19 Jul 2010
Top 10 Social Networking Threats - By Network World staff, NetworkWorld.
Social network tools have changed the way we interact in our personal lives and are in the process of transforming our professional lives. Increasingly, they play a significant role in how business gets done. But they're also high risk. With hundreds of millions of users, these tools have ... |
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19 Jul 2010
IT gives Windows 7 the green light
Computerworld - Jim Thomas said no to Windows Vista — but Windows 7 is an entirely different matter.
Thomas, CIO at Pella Corp., says his IT team began beta testing Vista's successor a year ago as an upgrade path from Windows XP. By October, just two months after Windows 7 launched, ... |
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1 Mar 2006
Spyware is worse than most PC users think
KUALA LUMPUR: It is worrying that many computer users still seem to be ignorant of spyware, said a security solutions vendor. Andrew J. Lee, chief technology officer of security solutions company Eset Software, said many users are just too trusting when ... |
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1 Mar 2006
Denial of Servie (DoS)
A denial-of-service attack (also, DoS attack) is an attack on a computer system or network that causes a loss of service to users, typically the loss of network connectivity and services by ... |
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1 Feb 2006
Kama Sutra quiet so far
AUSTRALIAN IT security professionals have so far reported few problems from the so-called Kama Sutra worm, which was due to begin overwriting files on infected PCs today.
Anti-virus company Trend Micro said it had recorded around 30,000 infections worldwide by mid-afternoon, with 200 recorded in ... |
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31 Jan 2006
Wireless Security Still in its Infancy
More Americans than ever are using mobile technology, from sophisticated cell phones to hand-held personal digital assistants to laptop computers. And millions of people now do their banking online. But the convergence of these trends raises a key question: Is your money safe in the wireless ... |
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31 Jan 2006
Wireless hacker threat
Windows security is once again in the spotlight, this time with a vulnerability in wireless laptop software stealing some of the limelight at an annual US hacker conference called ShmooCon.
The two-day convention held in Washington DC aims to tap into the collective expertise of hackers and ... |
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31 Dec 2005
Rising Security Threats
THREATS to enterprise information systems will continue to be more allusive next year, using more sophisticated and covert techniques. These techniques include blended social engineering and technical subterfuge attacks, automated systems based on Trojaning schemes, session hijacking systems, ... |
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15 Dec 2005
On Dasher! New malware targets Microsoft users
'Tis the season for a new worm targeting Windows
Just in time for the holidays, a worm called Dasher has hit the Internet. The malicious software, which primarily targets Windows 2000 systems, is one of three new attacks targeting Microsoft Corp.'s software that has emerged in the last 24 hours. Two other recently posted attacks can crash or gum ... |
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16 Nov 2005
Deloitte: Digital convergence is finally here
Almost a decade after its false dawn in the days of the dotcom boom, digital convergence ? the merging of voice, video and data ? is finally becoming reality, shifting the balance of power between current technologies and altering the basis of competition said a global technology consultant. ... |
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4 Nov 2005
It's unofficial: Microsoft bets business on Linux
The next time Bill Gates sends an e-mail through Microsoft's shiny new Wireless LAN it will be passed through a behind-the-scenes Linux-based network appliance.
Earlier this year Microsoft and Aruba Networks jointly announced the two companies will work to replace Microsoft's existing Cisco ... |
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30 Nov -0001
Forget Cables and Wireless Connections and LANs and WANs, here's HANs
A Japanese telecommunications company - Nippon Telegraph and Telephone (NTT) - has developed a technology that doesn't use cables or even radio waves to communicate; instead it uses the human body as a high-speed network connection. According to NTT, it is hoping to commercialise the technology in ... |
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30 Nov -0001
Blue uniform hackers
THERE there is money, there is organised crime or the mob. Just like bees to a honey pot, money is such a great motivator for criminal innovation.
Even the film industries are not safe. In Hollywood, for example, mobsters tried to squeeze millions from macho martial arts action star Steven ... |
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