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- Twitter's holiday battle with spammers
- Guest post by Adam J. O'Donnell, Ph.D., of Cloudmark, on Twitter's holiday weekend spam attack and methods the microblogging site might use to combat it. by Jennifer Leggio
- Tags: Network, Spammer, Messaging, Twitter, Attack, Adam J. O'Donnell, Spam, Social Networking, E-mail, Security, Spam And Phishing, Online Communications, Marketing, Advertising & Promotion, Jennifer Leggio
- Blog posts 2008-07-07
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- News to know: IT turbulence, Windows 7, Facebook, Apple HDTV
- Here are today's notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily: Larry Dignan: IT warning: Turbulence ahead CEOs freak out; IT preps a do-over Gartner's worst case for 2009 IT budgets isn't so bad Sean...
- Tags: Facebook, Larry Dignan, Microsoft Windows 7, Information Technology, HDTV, Apple Inc., Microsoft Windows, OpenOffice, Open Source, Strategy, Operating Systems, Software, Office Suites, Management, Sam Diaz
- Blog posts 2008-10-14
- Stealth Company decloaks... as Siri
- Silicon Valley stealth-mode startup, Stealth Company, revealed a little more about itself overnight and rebranded as Siri. Stealth Company's website has proved vague at best over the past few months, for example tantalising with allusions to underpinning technology; "We are not building...
- Tags: Software, SRI International, Siri, CALO, Tools & Techniques, Management, Paul Miller
- Blog posts 2008-10-13
- Lead, Melamine, and Backdoored Routers
- It seems that not a day goes by without a new media alert regarding bad things in the chinese supply chain. First it was lead in our toys, then it was melamine in our milk, and now it also may be backdoors in our counterfeit Cisco hardware. ...
- Tags: Router, Routers & Switches, Network Technology, Supply Chain Management (SCM), Networking, Enterprise Software, Software, Adam O\'Donnell
- Blog posts 2008-10-13
- Debate around 'partial disclosure' heats up
- There are many ways of telling the world about a security vulnerability. A vulnerability can be announced without telling the vendor, it can be announced after giving the vendor a period of time to fix the issue, or it may just be circulated amongst the underground without ever coming...
- Tags: Disclosure, Researcher, Vulnerability, Security, Adam O\'Donnell
- Blog posts 2008-10-13
- Microsoft: How we'll take on VMware
- The software maker believes it has the tools and the right price point to beat VMware in the battle for the virtualisation market. Microsoft has a three-pronged strategy to beat VMware in the virtualization market, according to the company's senior director for virtualization product management, Zane Adam. ...
- Tags: Hypervisor, VMware Inc., Microsoft Corp., Cloud Computing, Storage Management, Utility Computing, Hardware, Storage, Colin Barker ZDNet.co.uk, virtualization, Microsoft, VMWare
- News items 2008-10-10
- Nobel Laureate is the father of Kevin Mitnick investigator
- We tend to say that information security is a small world. Conferences quickly become real-life demonstrations of the principle of six-degrees-of-separation. After a few years working in this industry, you either meet all or are within one hop of all the major players in the space; there just...
- Tags: Information Security, Kevin Mitnick, Nobel Laureate, Osamu Shimomura, Productivity, Security, Adam O\'Donnell
- Blog posts 2008-10-09
- Kernell's prior: In 7th grade he broke into school computer
- Hard-hitting news here: Sarah Palin's email wasn't the first time David Kernell applied guesswork to breaking into a computer system, Computerworld reports. The other incident allegedly occurred around 2000, when Kernell was in the seventh grade. Kernell and an accomplice guessed the password to a server...
- Tags: Computer, Kernell, Productivity, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2008-10-08
- News to know: AMD; iPhone security; Linux; SAP
- Here are today's notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily: Sam Diaz: AMD to spin off manufacturing. Techmeme Heather Clancy: The color that shall not be named. AMD's Vertal downplays green credentials, plays up efficiency arguments ...
- Tags: Apple iPhone, Security, Information Technology, SAP AG, RIM BlackBerry, Advanced Micro Devices Inc., Linux, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Microsoft Windows, Web Servers, Open Source, Operating Systems, UNIX, Strategy, Software, Web Services, Enterprise Software, Internet, Management, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-10-07
- Live Webcast: The 2008 Email Security Benchmarking Report
- Email is a critical tool for business communications, but its use is threatened by the growing volume and sophistication of external attacks. Today's best-in-class organizations are realizing significant benefits compared to other organizations, particularly through the use of Software as a Service SaaS security applications. Join this...
- Tags: Google Inc., Webcast, E-mail Security, E-mail, Cyberthreats, Online Communications, Security
- Webcasts 2008-10-07
- Talkback Tuesday: Mobile Malware
- Last week I wrote two posts about why I was not concerned about mobile malware right now, but I expected mobile malware to become a problem in the near future. There were several responses to the two posts, including the following: Phatkat writes: Most...
