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  • Zeus malware now has Windows-like piracy protection

    The newest version of Zeus, a do-it-yourself malware kit responsible for millions of dollars in losses by consumers and businesses, comes with anti-piracy provisions similar to those used by Microsoft's Windows, a researcher said today.
  • US lifts Internet sanctions on Iran, Sudan, Cuba

    Not all mass-market tools dissidents would find useful are free.Many applications that are free to download require payment to get full functionality, sometimes including privacy and security features, Szoka said.If Treasury is worried about…
  • Crystal chips could lead to super encryption

    Many years and billions of dollars have been spent to make silicon the material used in computers, and we have to catch up with silicon. Researchers at Florida State University have discovered crystals that could lead to super security chips as…
  • How US domain registrar helped Iranian cyber army hack Baidu

    The complaint was filed last month in US District Court for the Southern District of New York, but the court only recently released an unredacted copy of the complaint.The complaint says Baidu's service was disrupted for five hours by the hack and…
  • US would lose cyberwar, says former spy official

    We will talk about it, we will wave our hands, we'll have a bill, but we will not mitigate this risk.After a major attack, the government will step in to secure the Internet, McConnell predicted.We're going to morph the Internet from something…
  • Chip makers work on 28nm processors

    Companies can spend months and tens of millions of dollars to tweak their designs for mass chip production.But the rewards for big companies are worth it. Xilinx, which makes a range of chips often used in communications gear, plans to release its…

Latest Features

  • Business needs new IT blood

    Companies are careful with philanthropic dollars. You can't count on climbing any career ladder. If we keep going the way we are now, this year we will outsource one in four IT jobs to India, Russia and other countries that supply low-cost labour…
  • Cloud, virtualisation: Wasting IT resources

    If you're spending a couple of thousand dollars per spindle, that adds up pretty fast.You can get around either storage I/O or resource limits by throwing hardware at them, but that's not either an elegant or a cost-effective solution, according…
  • Hackers capture Hollywood imaginations

    In the movie, a character played by Richard Pryor, uses what's known as "salami slicing" to skim thousands of dollars from his employer.Computers rule the world today, and the fellow that can fool the computer can rule the world himself," villain…
  • Apple App store's dirty little secret

    The app's uniqueness, not necessarily the app's actual benefit to golfers, caught Apple's eye, leading to iSwing being featured in the App Store.Keum also bet marketing dollars on social networks like Facebook and Twitter to promote iSwing.
  • Apple iPad offers IT department opportunities

    In their launch event Apple demonstrated iPad versions of iWork, their office suite (covering word processing, spreadsheets and presentations), with each application being available for just shy of ten dollars.
  • 2010 may be the year of the Apple Mac

    When you look at the price for the 15-inch MacBook Pro and the Lenovo T500, our house standards, there is really only a few dollars difference between the two. Apple was a bright spot in 2009 in terms of PC sales, but the signals are mixed as to…
 

How-Tos

  • How to protect your privacy on Facebook and Twitter

    And for bad guys who favor social-engineering and phishing attacks, taking advantage is like shooting fish in a barrel.Beware Friends Seeking MoneyMost people know enough to not respond to email requests from exiled Nigerian royalty promising…
  • How to manage iPhones With Exchange

    This requires an enterprise data plan for each device which can cost an additional $10-$15 dollars per month. When iPhones first started trickling into my office, I was a little apprehensive. At the time they only supported IMAP and POP3 for e-mail…
  • How to build a data forensics lab on the cheap

    This device runs for a few thousand dollars but can make copies at a rate of 4GB per min and is easy to ship to non-tech people to use. Logicube and other vendors also make small portable units for a few hundred dollars that work fine too.However…
  • How to create a transformation roadmap

    Standard provider project methodology will be followed.Then, each project can be categorised into one of three project types:Category A: Client/provider has sufficient information to start the project, create the project plan, define investment…
  • Future-proof your videoconferencing gear on a budget

    You can do this much less expensively," says Ira Weinstein, a partner in Wainhouse Research.Instead, companies already using videoconference equipment can selectively upgrade it to boost the illusion that participants are all in the same room…
  • Case Study: Building a case for e-discovery

    When your company is involved in nine or 10 lawsuits a year, the lack of an effective email discovery system can easily cost you thousands of dollars, John Buraczyk says, from personal experience.A senior IT manager for Texas construction company C.

Reviews

  • Toshiba Qosmio X505 review

    The main drawback is the extra expense: Loading up with more than the standard amount of RAM (2GB, these days) can add hundreds of dollars to a laptop's price, though it boosts performance by only about 10 percent.
  • HP StorageWorks 2000sa review

    It doesn't offer all the features of the more expensive systems, but at $13,000 (£5555 excl VAT on HP's UK website) for a blazing fast system, it offers great performance for the dollars. The HP 2000sa G2 Modular Smart Array is the first storage…
  • AMD and Intel budget chipsets

    I also took a look separately at AMD's Phenom II, a high-performance processor that sacrifices a little of that performance to save some significant dollars. For years, Intel and AMD have been battling for predominance in the processor/chipset market.
  • HP Pavilion DM3

    As an ultraportable user who didn't want to spend a lot of money, I gravitated to the dv2; and for a couple hundred dollars less and more features, the DM3 makes an equally strong case now for netbook users.
  • Dell XPS 625 review

    But if you're willing to consider systems priced just a few hundred dollars more, which throws Intel Core 2 Quad-based systems into the mix, the Dell XPS 625 loses its mojo.The Dell XPS 625 sports a brand-spankin'-new AMD Phenom II X4 940 processor.
  • QuickBooks Premier Edition 2009 review

    Dodgy economic conditions will encourage many businesses to sell offshore to foreign customers.QuickBooks Premier Edition 2009 lets you download up-to-date currency exchange rates so you can easily prepare invoices in Euros or other currencies…

White Papers

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    "When businesses start adding up the true cost of legacy tools, they may find that their reluctance to optimize their service desks is potentially costing them thousands of dollars in lost productivity and missed sales.
  • Five steps to successful data centre consolidation

    Using the five step process outlined in this white paper, we were able to eliminate more than 2,000 servers from our own IT infrastructure, saving an estimated $10 million dollars in data centre costs.
  • Software Common Hacks and Counterattacks

    Unfortunately, hackers are a persistent nuisance that cost software vendors worldwide billions of dollars in lost revenue. This white paper examines a variety of the most common hacking techniques, and the best counterattacks available for…
  • Connected but not collaborating

    Major corporations now compete not just locally but on an international scale, and have to regularly communicate with a wide variety of divisions, business partners, regulatory bodies and customers.Billions of dollars have been invested to date in…
  • Network firewall protection is not enough

    If a website's server and applications are not protected from security vulnerabilities, identities, credit card information, and billions of dollars are at risk. The defences you need to protect yourself against web application level attacks.
  • IBMs BladeCenter Family

    Available in starter kits for just a few dollars for the youngest hands, these bricks can be combined with other, more advanced sets to build more complicated structures as the child grows into his teenage years.
 
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