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- Check Point Drops Sourcefire
- Check Point Drops SourcefireUS officials were skittishIf you read various versions of the press around this announcement, one thing becomes clear: US security officials were sorrying about giving any foreign entity the right to guard sensitive data and systems. Witness this snip from the Reuters write-up: "In private meetings between...
- Tags: NETWORKING, network security, Check Point Software Technologies Ltd., network, security, Sourcefire Inc.
- Discussion threads 2006-03-24
- Check Point Drops Sourcefire
- Check Point has had second thoughts about its acquisition of Sourcefire which was being questioned by the feds. I blogged before that there was no grounds for the administration to question this acquisition but that Check Point should use this as an excuse to back away from the deal ....
- Tags: Sourcefire Inc., Check Point Software Technologies Ltd.
- Blog posts 2006-03-24
- Check Point Acquisition of Sourcefire Checked by Feds
- Check Point Acquisition of Sourcefire Checked by FedsBackdoors by design or accident?Surely you jest, Mr. Stiennon.In 2000, one year after Check Point's Firewall-1 was certified by the NSA as the only EAL-2 compliant application & traffic firewall product, a group of security researchers ripped the product to shreds in a...
- Tags: Firewalls, ASICs, Network security, SECURITY, Symantec Corp., Check Point Software Technologies Ltd., firewall, Sourcefire Inc., ASIC, acquisition
- Discussion threads 2006-03-05
- Check Point Acquisition of Sourcefire Checked by Feds
- The deal between Check Point Software, the one-time leading firewall vendor, and Sourcefire is in jeopardy thanks to a review by the Committee on Foreign Investments in the United States. See this Washington Post article for details. Where do these...
- Tags: Check Point Software Technologies Ltd.
- Blog posts 2006-03-03
- Check Point's dollars catch Sourcefire
- Check Point's dollars catch SourcefireWhich is whichThis is unequal signs[i]This is brackets[/i]
- Tags: Sourcefire Inc., Check Point Software Technologies Ltd.
- Discussion threads 2005-10-19
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- Forget the damn Linux netbooks. Can Windows replace Windows?
- My esteemed ZDNet colleague Ed Bott, God bless him, wrote a very insightful piece in which he discusses Taiwanese PC mainboard and component manufacturer MSI's challenges of selling Linux-based versions of their netbook, the Wind U90. Apparently, according to MSI, Linux-based versions of their netbook are...
- Tags: MSI, Linux, Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, UNIX, Open Source, Software, Jason Perlow
- Blog posts 2008-10-07
- Magink aims to outshine LED technology, but not outpower
- A six-year-old developer of reflective display technologies has snagged an indoor albeit heavily sunlit installation with the New England Patriots. Take a look. What makes Magink's technology interesting is not just the brightness of the picture OR the...
- Tags: Light-emitting Diode, Magink, Engineering, Heather Clancy
- Blog posts 2008-10-07
- I'm well aware what I pay for Google's services
- My post on Google earlier Tuesday was met with mixed reactions. A few folks agreed that, in fact, Google's suite of services is quite slick, long live GOOG, etc. Others, like fellow ZDNet blogger, Michael Krigsman, disagreed pretty strongly. In his response, http://blogs.zdnet.com/projectfailures/?p=1059, Michael didn't leave much...
- Tags: Google Inc., OpenOffice, Productivity, E-mail Providers, Open Source, Office Suites, Software, Internet, Christopher Dawson
- Blog posts 2008-10-07
- Adobe posts workaround for clickjacking flaw, NoScript releases ClearClick
- Following the recent release of a PoC demonstrating clickjacking in action, Adobe has released a security advisory offering solutions for customers and IT administrators on dealing with the flaw until they releases a Flash player patch before the end of October. "We have just posted a Security Advisory for...
- Tags: Adobe Systems Inc., Flaw, Macromedia Flash Player, Web Browser, Web Browsers, Security, Internet, Dancho Danchev
- Blog posts 2008-10-07
- Capital, Capital. Wherefore art thou scarce capital?
- My Kingdom for Capital Expenditure Funding The current meltdown on Wall Street is definitely having an impact on the technology sector. This week's recent earnings forecast from SAP rather convincingly showed us that the capital markets will adversely impact technology sales. Capital for...
