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- Arbor Peakflow X Provides Cost-Effective Security for Investment Bank Thomas Weisel
- Thomas Weisel Partners TWP is an investment bank specializing in the growth sectors of the economy including the technology, healthcare and consumer sectors. TWP's IT staff was spending too much time in often unsuccessful attempts to identify and block a growing number of worms, viruses, Botnets and other malware, including...
- Tags: Bank, Arbor Software, Security, Information Technology, Investment, Arbor Networks, Arbor Peakflow X, Thomas Weisel Partners, Strategy, Management
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- In remembrance of scoundrels past
- In remembrance of scoundrels pastSame mess - different scum.I agree. I did some consultancy work for a large brand name in sportswear and was horrified by their IT systems. It had been held in thrall by one man who started his IT career in the 70s and was still going...
- Tags: Strategy, Recruitment & Selection, information technology, IT System
- Discussion threads 2008-09-15
- Northern lights: Count Anchorage among one of the latest LED cities
- The city of Anchorage in Alaska, notoriously gloomy in the winter months, will spend approximately $2.2 million to retrofit 16,000 municipal roadway lights (about one-quarter of all streetlights) with LED fixtures. The deal is one of the latest projects to emerge from the LED City program,...
- Tags: Light-emitting Diode, Engineering, Heather Clancy
- Blog posts 2008-08-06
- DNS cache poisoning attacks exploited in the wild
- UPDATE: Arbor Networks have provided more details in their "30 Days of DNS Attack Activity" analysis, SANS confirmed HD Moore's statement on DNS cache poisoned AT&T DNS servers. Numerous independent sources are starting to see evidence of DNS cache poisoning attempts on their local networks, in what appears to be...
- Tags: Query, DNS, Vulnerability, Server, Attack, Domain Names, Networking, Internet, Dancho Danchev
- Blog posts 2008-07-29
- Security is hard, accept it
- * Ryan Naraine is on vacation. Guest editorial by Dr Jose Nazario The past 10 or 15 years have been about the same things, largely, over and over again: input problems into single system applications or kernels. Buffer overflows (splitvt! NCSA...
- Tags: Security, Ryan Naraine
- Blog posts 2008-07-10
- The search engine conundrum
- The search engine conundrumlove it!Great article. More please...garyAll search engines lack clarityThe simple truth is all text-based search engines lack clarity and reliability.Whenever I search for something, there are literally thousands of ranked results that have nothing to do with what I am doing, and why? Because there...
- Tags: SEARCH, search engine, Google Inc.
- Discussion threads 2008-06-06
- Nanoemulsion vaccines effective against HIV?
- Nanoemulsions are non-toxic lipid droplets approved for human consumption and common food substances that are defined as 'Generally Recognized as Safe' GRAS by the FDA. But they also can be used for medical applications. Researchers at the University of Michigan have developed nasal nanoemulsion vaccines for influenza which were successfully...
- Tags: Vaccine, Particle, HIV, Nanoemulsions, Healthcare, Roland Piquepaille
- Blog posts 2008-02-28
- YouTube shut down reveals some serious net security weaknesses
- It isn't often that the world of political repression interferes with our ability to watch home videos of cat tricks, but in a bizarre turn of events that's what happened over the weekend. Google-owned YouTube is a favorite target not only of copyright holders, who complain the...
- Tags: Security, YouTube Inc., Pakistan, Internet Service Providers (ISPs), Internet, BGP, Networking, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2008-02-25
- Apple Retail Store shopper to Steve Jobs: clerk had no right to ask for my ID
- Apple Retail Store shopper to Steve Jobs: clerk had no right to ask for my IDJustifiable policy in my book!Did I miss something ? The guy is ticked because he was asked for some extra ID to show he's indeed the card owner before making a purchase? If some one...
- Tags: Sales channel, Retail, Ignacio, Apple Inc., Apple Retail Store shopper, Apple Retail Store, credit card, Steve Jobs
- Discussion threads 2008-02-20
- News to know: Vista virtualization; OOXML; OpenOffice; Leopard developers; eBay
- Notable headlines: Mary Jo Foley: Microsoft finally broadens Windows Vista virtualization rules. Dan Farber: Microsoft's unveils its grand virtualization strategy Mary Jo Foley: IBM, Google quietly supporting OOXML? Reminder: Microsoft to push Silverlight to business users this week David Morgenstern: Mac...
- Tags: Developer, Apple MacBook, Microsoft Windows Vista, Microsoft Corp., eBay Inc., IBM Corp., Virtualization, Microsoft Windows, OpenOffice, Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Utility Computing, Notebooks, Storage Management, Hardware, Operating Systems, Software, Office Suites, Notebooks & Tablets, Storage, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-01-22
- Arbor Networks abandons security space
- I was actually in Ann Arbor last week when news broke that Arbor Networks had acquired Ellacoya a so called "deep packet inspection" technology vendor. I was perplexed. That's not security. First let me clear up some terminology. "Deep Packet Inspection" was...
