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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

Back to school special: Big thanks to our green tech kids

I have no children so I really can't appreciate the end of August, when the parents I know count down the hours until their offspring heads back to the classroom. But I do remember mourning the bittersweet end of summer in the northeast, when crickets chirp of a summer evening...

Tags: Green Technology, Canon Inc., Corporate Communications, Team Management, Marketing, Management, Heather Clancy

Blog posts 2008-08-21

Typosquatting the U.S presidential election - a security risk?

Cybercriminals know how to take advantage of anticipated traffic by abusing the momentum of a particular event, like the U.S presidential election in this case. Everyone, from scammers coming up with legitimately looking donation sites that they will later on spam, to the a bit more complex blackhat search engine...

Tags: Campaign, Domain, Internet, Security, Dancho Danchev

Blog posts 2008-08-21

Nokia and Sun confirm S40, J2ME vulnerabilities

According to published reports, Nokia and Sun have both confirmed the existence of serious security problems in the Series 40 and Java 2 Platform Micro Edition (J2ME), giving instant credibility to the claims by Polish hacker Adam Gowdiak. Gowdiak left, one of the four LSD researchers who discovered...

Tags: Nokia Corp., J2ME, Sun Microsystems Inc., Vulnerability, Java, Security, Programming Languages, Software Development, Software/Web Development, Ryan Naraine

Blog posts 2008-08-21

Exploit code published for Apache Tomcat flaw

The United States Computer Emergency Response Team (US-CERT) has raised an alarm for a serious vulnerability in Apache Tomcat, warning that a proof-of-concept exploit is publicly available. The code, posted to Milw0rm.com, exploits a directory traversal vulnerability vulnerability in the way Apache Tomcat handles malformed requests. ...

Tags: HTTP, XSS, Apache Software Foundation, Exploit Code, Apache Tomcat, Flaw, Open Source, Application Servers, Middleware, Enterprise Software, Software, Ryan Naraine

Blog posts 2008-08-21

Fastest-growing Web categories in France in May 2008

Site Category Apr-2008 May-2008 Growth Total Internet : Total Audience 30,649 31,066 1% Weather 6,107 7,445 22% Retail - Sports/Outdoor 2,145 2,586 21% Genealogy 772 930 21% Maps 10,347 11,622 12% Sports 10,187 11,272 11% Travel...

Tags: Category, Government, Internet, Vertical Industries, Benefits, Healthcare, Enterprise Software, Software, Human Resources, NB

Blog posts 2008-08-21

Hyperic CloudStatus adds Google App Engine monitoring

There are many factors that could be seen as impediments to the adoption of "cloud computing" architectures. One of them is the assumption by some suppliers that organizations are going to leap with both feet into running important applications offsite somewhere in the cloud. These folks haven't learned from what...

Tags: Google Inc., Performance, Monitoring, CloudStatus, Hyperic Inc., Google App Engine, Cloud Computing, Productivity, Performance Management, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Dan Kusnetzky

Blog posts 2008-08-21

FCC issues 'radical' order re: Comcast

The FCC has released its formal decision PDF against Comcast, ordering it to stop throttling BitTorrent traffic. As Wired's David Kravets views it, it's an open invitation for ISPs to censor content – so long as they're protocol-agnostic about it. Calling the decision "vitriolic," Kravets says:...

Tags: FCC, Commission, Network, Comcast Corp., Internet Service Provider, Network Management, Federal Government, Internet Service Providers (ISPs), Sales Force Management, Networking, Government, Internet, Sales, Richard Koman

Blog posts 2008-08-20

Technology: where on the scale from cure to curse?

I'm old enough to remember the many apocalyptic scenarios conjured up by nuclear weapons and the Cold War. From Alas, Babylon to "The Day After", from Godzilla himself, the second half of the Twentieth Century was repeatedly haunted by vivid imaginings of the post-nuclear world, or its ending....

Tags: Bee, Clean Technology, NRDC, Purdue, Harry Fuller

Blog posts 2008-08-20

Intel, Yahoo team up on interactive TV platform

At the Intel Developer Forum in San Francisco, Intel's Eric Kim and Yahoo's Patrick Barry demo a new TV platform designed to bring rich Internet applications featuring sports, weather, and financial information to the living room. Consumer electronics that use Intel's architecture will offer the Yahoo Widget Engine, an applications...

