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I've been watching as a number of security expert's call for the companies to replace Internet Explorer (IE) and the follow-up pieces that state, with the implication that the companies must be stupid, that they aren't following that advice. I think this reflects more on how far removed many of these experts are from IT management than it does anything else, but, given the coverage, I figured it was time to write a security primer.
Since wireless phones have become so inexpensive and easy to use, their use is rapidly rising in corporations. While the phones can deliver alluring productivity benefits, they also can present a new security risk: Corporate assets, such as new products, manufacturing floor layouts, and business plans, are now susceptible to attack. As a result, c...
The entertainment industry, with the Big Five record labels and majormovie studios to the fore, is one of the wealthiest corporate sectors inthe world. And yet it's in deep trouble, or so it says, the latestcomplaints emanating from Big Music spokesman Mitch Bainwol in a letterto the US Senate demanding that the Hollywood-inspired INDUCE Act on copyright infringement be adopted.
Inflationary pressures appeared to ease in June over the preceding month, with the Labor Department today reporting that consumer prices rose a modest 0.3 percent, half the rate of May The core inflation rate, which ignores fuel and food costs, rose only 0.1 percent in June, half what analysts had expected and again half the jump it took in May. Th...
Tim Berners-Lee, the inventor of the World Wide Web and Director of the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) was dubbed a Knight Commander, Order of the British Empire by Queen Elizabeth II during an investiture in London today. The rank of Knight Commander is the second most senior rank of the Order of the British Empire, one of the Orders of Chivalry ...
A federal judge in Nevada has granted AutoZone's request to put SCO Group's copyright infringement case over the auto parts retailer's switch from Unix to Linux on hold. The auto parts retailer had asked the federal court in Nevada to stay the case until SCO's other, related lawsuits against IBM and Novell are finished, as well asRed Hat's suit ag...
Those who get caught stealing personal identity information to committheft or fraud -- whether by sifting through trash or posting bogus Websites on the Internet to trick users into divulging data -- will befacing more time in jail thanks to a new federal law The Identity Theft Penalty Enhancement Act (ITPEA), signed by President Bush this week, ad...
IBM today said net income rose nearly 17 percent in the second quarter as server sales boosted both its bottom line and its profits. The tech giant also reassured nervous investors by affirming its outlook for the rest of the year and by saying that business conditions continue to improve.
In an effort to tailor their various instant messaging (IM) services for better use by enterprise and remove the interoperability issues that have precluded a bigger business embrace of the real-time communication, Microsoft, America Online and Yahoo announced connectivity among the competing services using Microsoft's Live Communications Server 2005 (LCS)...
Dell President and COO Kevin Rollins moved up to the PC company's top spot today when he took over the CEO reins from company founder Michael Dell The move was described as more a change of title than duties and is not expected to be followed by significant strategy changes, the world's largest PC maker said in a statement....
Companies looking at new CRM, order capture and even distributed order-management systems tend to give too much credibility to the vendors outside their company first, dismissing their own internal resources. What's troubling about this is that the answers to their toughest questions may very well be right in their departments, divisions, even the...
Former Red Hat and Cygnus Solutions executives Kim Knuttila and Eric Troan announced yesterday that they had formed Specifix, an open-source company producing Linux solutions The new company brings together other executives and experts from the Linux and GNU open-source development tools communities....
A new consortium called the Trusted Electronic Communications Forum (TECF) has brought together top companies in the financial and technology industries to tackle phishing and spoofing attacks aimed at stealing personal information Phishing and spoofing are a kind of bait-and-switch often used for identity theft. Gartner vice president and research...
At this perplexing time in the evolution of mankind, when morality is under extreme magnification, it will be a welcome relief today to be able to escape those dilemmas for a future one -- that being robots who kill Being the underlying theme of the potential summer blockbuster movie, "I, Robot," the script, based on Isaac Asimov's story and starri...
In an effort to tailor their various instant messaging (IM) services for better use by enterprise and remove the interoperability issues that have precluded a bigger business embrace of the real-time communication, Microsoft, America Online and Yahoo today announced connectivity among the competing services using Microsoft's Live Communications Server 2005 (LCS)...
Microsoft, America Online and Yahoo today announced they will collaborate to enable connectivity between Microsoft Office Live Communications Server 2005 and the AOL, MSN and Yahoo instant messaging (IM) networks "This agreement represents the dawn of the next era for instant messaging, which will unleash the true potential of real-time communicati...
With facilities in 25 states and the District of Columbia, Beverly Enterprises is among the largest providers of eldercare in the U.S. Through its Beverly Healthcare division, it provides 367 skilled nursing homes and 19 assisted living facilities. Ninety of its facilities have Alzheimer's Disease care units The traditional model where patients fin...
Red Hat has put its investors through a roller-coaster ride this summer, and the ride just took a major drop in recent days, as bad news hit the markets. The company announced that it would be restating its results due to new accounting policies, and also told analysts that the SEC had launched an inquiry into the company for unspecified reasons. ...
Aura, a NASA mission dedicated to the health of Earth's atmosphere, successfully launched today at 3:01:59 a.m. Pacific Time from the Western Range of Vandenberg Air Force Base, aboard a Boeing Delta II rocket. Spacecraft separation occurred at 4:06 a.m. Pacific Time, inserting Aura into a 438-mile (705-kilometer) orbit.
In an apparent move to avoid the mistakes made by the recording industry in managing digital forms of its intellectual property, two movie studios have cut a deal with several major technology companies -- including Microsoft and IBM -- to develop a scheme that will allow limited copying ofnext-generation DVDs "They're trying to be wiser than the r...
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