Computerworld - Cloud computing is poised to win the title of most popular, and populist, buzzword of 2009. It certainly is gaining traction outside of IT. In fact, the idea of cloud computing has become so popular that executives and employees who don' ...
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Five start-up companies with very different technologies and business models on Thursday described how they plan to change the cable industry. At The Cable Show `09 held here this week, a session hosted by Comcast Interactive Capital ...
The rapid consolidation in the anti-data leakage market in the past year is enough to make an IT manager’s head spin: This segment of the security sector ballooned to include dozens of start-ups, then even more quickly dwindled down to a few ...
Anti-data leakage vendors make bold claims about how far their products can go to protect enterprises from unauthorized information sharing. This irks Nick Selby, head of enterprise security research at The 451 Group, who believes these tools are ...
In 2008, investments in start-ups that target consumers are expected to remain significantly hotter than those in companies building enterprise wares, as has been the case for the last few years. However, there are a few areas in corporate IT ...
Those who commit cybercrime know they need to stay on the cutting edge of technology to come up with new and different ways to swindle people. Luckily, the good guys are also spending time in research labs developing ways to thwart the latest ...
Here’s a new twist on Top 10 lists: Nick Selby today published his first annual BullsIT Awards to highlight outstanding achievements in double-talk, spin, and bad grammar by IT security vendors and their publicists. Selby, who leads enterprise security ...
With targeted phishing attacks on the rise, it’s no surprise that cybercriminals are doing their research and aiming at those with the most to lose – executives. According to security vendor MessageLabs, targeted phishing – e-mail scams that are ...
A father-son team that has dedicated time and energy to fighting spam says that as of today, it has shut down more than 50,000 Web sites that use unwanted messages to lure traffic. The team, named KnujOn (pronounced “new john”; the word is `no junk’ ...
According to Symantec’s Spam Monthly Report issued Monday, presidential hopefuls for the 2008 election are already hot subject-line topics, with Congressman Ron Paul emerging as spammers’ favorite. Meanwhile, image spam that just a year ago was ...
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