- Tags: Arbor Software, Sales Force, Arbor Networks, Telephony, Mergers & Acquisitions, Telecom & Utilities, Content Management, Security, Telecommunications, Networking, Investment, Finance, Enterprise Software, Software, Richard Stiennon
- Blog posts 2008-01-21
- What will the hackers be targeting in 2008?
- A forecast released by Arbor Networks suggests that the iPhone will become a major target for hackers in 2008. Do iPhone users have anything to worry about? Well, I'd say that all depends on whether there are enough users from the "stupid crowd" to target. After all, hackers follow the path...
- Tags: Apple iPhone, Hacker, Hacking, Microsoft Windows, Security, Operating Systems, Software, Adrian Kingsley-Hughes
- Blog posts 2007-12-12
- News to know: IE 8 anticipation; LiveJournal sold; Facebook's fumble
- Notable headlines: Mary Jo Foley: Users clamoring again for an Internet Explorer 8 update. Ryan Naraine: IE vs Firefox: Microsoft crunches security numbers. Dan Farber: Facebook: The canary in the social networking coal mine. Techmeme. CA: Facebook's Misrepresentation of Beacon's Threat to Privacy:...
- Tags: Google Inc., Microsoft Office 2007, Facebook, Microsoft Internet Explorer, Microsoft Corp., Six Apart Ltd., LiveJournal, One Laptop Per Child Project, Motorola Inc., Fuel Cells, Web Browsers, Emerging Technologies, Internet, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2007-12-03
- Google confirms JotSpot will replace Google Pages
- Last week I wrote about some interesting clues that suggested Google Pages would be replaced by something Google purchased a while ago called JotSpot. JotSpot is a tool that people have been using for quite a while to help them create collaborative websites like intranets, project management tracking, and...
- Tags: Google Inc., JotSpot, Scott, Productivity, Project Management, Web Site Development, Tools & Techniques, Groupware, It Operations, It service Management, Internet, Management, Enterprise Software, Software, Garett Rogers
- Blog posts 2007-12-02
- JotSpot to power new Google Sites in 2008
- The usually tight-lipped Google revealed a few details on plans for Google Apps at a presentation in Ann Arbor, Michigan, where the company headquarters its AdWords team. Scott Johnston, a product manager for Google collaboration products, pitched members of the Ann Arbor Area Chamber of Commerce on the benefits of...
- Tags: Google Inc., Google Apps, JotSpot, Scott, Wiki, Productivity, Telecom & Utilities, Online Communications, Dan Farber
- Blog posts 2007-12-01
- Let's play spin the bottle
- Everybody gets to put their spin on the safety or danger of the plastic bottles that line our shelves, fill our landfills and litter our lives. Just today the "New York Times" style section has a piece on the greenness of bringing your own water bottle with you. ...
- Tags: Chemicals, Uncertainty, Bottle, Nalgene, NRDC, Harry Fuller
- Blog posts 2007-11-15
- Three things that could help you save some trees, or other raw materials
- The three technologies I'm about to discuss really have no relation to each other than the fact that they could all help reduce our dependence on paper in our everyday work lives. So I thought them worth a mention to spark some creative thinking. 1. The Accellion Secure...
- Tags: Tree, Accellion Green Award, LDAP, Financial Planning, Marketing Research, Business Structures, Tools & Techniques, Directory Services, Enterprise Software, Software, Finance, Marketing, Management, Heather Clancy
- Blog posts 2007-11-12
- Paradise for tech tinkerers
- Paradise for tech tinkerersThat would be sweet..Although the daily price is a little high to me. I think something around $10-15 for a day would be perfect. However, I guess $30 isn't too bad considering what it costs to rent tools from the hardware store.I have a couple...
- Tags: tech tinkerer, Paradise
- Discussion threads 2007-11-05
- SAP to unveil Web-delivered business software
- SAP to unveil Web-delivered business softwareSAP [i]Business byDesign[/i] may need redesignAfter four years of R&D and a $400-m investment, SAP has come up with a Software as a Service SaaS model which they say will address over 600,000 companies. They seem to have missed a key point in trying to...
- Tags: Tools & Techniques, Sales force management, Strategy, Web, SAP AG, software, business software
- Discussion threads 2007-09-19
- Can Trend Micro's botnet identification service make a difference?
- Trend Micro today rolled out its SecureCloud software-as-a-service platform with a new Botnet Identification Service BIS to help find botnet command-and-control servers and block communications between them and the zombie PCs they control.Geared towards ISPs and enterprise customers, the botnet ID service can be used to block communication to/from command-and-control...
- Tags: Vulnerability research, Viruses and Worms, Symantec, Spyware and Adware, Spam and Phishing, Rootkits, Responsible disclosure, Punditocracy, Pen testing, Patch Watch, Microsoft, Passwords, Metasploit, McAfee, Hackers, Google, Firefox, Exploit code, Data theft, Browsers, Botnets
- Blog posts 2007-07-30
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