Tags: Interactive TV, Team, Yahoo! Inc., Intel Corp., TVs, Tv & Home Theater, Financial Accounting, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, Finance, Widget, Intel, Yahoo

Videos 2008-08-20

Opera patches 7 vulnerabilities but keeps one a secret

Opera Software has shipped a new version of its flagship Web browser with fixes for at least seven documented security problems but details on one vulnerability -- a cross-site scripting issue reported by Chris Weber-- is being kept under wraps. Opera warned that one of the seven...

Tags: Opera Software, Vulnerability, Security, Ryan Naraine

Blog posts 2008-08-20

What SaaS can teach us about customer service

In the SaaS model, the power is with the customer and vendors need to take a very different approach to both sales and service, here's how to do it says Archie Black, President and CEO of SPS Commerce. Commentary--Software-as-a-Service SaaS is one of the fastest growing segments of...

Tags: Customer Service, Software-as-a-service, Customer, Software As A Service (SaaS), Cloud Computing, Product Marketing, Customer Relationship Management (CRM), Emerging Technologies, Marketing, Enterprise Software, Software, SaaS, software. customer service, sales, Archie Black, SPS Commerce, Special to ZDNet

News items 2008-08-20

Can Adobe mitigate 'clipboard hijack' issue?

Adobe's product security incident response team PSIRT says it is investigating possible solutions to the clipboard hijack attacks spotted on Flash-based advertisements on high-profile Web sites. A barebones note on the PSIRT blog simply acknowledges the issue and promised more information after the investigation but, by mentioning...

Tags: Adobe Systems Inc., Security, Ryan Naraine

Blog posts 2008-08-20

Identity theft for the hip blogger on-the-go?

Xpenser allows users to send their expense information to a hosted spreadsheet using SMS, IM, Twitter and Jott. Security risk, anyone? by Jennifer Leggio

Tags: Financial, IM, SMS, Twitter, Blogger, Xpenser, Text Messaging/SMS/MMS, Telephony, E-mail, Financial Management, Financial Accounting, Identity Theft, Instant Messaging, Cellular Phones, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Online Communications, Networking, Financial Planning, Finance, Security, Internet, Jennifer Leggio

Blog posts 2008-08-20

The news on Intel's Nehalem; chips with integrated GPUs up next

Intel has given new details of what it calls the biggest change in its processor platform in a decade. The new information on Nehalem, discussed in keynotes and presentations at the Intel Developer Forum this week, was expected. Nehalem isn't a single product, but a family of...

Tags: Core, Intel Corp., Chip, GPU, Nehalem, Processors, Semiconductors, Hardware, Components, John Morris

Blog posts 2008-08-20

UK CS graduates more likely to be unemployed

People over the years have said to me, "computers are the future; you'll end up getting a great job with wads of money." I'm not a money person, to be honest; I think my CV over the last couple of years proves that to some extent. But with new information...

Tags: Computer Science, Computer, Productivity, Zack Whittaker

Blog posts 2008-08-20

Sun release claims Sun Ray shipments nearly double

Sun just issued a press release claiming that its shipments of Sun Ray "thin client" systems nearly doubled. The most exciting part of the announcement was that the document was sent not as a text message, not as an HTML formatted document, but as a Sun Staroffice document. I'm sure...

Tags: Sun Microsystems Inc., Sun Ray, Sun Ray Unit Shipment, Desktop Virtualization, Desktops, Thin Clients, Hardware, Dan Kusnetzky

Blog posts 2008-08-20

PDF Splitter and Merger (exe)

PDF Splitter and Merger is a PDF tool developed for quicker and more efficient access to information needed from your PDF files, reorganizing them in a way that makes them easier to manage and handle. With the ability to split PDF files into separate documents, either by page range or...

Tags: Merger, Adobe PDF, PDF Splitter & Merger

Software downloads 2008-08-20

MIT students ungagged: Judge vacates gag order

MIT students ungagged: Judge vacates gag orderThere was no trespassAs stated above, this was a case where a public agency didn't want researchers to reveal their security holes for fear of being exposed to malicious hackers. The students themselves merely identified the holes, likely exploits and suitable repairs. They provided...

Tags: Advertising & Promotion, SECURITY, Hacking, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Discussion threads 2008-08-19

Live from IDF: Entertainment, WiMax and a sense of security.

When you're talking tech, it never hurts to have a convertible BMW on stage with you. The afternoon keynote speeches at the Intel Developer Forum covered a lot of ground and some eye candy to keep us focused on what a couple of hours of geek speak can morph into,...

Tags: Security, Laptop Computer, Entertainment, Computer, Intel Corp., WiMAX, Advertising & Promotion, Productivity, Wireless, Wi-Fi, Notebooks, Marketing, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, Sam Diaz

Blog posts 2008-08-19