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- Will PlayStation, xBox spur mass migration to VoIP?
- PC Magazine's Matt Hines believes that the killer app that will spur mass migration to VoIP will be online video game platforms and networks such as Microsoft's xBox and Sony PlayStation. These networks are already "laced with VoIP," as Matt puts it.Matt's Playing Games with VoIP article, out this week,...
- Tags: VoIP, Matt Hines
- Blog posts 2005-09-26
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- Rise of the 'legit' malware sites
- About 75 percent of all Web sites serving up malicious code are legitimate sites that have been hacked/compromised, according to a new report from WebSense. This number validates statistics from ScanSafe showing a dramatic rise in 'good' sites being being used as a conduit for drive-by malware...
- Tags: Web, Vulnerability, Websense Inc., Malware, Spam, Attack, Cyberthreats, Spyware, Adware & Malware, Channel Management, Security, Viruses And Worms, Marketing, Ryan Naraine
- Blog posts 2008-08-01
- Demo exploits posted for unpatched MS Word vulnerability
- A security researcher has released demo exploits for what appears to be a critical -- unpatched -- memory corruption vulnerability affecting the ubiquitous Microsoft Word software program. The proof-of-concept exploits accompany a warning that the flaw affects Microsoft Office 2000 and Microsoft Office 2003. In addition to...
- Tags: Vulnerability, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Word, Word Processors, Microsoft Office, Security, Office Suites, Software, Ryan Naraine
- Blog posts 2008-06-23
- Notebook: Google Toolbar flaw; Gmail issues; Microsoft assessment tool
- A roundup of a few security odds and ends over the last two days. Unpatched Google Toolbar flaw presents an ID theft risk. Ryan Naraine at eWeek writes: A dialog spoofing vulnerability in the popular Google Toolbar could be exploited by malicious hackers...
- Tags: Google Toolbar, Google Inc., Google Gmail, Notebook, Vulnerability, Toolbar, Cenzic Inc., Microsoft Corp., Tool, Flaw, Identity Theft, Productivity, Security, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2007-12-19
- Symantec pulls trigger on Vontu deal
- Symantec has finally pulled the trigger on a deal to acquire DLP data loss prevention specialist Vontu. The anti-virus powerhouse announced today it will spend $350 million to be paid in cash and assumed options on the oft-rumored deal to gobble up the privately held San Francisco-based...
- Tags: Symantec Corp., Vontu, Security, Ryan Naraine
- Blog posts 2007-11-05
- Renegade spam fighter returns to game Digg, YouTube
- Almost exactly a year after an intense botnet denial-of-service attack destroyed the renegade Blue Frog anti-spam service, the Israeli programmers are back and you won't believe what they're up to.Eran Reshef, the Israeli entrepreneur who lost his battle with an organized spam ring background from Wired and SecurityFocus, has launched...
- Tags: Browsers, Botnets, Google, Passwords, Piracy, Spam and Phishing, Spyware and Adware, Vulnerability research
- Blog posts 2007-05-17
- Critical BlackBerry exploit to be released Aug 14
- If you're BlackBerry Enterprise Server isn't in "positioned" in a network DMZ, perhaps now is a good time to move it. According to a report by eWeek's Matt Hines, on Aug 14, security researchers will be releasing the code to an exploit that leverages a BlackBerry's capability to securely...
- Tags: RIM BlackBerry
- Blog posts 2006-08-08
- EMC ups ante in applying DRM to text
- Last week, I wrote about a strange DRM-esque message that Outlook displayed after I opened an e-mail with a PDF attachement. In all my years of using Outlook, I had never seen this message before and I had no idea why it was showing it to me now. ...
- Tags: EMC Corp.
- Blog posts 2006-08-07
- The elephant has entered the room (SAP joins hosted CRM fray)
- Early last summer (2005), on the heels of a News.com report that contemplated SAP's interest in entering the hosted CRM market (and taking on the likes of CRM ASP poster child Salesforce.com), my colleague Dan Farber quoted SAP CEO Henning Kagermann as saying that the company is not going to...
- Tags: SAP AG, CRM
- Blog posts 2006-01-30
- Same as it ever was...
- News.com's Matt Hines cites a new study by the Hackett Group showing that companies building too much complexity into HR and financial software systems will incur higher costs than companies that have simple strategies. The research group's findings were based on interviews with more than 2,000 companies. I could have...
- Tags: Hackett Group
- Blog posts 2005-07-19
- SAP heading into software-as-a-service?
- In a story today, News.com's Matt Hines reports on whether, or when, SAP will jump into the hosted/on-demand/SaaS applications business a la salesforce.com. Previously, SAP CEO Henning Kagermann said: "When on-demand came up, we at SAP felt we should be careful...that on-demand is not the next locked-in strategy. With on-demand,...
- Tags: SAP AG
- Blog posts 2005-07-01
- Gates proves real resolve in bringing spammers to justice
- Being somewhat of a tech-weenie -- one who's gone on endless tirades about spam -- I've always favored technical approaches over legal approaches to that which ails us when it comes to e-mail. Before most people knew what phishing was which was only last year, I tried to sound the alarm, and,...
- Tags: Microsoft Corp., spammer, Aaron Kornblum, phishing
- Blog posts 2005-03-31
- Now, HP denies rumors of executive shuffle
- Discounting a report that HP CEO Carly Fiorina's authority over the whole company was about to be diluted by an executive shuffle, a News.com story by Matt Hines quotes HP spokesperson Robert Sherbin as saying:"Boards discuss a wide range of topics consistent with their fiduciaryresponsibilities, and any speculation about these...
- Tags: Hewlett-Packard Co.
- Blog posts 2005-01-24
- 321 Studios close to shutting down
- 321 Studios close to shutting downAttn: Matt Hines!!!" The St. Louis company has been a standard-bearer for the idea of fair use of entertainment..."Where in the world did you come up with that drivel??? I know Mr. Moore and he has been thumbing his nose at the law and...
- Tags: Games, Tools & Techniques, Consumer electronics, DVD, software
- Discussion threads 2004-06-16
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