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  • OpenLogic sells open source audit service for M&As

    Analysts are predicting a significant rise in merger and acquisition activity during this year and next. OpenLogic, which provides support and auditing services for open source software, announced a new offering on Monday aimed at customers in the…
    16 March 2010
    Tags: Merger • Licences • Intellectual Property • Deals • Acquisition

  • PayPal users close accounts after Cryptome attack

    According to a story in The Register, the freezing of the account had been because "PayPal's Acceptable Use Policy clearly states that we don't allow PayPal to be used for items that encourage, promote, facilitate or instruct others to engage in…
    12 March 2010
    Tags: Restored • Paypal • Cryptome • Action • Accounts • Account

  • MySpace connects with Microsoft Outlook

    It also creates a separate contacts page with entries for each of your MySpace friends.According to the FAQ page set up by MySpace, "MySpace for Outlook allows you to see your MySpace friend status and activity updates right inside Outlook…
    12 March 2010
    Tags: Social Networking • Friends • Connector • Activity • Account

  • Celebrities caused 2009 Twitter crime wave

    By comparison, in 2006 it was 1.2 percent, in 2007 1.7 percent, and 2008 2.2 percent.As soon as the Twitter user base and activity levels increased, hackers were prepared with novel attacks to compromise users," commented Barracuda's CRO, Dr.
    10 March 2010
    Tags: Twitter • Targeting • Joined • Crime • Activity • Accounts

  • Bogus intranets scam university students

    It is not clear how a student would have found such a site assuming a direct URL was already in existence, but any student logging into what appeared to be the official webmail site would have had their data harvested.RSA is unsure as to the…
    08 March 2010
    Tags: University • Serve • Phishing • Measures • Institutions • Criminals

  • RSA extends security tools to VMware

    Administrators can configure policies for both types of clients from a central location, enforcing them with a variety of actions, such as blocking a user's access to certain data or notifying IT staff to manage activity, Curry said.Also, RSA…
    05 March 2010
    Tags: Packages • Events • Environments • Controls • Authentication • Actions

Latest Features

  • Five doomsday scenarios for IT apocalypse

    We are currently due for the 110-year solar flare.How to avoid this fate: Silent prayer to the deity of your choice.Manmade terrorist activity is bad, but as we've seen lately, Mother Nature is a bitch," says Siciliano.
    17 March 2010
    Tags: Wall Street • Stopped • Scenarios • Scenario • Rogue • Disaster Recovery

  • Low power Ethernet boosts green networks

    Mike Bennett and Bruce Nordman of LBNL chose to bring this task to the IEEE LAN MAN Networking group, which initiated a standardisation project (Project 802.3az).When the energy efficiency standards activity started in the 802.3 working group, one…
    04 March 2010
    Tags: Transmission • Savings • Metrics • Mechanisms • Idle • Efficiency

  • Security and the rise of corporate espionage

    Over the years, I have been discussing the nature and evolution of the cyber dimensions of warfare with Dietz, who served with distinction in the US Army as an expert in psychological operations and strategic communications,"I am frankly…
    01 March 2010
    Tags: Intellectual Property • Economy • Compromised • Audience • Aspects

  • FAQ: The Kneber botnet revealed

    The first activity from it was 25 March, 2009.Is it out of business now? It is sold for about $4,000 per copy, so there are many cybergangs using it to create botnets that they use for their individual illicit activity.Is there any hope of stopping…
    19 February 2010
    Tags: Trojan • Logs • Dangerous • Compromised • Agencies • Activity

  • The state of Internet security

    Likewise, if you know web security incidents are occurring, it is irresponsible not to protect the website.An effective web security strategy should be able to correlate web activity to the responsible user, as well as detect abnormal actions.
    18 February 2010
    Tags: Priority • Login • Javascript • Input • Databases • Actions

  • Four tips to avoid server failure in virtualisation projects

    To help with that effort, the team has developed a control panel that allows customers to log in and see how their virtual machines are handling reads, writes, disk space usage and other performance-affecting activity.
    15 February 2010
    Tags: Workloads • Workload • Ratio • Demands • Deeper • Consolidation

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  • How to protect your banking online

    Ask your bank if they have a fraud monitoring system in place to proactively detect suspicious online account activity, how they respond to alerts and how quickly. Many banks offer transaction alerts so customers can be automatically and instantly…
    09 March 2010
    Tags: Victim • Transfers • Transactions • Procedures • Assume • Alerts

  • How to fix cloud security

    Once its agent is installed in a private or public cloud infrastructure, it can perform deep packet inspection, monitor event logs and monitor system activity such as file changes for unauthorised activities, Thiemann says.Shavlik, a cloud-based…
    02 February 2010
    Tags: Responsibility • Iso • Incident • Cloud Computing • Agent • Access Control

  • How to avoid joining a botnet

    It's getting more difficult to keep employees stay safe and free from malicious activity online. Santorelli, director of global outreach with the non-profit security investigations firm Team Cymru, spends his days monitoring malicious online…
    20 November 2009
    Tags: House • Steve • Patching • Compromised • Banks • Attachment

