IT security and operation teams any more difficult than they already are.
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