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Internal Information Espionage

Attacks from the outside are no longer the only mechanism by which espionage is occurring. Internal information espionage, or the acknowledgement of its existence, is in 2007 a topic in vogue. One need only look at the Pentagon, Department of Homeland Security, Boeing and AIG for examples of acknowledgements in...

Tags: Acknowledgement, Espionage, I.D. Rank Security, Information Espionage, Security, Network Security, Networking

White papers 2007-11-01

Additional Resources

Friday Challenge: What's your take on OS/browser market share trends?

Firefox is taking over...With Firefox the days of vendor lock-in withIE required are over, like banking sites theyare cross-platform as they should be.I use CentOS/Fedora/RHEL and use I am able todo all of my job functions and use any applicationI want without the fear of security holes andthreats from a...

Tags: Web browsers, Operating systems, COMPANIES, Other Countries, Web browser, Friday Challenge, operating system, Mozilla Firefox, browser market share, security hole, security, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Windows

Discussion threads 2009-11-13

Apple's touch ecosystem taking off (and it may be more than fun and games)

Apple's touch ecosystem taking off and it may be more than fun and gamesCharts and report data have a flaw in sector definition of Touch EcosystemI see that report data for the Education sector is not in a Top rank. Your source may forget about the existing Educational Touch...

Tags: Microsoft Windows, Game players, Operating systems, Monitors & displays, Apple Inc., Microsoft Windows Mobile, Apple iPhone, phone, game

Discussion threads 2008-12-08

Ozzie responds: Is Microsoft Azure just 'Hailstorm' revisited?

Ozzie responds: Is Microsoft Azure just 'Hailstorm' revisited?Yes... in theoryAlright, to ansswer your question, I believe Microsoft has an answer, in theory. We need to see it work in the real world.This will work, if for example, I am user A, and I own Data A. And User B is...

Tags: RSS, Ozzie, User B, Hailstorm, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Azure

Discussion threads 2008-10-29

Sorry, conspiracy buffs, there's no Windows "back door"

Sorry, conspiracy buffs, there's no Windows "back door"What do you expect?From the loosers at ValleyWag and the rest of the SV echochamber?They're like Hillary Clinton. Screeching and screeching lies until people believe they are true.I was actually expecting a refutationAll you've really said is that law enforcement doesn't need a...

Tags: Operating systems, Microsoft Windows

Discussion threads 2008-04-29

Another reason Microsoft should give up on Yahoo: Morale

Another reason Microsoft should give up on Yahoo: MoraleCan you please point to the timesThat Yahoo has made a loss in the past few years?And what makes you think any lawsuits against Yahoo is going to succeed? In the spirit of your cloud cuckoo land, I'd say it's more likely...

Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Microsoft Windows, Investment, Financial accounting, Microsoft Corp., Yahoo! Inc., morale, Microsoft Windows Vista

Discussion threads 2008-04-28

Websense CEO Gene Hodges on attack vectors, the future of AV and the malware arms race

Websense CEO Gene Hodges on attack vectors, the future of AV and the malware arms raceSounds like the Human component is still neededWith Enterprise 2.0 we seem to want to take the human element out of the picture as much as possible, but at the same time, when we have...

Tags: Web site development, Web technology, malware, Websense Inc., Web site, attack vector

Discussion threads 2008-02-19

Remove tell-tale metadata from Microsoft apps

Remove tell-tale metadata from Microsoft appsA format change is often easier...If you're sending the file to someone who just needs to read it, I would convert the document to PDF. No metadata with no fuss.Word Bytes Man!...[url=http://www.computerbytesman.com/privacy/blair.htm]FYI[/url]The ultimate metadata embarrassment...Not me, but someone who must not have had a...

Tags: Microsoft Word, Word processors, Microsoft Corp., OOo, Microsoft Office

Discussion threads 2007-12-17

So about that Leopard OS...

So about that Leopard OS...Sticking with Tiger... for nowWhat about "I'm sticking with Tiger, but not indefinitely"? In my case, I'm waiting for a Leopard-compatible release of Mark/Space's Missing Sync for Windows Mobile.Forced to stick with Tiger...Currently as far as I can tell, I have to stick with Tiger;...

Tags: Operating systems, Desktops, UNIX, Leopard, Leopard OS, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Windows XP

Discussion threads 2007-11-30

Is Microsoft Office 2007 outselling Windows Vista?

Is Microsoft Office 2007 outselling Windows Vista?Call me "1 in 70 million"....I purchased the $59 Office2007 Ultimate version thru the Ultimate Steal program.PrioritiesMicrosoft has apparently been discounting MSO2K7 to fire-sale levels. As a strategic move, this makes sense since they need to get the new file formats up to...

Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Operating systems, Microsoft Windows Vista, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Office, Microsoft Windows

Discussion threads 2007-09-14

Trend Micro, Zone Labs, ClamAV join list of insecure security products

Trend Micro, Zone Labs, ClamAV join list of insecure security productsWhy only these three?Symantec, McAfee, Microsoft Defender engine, they've all had nasty HEAP exploits. Cisco security products. Snort. Heck, we can pretty much add all of them.I'd like to hear what has been seenabout Avast AV, and...

Tags: Tools & Techniques, Cyberthreats, Viruses and worms, Zone Labs Inc., Anti-Virus Software, Trend Micro Inc., ClamAV, software, Comodo, security

Discussion threads 2007-08-22

How Microsoft battles Google in Search warfare

Is Google Enterprise Search a joke? I noted yesterday, given Google was the butt of jokes at the Enterprise Search Summit in New York City earlier this week. Kevin Gough, Senior Product Marketing Manager for Google Enterprise, made a case at the Summit for why Google to big business: Google...

Tags: Enterprise, Google, Google Apps, Google Software Applications, Microsoft, Search

Blog posts 2007-05-17

The Great Vista/Mac Showdown: Return to battle, no memory hogs found at startup

The Great Vista/Mac Showdown: Return to battle, no memory hogs found at startupMac OS X memory footprint is much smallerOf course, given 2GB Mac OS X will use the memory more freely.Try running both on 512 MB of RAM and you'll see Mac OS X is much more efficient.Does this...

Tags: Operating systems, Memory, Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Desktops, RAM, Apple Macintosh, operating system, Microsoft Windows Vista, Apple Mac OS X, Apple Mac OS

Discussion threads 2007-02-21

Apple guru combats month of bugs

Apple guru combats month of bugsGoodvolunteering quite commendable, and stepping up to the challenge, beyond what most commercial entities would do. To play devil's advocate, Cisco for example, might just deny and threaten against the flaw announcers.Why does Landon hate Apple so much?Just curious. It is obvious that there...

Tags: Apple Inc.

Discussion threads 2007-01-03

Banks rated for ID theft

Banks rated for ID theftMy ID was stolen by a BofA EmployeeA credit card account was opened in my name by a BofA employee when I went in to make a deposit, without my knowledge or consent, and I am still fighting to get this removed from my credit report...

Tags: Financial services, God, Bank of America Corp., bank, identity theft, Florida Commerce Credit Union

Discussion threads 2006-09-26

Google the ISP with 2^96 IPv6 addresses

Google the ISP with 2^96 IPv6 addresses2^96I guess that should be enough!And if the popularity of NAT continues, more than enough!;)Google as ISP... because of net neutrality???It might be a stretch, but if one thinks about it, it would make sense.If Google were to become an ISP, they would be...

Tags: Internet service providers (ISPs), NETWORKING, TELECOMMUNICATIONS, Network technology, U.S. Government, Google Inc., IPv6, IP, IPv6 Address

Discussion threads 2006-06-25

University server in hackers' hands for a year

University server in hackers' hands for a yearOne reason why I never trust THEIR computers . . ."Should we have? Yes. Did we? No."In other words, they were lazy and not proactive.This is the system where our future generations are supposed to be learning about life?And oh, yeah - that's...

Tags: PRODUCTIVITY, Hacking, server, govt, hacker, security, computer, IT Dept

Discussion threads 2006-05-21

Spammers find new outlet

Spammers find new outletFederal Death Penaltyfor all spammers . . .... new outlet ?....a new outlet ????? The bozo over at LINUXCAD has been doing this for years.45% Affiliate fee"Sergeant believes individuals and companies are abusing the system to increase their Google ranking, or increase the resale value of a...

Tags: Spam, Google Inc., spammer, new outlet, board

Discussion threads 2006-01-11

Microsoft Live no jive

Microsoft Live no jiveAnother MS innovation: renaming 's/w utlity' to 'MS Live s/w'These people are boring and completely without any imagination. If they could divert their skills in fooling people to comming up with innovative computing models, they could have done something wortwhile in their lives. Like a shark is...

Tags: Tools & Techniques, Web browsers, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Office, advertisement, software

Discussion threads 2005-11-01

Tempted by blogs, spam becomes 'splog'

Tempted by blogs, spam becomes 'splog'The scum of the earth never rest :(NTTempted by blogs, spam becomes 'splog'And just what did they think was going to happen? Spam came on usenet, it came on emails, it came on web pages, it came on message boards.Googlewashing"People querying the well-known bloggers' names...

Tags: Blogging, Cyberthreats, Wiki, blog, API, spam

Discussion threads 2005-10-20