- Tags: Wall Street, Firm, Borrower, Pricing Strategy, Banking Relationship, Sales Strategy, Banking, Pricing, Sales Force Management, Roi/Tco, Sales, Financial Services, Marketing, Finance, Managerial Accounting, Brian Sommer
- Blog posts 2008-10-07
- Restraining order against RealDVD stands
- As I suspected, Judge Marilyn Hall Patel today granted a temporary restraining order against Real's selling its RealDVD software. Real's next hope: a full-blown hearing into a permanent injunction. The judge said she needed more time to fully investigate whether the software in fact violates the Digital...
- Tags: Copy Protection, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2008-10-07
- Atrivo/Intercage's disconnection briefly disrupts spam levels
- After years of operation, California based ISP Atrivo/Intercage, a well known Russian Business Network darling, faced the music and was disconnected from the Internet by its upstream provider at the end of September. What happened according to MessageLabs's latest intelligence report, was a brief decline of spam due to the...
- Tags: Internet Service Provider, Atrivo/Intercage, Intercage, Atrivo, Internet Service Providers (ISPs), Internet, Cyberthreats, Security, Dancho Danchev
- Blog posts 2008-10-07
- Microsoft quietly halts sales of third-party activation offering
- Microsoft has halted -- temporarily, according to company officials -- sales of its Software Licensing and Protection SLP Services product. by Mary Jo Foley
- Tags: Microsoft Corp., SLP Services, Microsoft Windows, Piracy, Sales Strategy, Tools & Techniques, Operating Systems, Software, Business Operations, Corporate Law, Sales, Management, Mary Jo Foley
- Blog posts 2008-10-07
- CIO Sessions: Visa's Michael Dreyer
- Michael Dreyer, CIO of Visa talks to ZDNet correspondent Sumi Das about developing transaction technologies for its financial payment network including new wallet-less and contact-less payment solutions. Dreyer also discusses what it takes to process and handle more than 300 million transactions on a daily basis, and the company's response...
- Tags: Visa Inc., Payment, Operational Accounting, Finance, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-10-07
- Trying to increase productivity? Send your employees home.
- Companies that give their workers the option of telecommuting are seeing greater productivity, lower costs, improved employee health and greater employee retention, according to a survey released today by the Computing Technology Industry Association. Case in point: I'm typing this from this from my own home office...
- Tags: Phone, Telecommuting, Telecom & Utilities, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Sam Diaz
- Blog posts 2008-10-07
- Scammers introduce ATM skimmers with built-in SMS notification
- The bust of the notorious ATM scammer going under the handle of Cha0 in early September, once again puts ATM skimming in the spotlight. Among the main insecurities scammers face while embedding an ATM skimmer, is the retrieval process of the device that is now containing the credit card details...
- Tags: Device, Credit Card, built-In, SMS, Scammer, ATM, Network Technology, Text Messaging/SMS/MMS, Networking, Cellular Phones, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Online Communications, Dancho Danchev
- Blog posts 2008-10-07
- Google is your friend
- I know there are those among us who lack my love for all things Google. Sure, it shows our kids ads, keeps track of the searches coming out of our buildings, displays naughty thumbnails that only the best of content filters can block, most kids don't look beyond the...
- Tags: Google Inc., Web 2.0, Internet, Christopher Dawson
- Blog posts 2008-10-07
- TRO hearing today on RealDVD
- Federal Judge Marilyn Patel will hear arguments today on whether Real should be temporarily restrained from selling its RealDVD copying software. The software has been unavailable since Friday, when the Hollywood studios won an emergency halt on sales, a move that Real claims caused them "irreparable harm." ...
- Tags: DVD, RealDVD, Real, CSS, Scripting Languages, Software/Web Development, Web Development, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2008-10-07
- Visa CIO: Michael Dreyer
- Michael Dreyer, CIO of Visa talks to ZDNet correspondent Sumi Das about developing transaction technologies for its financial payment network including new wallet-less and contact-less payment solutions. Dreyer also discusses what it takes to process and handle more than 300 million transactions on a daily basis, and the company's response...
- Tags: Visa Inc., Payment, Operational Accounting, Finance, Administrator
- Blog posts 2008-10-07
- Visa CIO touts new transaction technologies
- Michael Dreyer, CIO of Visa, expresses what innovation means to him in different areas—such as their PayWave technology, which gives users the ability to send and receive money from anywhere.
- Tags: Visa Inc., CIO, Leadership, Strategy, Management, Visa
- Videos 2008-10-07
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