  • Five ways to improve website uptime

    All of that activity will increase the stress on 10Gbit/sec. You can't fix the Internet, but you can tap these tools to decrease downtime for your organisation's website. When the site GDGT.com went live this past summer, Ryan Block was expecting a…
    05 November 2009
    Tags: Downtime • San Francisco • Advance • Mechanisms • Programming • Viewed

  • How to remove Conficker virus

    Some computers may have an errant process running that generates that type of activity. If there are three instances, this most likely is normal activity. How do you detect that you have been infected by Conficker, how do you clean your systems and…
    28 September 2009
    Tags: Active Directory • Scanning • Handling • Scan • Logs • Realise

  • How to sell open source software to your company

    peer feedbackReferencesContributing communityDocumentation/Books for end-usersDevelopment leadershipLeading teamManagement styleActivityDevelopers, identification, turnoverActivity on bugsActivity on functionalities Activity on…
    07 September 2009
    Tags: Criteria • Evaluation • Guidelines • Open Office • Freeware • Checklist

Reviews

  • Aliph Jawbone Icon review

    A small nub called the Voice Activity Sensor rests on your face while the unit sits in your ear. Aliph's new Jawbone Icon Bluetooth headset aims to combine good looks and a customisable, voice-driven interface.
    03 March 2010
    Tags: Talk • Noise • Icon • Face • Customisable • Aims

  • MSI P55-GD80 review

    The thermals are well taken care of, with a heatsink for the southbridge and heatpipe cooling around the processor socket.LED activity indicators are present all over, including even a small LED display to show error number or processor…
    18 February 2010
    Tags: Slots • Panel • Motherboard • Clock • Chipset • Board

  • Verbatim SureFire FireWire 800/USB review

    The hard drive started up as normal and looked no worse for the wear.You'll know when the Verbatim SureFire FireWire 800/USB is starting up because you can hear a faint hum or see the small blue LED light that denotes activity.
    12 February 2010
    Tags: Portable • Hard Drives • Hard Drive • Firewire • Carrying • Activity

  • Foursquare review

    Once you've out-gunned them then you can set your sites on becoming the ace Foursquare user of your city or main location.You can check your Foursquare activity on its website, which has a bunch of self-important graphs, statistics and check-in…
    22 January 2010
    Tags: Facebook • Check • Checking • London • Moment • Game

  • Trend Micro AntiVirus Plus AntiSpyware 2010 review

    But Trend Micro's seriously misguided attempt to over automate the interface nullifies the aforementioned strong points.When Trend finds a threat, its default behavior is to delete or quarantine the file without warning users of any activity.
    20 January 2010
    Tags: Micro • Antivirus • Apps • Scan • Detection • App

  • Corsair Survivor GT 32GB

    Once opened and in use, a little blue LED inside flickers for read/write activity. If you're looking for a bomb proof way to protect the data you carry around, look no further than the Corsair Survivor USB flash drive.
    16 December 2009
    Tags: Transfer • Water • Flash • Resilient • Corsair • Tube

White Papers

  • Phishing for victims: Truth, myth and cybercrime

    Yet the activity it described was blatantly criminal – the distribution of electronic communications ostensibly from a trustworthy source, but actually designed to dupe recipients into giving away their bank account or credit card details…
    25 January 2010
    Tags: Term • Activity • Threat • Account • Victims • Phishing

  • Why you should take an holistic approach to ITIL

    This provides role-based service support functionality that orchestrates and captures activity from a broad set of users - from outsourced service desk operators, to Level 4 technical specialists in IT operations, to business end users.This paper…
    05 August 2009
    Tags: Unified • Activity • Delivery • Communicate • Methodology • Holistic

  • Oracle Audit Vault

    Examination of numerous security incidents has shown that timely examination of audit data could have helped to detect unauthorized activity early and reduced the resulting financial impact.Audit data is playing an increasingly important role in…
    01 February 2009
    Tags: Consolidation • Activity • Compliance • Breaches • Detect • Enforce

  • The evolving enterprise: research results

    The Avanade Evolving Enterprise study 2008 is a comprehensive review of where UK enterprises feel they will be by 2010 and beyond and how IT will be impacting the business at that time All enterprises evolve over time seeking to meet changing…
    01 February 2009
    Tags: Micro • Activity • Cio • Economic • Communicate • Evolve

  • Best Practices for Building a Security Operations Centre

    NOCs can leverage network activity in addition to the real-time security event data to avert security incidents, while the SOC can similarly leverage network activity related to security events to further refine the identification of a specific…
    18 October 2007
    Tags: Activity • Event • Soc • Noc • Leverage • Events

  • Avoiding Legal Traps on the Web

    The media is rife with stories about liability judgments against companies as a result of a workers illegal activity on the Internet while using company equipment. Such activity can bring down a network due to overwhelming traffic and result in…
    06 August 2007
    Tags: United States • Protect • Assets • Copyright • Criminal • Liability

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