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Time for a SaaS code of conduct

It may seem unfair that SaaS providers get bad publicity whenever their systems fail - on-premise software is always going down without hitting the headlines. But people expect better from SaaS. The industry needs its own code of conduct. by Phil Wainewright

Tags: Cloud Computing, Code Of Conduct, Customer, E-mail, Emerging Technologies, Human Resources, Manufacturing, Online Communications, Outage, Phil Wainewright, Policies And Procedures, Software As A Service (SaaS), Software-as-a-service

Blog posts 2008-10-17

Consultant Code Of Conduct

Consultants often require a very high ethical standard when pursuing clients and performing work for them. These strict standards are required to ensure the best interest of the client and the security of all data that the consultant may come in contact with. A consultant's conduct not only...

Tags: Consultant, Code Of Conduct, Policies And Procedures, Outsourcing, Quality, Human Resources, It Operations, Business Operations, Outsourcing & Subcontracting

Download resources 2008-09-05

On eve of Olympics, Internet companies agree to code of conduct

On eve of Olympics, Internet companies agree to code of conductSynthetic rageWhat a bunch of pompous windbags these politicians are. They have no interest in freedom of expression or privacy; just try upsetting the almighty mandarins at H*meland Security and see how far you get with that kind of argument....

Tags: Policies and procedures, code of conduct, Dissidents, Internet

Discussion threads 2008-08-06

On eve of Olympics, Internet companies agree to code of conduct

Internet companies have reached agreement on a voluntary code of conduct for doing business in China and other repressive countries, Sen. Dick Durbin (D-IL) announced yesterday. “I commend Google, Yahoo!, Microsoft, and other participants for agreeing on the principles of an internet freedom code of conduct,”...

Tags: Google Inc., Censorship, Yahoo! Inc., Agreement, Code Of Conduct, Internet, Policies And Procedures, Human Resources, Richard Koman

Blog posts 2008-08-05

Blogging codes of conduct: consensus still seems unlikely

Blogging codes of conduct: consensus still seems unlikelyGood morning Denise Howell .I haven't heard of you before. I'd like to know why ZDNET has been keeping you hidden from the rest of us ?Just not simple...As for a code of conduct what seems legit in in one part of...

Tags: Policies and procedures, blog, blogging, code of conduct

Discussion threads 2007-04-10

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Global cyberwar: Installed in your PC at home, the office and government

Personal Accountabilityas long as people can think and act as though their conduct on the internet is shrouded in anonomity.Until each of us takes full responsibility for what we do and operates with the knowledge that our 'unique' verifiable identities can be obtained readily, the carnage will continue and broaden.A...

Tags: PRODUCTIVITY, Vertical industries, government, computer, PC-At Home, Internet, car

Discussion threads 2009-10-21

Seeking a Stallman for open source

Stallman is for OSS what Washington was for USAWe need more people like Stallman to liberate us from the M$ tirany not Benedict Arnolds like Icaza!We need to speek louder about M$ dirty deeds not to seek peace with the devil.Stallman is a liberalJust thought LinuxGeek ought to know that....

Tags: Digital rights management (DRM), Stallman, open source, Icaza, Microsoft Corp.

Discussion threads 2009-10-09

China's Green Dam and the cyberwar implications

Guest editorial by Oliver Day Chinese military leaders have always been aware of the military advantage the US has over the People's Liberation Army.  Reading through their published assessments of Sino-US war possibilities confirm our belief that we would dominate them in the...

Tags: Software, China, Vulnerability, Computer, Chinese Internet, Green Dam, Government, Productivity, Tools & Techniques, Internet, Vertical Industries, Security, Management, Ryan Naraine

Blog posts 2009-07-23

Pigs are flying low: Why Microsoft open-sourced its Linux drivers

Pigs are flying low: Why Microsoft open-sourced its Linux driversgpl2 forced them to free the source code In my opinion they need to kill virtualbox, vmware or kvm (redhat/ubuntu) so it's doesn't matter to throw some lines of code to the linux kernel via the novell proxy programmers Here is...

Tags: Federal government, OPEN SOURCE, UNIX, Operating systems, Microsoft Corp., FCC, Linux Drivers, Linux

Discussion threads 2009-07-22

Some important truths about pen-testing

Guest editorial by Alberto Soliño Penetration testing is a highly scientific, metrics-driven approach to IT security that has been in practice since almost the dawn of the modern computing era when programmers first began conducting organized tests, or “hacks” of their own, or others’ technologies to test...