- Tags: Mobile, Malware, Mobile Device, Mobile Malware, Spyware, Adware & Malware, Cyberthreats, Advertising & Promotion, Security, Viruses And Worms, Marketing, Adam O\'Donnell
- Blog posts 2008-10-06
- News to know: Green PCs, IT; IBM; Nokia; Apple
- Here are today's notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily: Larry Dignan: IBM launches beta of 'Bluehouse,' eyes Cisco's WebEx Matthew Miller: First impressions of the Nokia N96. Gallery right. Mary Jo...
- Tags: Steve Jobs, Larry Dignan, Nokia Corp., PC, Information Technology, Yahoo! Inc., Apple Inc., Microsoft Corp., Matthew Miller, IBM Corp., Podcasts, Linux, Internet, Operating Systems, Software
- Blog posts 2008-10-06
- Dropping the iPhone NDA is good for security
- Last week Apple lifted their NDA on iPhone developers, freeing them to discuss amongst themselves how to properly build applications. This decision is a "good thing" for not just applications but also application security on the iPhone. The iPhone NDA was antithetical to how developers work....
- Tags: Apple iPhone, Developer, Flaw, Programming, Development Tools, Security, Software Development, Software/Web Development, Adam O\'Donnell
- Blog posts 2008-10-05
- Well, I do actually worry (about mobile viruses)
- In response to Kaspersky's statement that they were concerned about mobile malware, I provided a flurry of reasons why mobile malware epidemics don't occur today. This may not be the case in the near future, however, as changes in the handset space is making the creation of malware far...
- Tags: Mobile, Malware, Virus, Spyware, Adware & Malware, Cyberthreats, Viruses And Worms, Security, Adam O\'Donnell
- Blog posts 2008-10-02
- News to know: Cloud wars; Apple; Google; China is watching you
- Here are today's notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily: Mary Jo Foley: Amazon launches pre-emptive strike against Microsoft's planned cloud platform. Techmeme A new mystery: What's Microsoft got up its Office Live sleeve? Zack Whittaker:...
- Tags: Google Inc., Facebook, Larry Dignan, Apple Inc., Microsoft Corp., IPO, Robots, Linux, E-mail, Digital Media, Financial Services, Emerging Technologies, Operating Systems, Software, Online Communications, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology
- Blog posts 2008-10-02
- What, me worry (about mobile viruses)?
- Kaspersky, via PC Magazine, has graciously told the public to worry about mobile phone worms. I'm not worried, and there are many reasons why you shouldn't be concerned... yet. It is commonly accepted that there have been very few pieces of mobile malware that have ever...
- Tags: Mobile, Handset, Malware, Cell Phone, Virus, Mobile Malware, Handset Population, Cyberthreats, Spyware, Adware & Malware, Advertising & Promotion, Viruses And Worms, Cellular Phones, Security, Marketing, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Adam O\'Donnell
- Blog posts 2008-10-01
- Talkback Tuesday: Cheating at UltimateBet
- Talkback Tuesday: Cheating at UltimateBetWell said !As a famous starship engineer once noted " the more plumbing, the easier it is to spring a leak"Thanks for the reply, but...Hi Adam.Thank you for dedicating a whole new post to reply my drive-by one line comment.[b]Addamm O'Donel[/b] sic wrote:[i]"There is an elephant...
- Tags: Web site development, Talkback Tuesday, UltimateBet
- Discussion threads 2008-09-30
- Infamous vendor of "AntiVirus XP" badware sued
- The software purveyor behind AntiVirus XP, a fake anti-virus package, has been sued and will hopefully be put out of business. There has been plenty of information available on this organization for some time, yet unsuspecting consumers continue to hand over their own money for what amounts...
- Tags: Software, Antivirus, Microsoft Windows XP, Viruses And Worms, Security, Adam O\'Donnell
- Blog posts 2008-09-30
- Talkback Tuesday: Cheating at UltimateBet
- Several commenters asked why the institutionalized cheating at the UltimateBet Poker site is a security story. alleco writes: Where's the computer security bit of the story? This is a fair question, and it is my fault for not making the link more explicit. ...
- Tags: Web Site, Alleco, Web Site Development, Web Technology, Software As A Service (SaaS), Security, Enterprise Software, Internet, Emerging Technologies, Software, Adam O\'Donnell
- Blog posts 2008-09-30
- News to know: Tech sales and the art of spin; Firefox; Apple; HD streaming
- Here are today's notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily: Brian Sommer: Quit Spinning - You're Making Me Dizzy Ryan Naraine: Firefox rushes out fix for password manager bug Matthew Miller: Microsoft deep sixes...
- Tags: Apple iPhone, Richard Koman, Mozilla Firefox, Steve Ballmer, Radio, Apple Inc., Sales, Web Browsers, Advertising & Promotion, Open Source, Internet, Marketing, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-09-29
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