Tuesday, January 25, 2011
Spam not going anywhere anytime soon Although pharmaceutical spam saw a decline, spam in general continues to threaten enterprises by targeting employees and challenging network performance
Thursday, October 21, 2010
IBM uses 'virtual doorman' to lock down cloud The company's Virtual Protection System includes rootkit detection for virtualized environments
Monday, June 07, 2010
Trend Micro pushes into virtual desktop security The company's latest endpoint security product protects Citrix, VMware virtualized desktops. Trend Micro said Windows 7 support will be added
Thursday, June 03, 2010
Copyright bill lacks clarity for IT security pros Many of the bill’s critics have said the new legislation sends mixed messages to consumers, but the IT industry is also stepping up to the plate looking for more clarity on whether or not their security research will become illegal
Monday, May 10, 2010
Researchers to cure Blue Pill virtualization attacks North Carolina State University researchers develop virtualization security software HyperSafe in an effort to protect hypervisors from a rootkit attack
Tuesday, April 20, 2010
Canadian privacy czar singles out Google in letter Canada's privacy commissioner teams up with nine privacy authorities from around the world to warn Google over its privacy practices. What the coalition is demanding, and how a Forrester Research analyst said Google can avoid being the "poster-child for privacy-eroding evil empires”
Tuesday, October 20, 2009
U.K. mulls prison sentences for data misuse If plans go through, arrested data thieves could face two years in the slammer
Wednesday, September 09, 2009
Data leakage prevention going mainstream Though most small companies surveyed have yet to install DLP, compliance requirements such as PCI are driving larger firms, especially in financial services, to buy the technology. Find out what Nemertes Research predicts
Thursday, May 14, 2009
Will Google Street View have to say sayonara to Japan? Banned in Greece and chased out of a village in England, Google is now facing complaints from Japanese who say the search engine's Street View cameras are placed to high and peering into private areas
Thursday, December 04, 2008
Lenovo laptops offer built-in tracing software Lenovo is the second hardware vendor to use the Vancouver-based Absolute Software to track lost laptops
Monday, October 13, 2008
U.S. Seeks to shut tech products backdoors As part of a cybersecurity thrust, the government will revamp acquisition rules to guard against malicious code embedded in electronic products
Thursday, September 18, 2008
U.S. releases new details on cybersecurity initiative Officials plan to focus on backdoors built into tech products and a better cyberdefense system.
Sunday, September 14, 2008
Juniper deals services on a card New SRX family lets managers configure gateway for security or connectivity by swapping cards. An industry analyst says it looks to be more flexible than other products
Thursday, August 28, 2008
Civil liberties groups in doubt merits of upcoming child database UK department dismisses claims that child database will be used to detect crimes and evidence for prosecution
Sunday, July 06, 2008
Norton AV 11 works well on the Mac This virus scanner protects your machine in the background and lets users exclude volumes from auto-scanning. But scanning a 170 GB drive takes a while
Wednesday, July 02, 2008
Microsoft trumpets security additons in IE8 The company will use multiple third-party sources to compose the blacklists for both phishing and malware-hosting sites, and will also draw on data gathered by Windows Defender, its free anti-spyware tool
Wednesday, May 14, 2008
EU raises privacy issue for Google Street View Google's Street View service lets people see images of almost everything on streets it photographs. That's a concern in Europe, where privacy standards are among the highest in the world. An EU official speaks out
Sunday, May 11, 2008
Gemalto, McAfee launch joint security offering The joint security offering combines Gemalto’s .NET smart card and other security products with McAfee Endpoint Encryption and Total Protection Data tools.
Monday, March 24, 2008
Prime Minister Brown says Britain at risk of cyber attack Britain is under increased threat from state-sponsored cyber attacks, the government says, and it plans to spend on IT to tackle them. Announcing the publication of the first National Security Strategy for the U.K. last week, Prime Minister Gordon Brown said the government will "modernize its interception capability."
Tuesday, March 18, 2008
Adobe releases content protection app New Adobe Flash Media Rights Management Server guards Adobe Flash content
Wednesday, March 12, 2008
Sophos endpoint suite adds network access control The British firm said the application, which will be available next month, will also cover antivirus, antispyware, intrusion protection and application access
Wednesday, March 05, 2008
Get sales leads from your Web site Docmetrics embeds forms into PDF documents published on Web sites, so companies can get contact information for the readers. The vendor was originally in the business of digital rights management
Monday, March 03, 2008
Seagate unveils Cheetah 15k.6 hard drive The drive is said to be more energy-efficient than previous versions and has data transfer rates of 164 MB per second. 
Monday, February 11, 2008
British ISPs may be forced to chop service to stop theft Britons who illegally download movies and music could have their Internet service stopped under a proposal being quietly circulated by the government. 
Monday, December 10, 2007
Undersea cabling venture proposed London’s Global Marine Systems Ltd. plans to join forces with Shenzhen, China-based network equipment maker Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd. to form an undersea cabling company with fiber supporting transfer rates of 1.28 terabits per second