Tags: Process, Security, Penetration Testing, IT Security, Information Technology, Organization, Ryan Naraine

Blog posts 2009-07-20

U.S. Armed Forces for iPhone and iPod Touch 1.2 (Mobile)

U.S. Armed Forces for iPhonen icluded uniform Code of Military Justice, manual for Courts-Martial, code of Conduct, documents such as On Maintaining an Army, Account of the Battle Between USS Monitor and CSS Virginia, Pearl Harbor speech, MacArthur's Farewell, 9/11 Address to the Nation, and Report to Congress on the...

Tags: Apple iPhone, Apple iPod, Mobile, Apple iPod Touch, CSS, Policies And Procedures, Web Site Development, Scripting Languages, Software/Web Development, Web Development, Human Resources, Internet

Software downloads 2009-06-03

US Congress Ready to Act on Human Rights Crisis in Tech Industry Supply Chains

Following on from yesterday's riff on traceability technology for Vietnamese fisheries, it turns out Silicon Valley may yet be its own best customer. Despite common knowledge of serious human rights abuses relating to the mining of cassiterite in the Democratic Republic of Congo the industry has not gone far enough to guarantee...

Tags: Enterprise Software, Finance, Financial Accounting, James Farrar, Mineral, Software, Supply Chain Management (SCM), U.S. Congress

Blog posts 2009-05-21

Is Twitter finally taking security seriously?

Now that Oprah's all a twitter, it looks like everyone's favorite micro-blogging tool is finally taking a hard look at security. According to a job listing posted online, Twitter is searching for software engineers to focus specifically on application and infrastructure security. ...

Tags: Twitter, Cyberthreats, Security, Viruses And Worms, Ryan Naraine

Blog posts 2009-04-27

Lesser of two security evils: Twitter Web or third-party clients?

Twitter Web might not be safe anymore and users may want to consider only tweeting and surfing through third-party applications for the time being. Yes, I know, there are all kinds of issues with using a third-party anything. And while I use and love TweetDeck and many are raving about...

Tags: Web, Worm, Twitter, Cyberthreats, Security, Viruses And Worms, Jennifer Leggio

Blog posts 2009-04-12

Facebook lets users govern worlds largest social network

Today, Facebook are creating an online space dubbed the "town hall" which will make changes to how the social network interacts with its users. In the last week or so, there was mass controversy over the sudden change in the terms and conditions which, essentially, allowed Facebook to do anything...

Tags: Facebook, Network, Social Networking, Networking, Online Communications, Marketing, Advertising & Promotion, Zack Whittaker

Blog posts 2009-02-26

Kaspersky suffers attack on support site, no apparent data breach

Word came out this weekend that the U.S. support site for the AV Vendor Kaspersky Labs was compromised by attackers. Earlier this week an attacker used a SQL Injection attack to compromise a section of the usa.kaspersky.com website and posted a list of database tables fetched via...

Tags: Kaspersky Lab, Attacker, Attack, Kaspersky, Security, Databases, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management, Adam O'Donnell

Blog posts 2009-02-09

SSL broken! Hackers create rogue CA certificate using MD5 collisions

Using computing power from a cluster of 200 PS3 game consoles and about $700 in test digital certificates, a group of hackers in the U.S. and Europe have found a way to target a known weakness in the MD5 algorithm to create a rogue Certification Authority CA, a breakthrough...

Tags: Certification Authority, SSL, Web Browser, Computer Associates International Inc., Certificate, Hacker, MD5, Web Browsers, Internet, Ryan Naraine

Blog posts 2008-12-30

SAAS Translator 0.0.16 (Windows)

SAAS Translator. The quickest, easiest and cheapest translation of a Website or a Web program can be done with SAAS translator. No source code changes are necessary, and anybody with language skills can conduct the translation. The result can be seen directly on your computer WYSIWYG. SAAS...

Tags: Source Code, Microsoft Windows, Translation, Eurocity Software, SAAS Translator

Software downloads 2008-12-28

Back up your online data. Now.

Back up your online data. Now.BackUp strategyI would trust a paid provider before I would trust my critical data to my own external device even if it was "backed up daily to a USB drive." I had an external USB drive stolen last month. (I don't keep my backup drive...

Tags: Software as a Service (SaaS), cloud computing, Notebooks, online data, Back-up

Discussion threads 2008-11-13

Black market for zero day vulnerabilities still thriving

One would assume that popular sources for zero day vulnerabilities+Poc's such as Full-Disclosure, Bugtraq or Milw0rm are the primary sources for obtaining responsibly or irresponsibly released flaws. They'd be wrong. The black market for zero day vulnerabilities and the concept of over-the-counter OTC trade of zero day flaws, has been...

Tags: Web, Vulnerability, Web Application, SQL Injection, Exploit, Day Vulnerability, E-shop, Security, Dancho Danchev

Blog posts 2008-11-02