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2008-11-21
Laptop thefts are a huge problem for individuals and companies of every size. Personal and corporate information are at risk when they're stored on devices that can "pick up and walk away" easily. This video discusses tools that help prevent laptop theft and that minimize the damage in case a mobile machine is stolen.
2008-10-31
Web 2.0 comes with many security concerns. Social-networking sites and Web application platforms invite malware threats that can compromise individual PCs, infiltrate networks, and steal corporate and personal information.
Intellectual property is also at risk, with employees able to share more freely and distribute content via instant messages, Webmail, and social networks. This video explores the risks and discusses potential solutions.
2008-10-29
On Oct. 27, Microsoft debuted Windows 7 during Professional Developer Conference 2008. Microsoft Watch editor Joe Wilcox sat down with Debby Fry Wilson, senior director for Windows Product Management about the forthcoming operating system. Wilson discusses elements of the new user interface and what services integration means to end users and developers.
2008-10-08
You've diligently educated your users, patched your systems, and installed anti-virus products on your endpoints‹but are those measures enough? Application whitelisting is a different approach to the problem of securing Windows clients that's has been around for a while now, but has gained new currency over the past several months. Application whitelisting, which contrasts with the blacklisting approach embodied by typical anti-virus products, involves barring all but approved executables from running on a given machine. eWEEK Labs considers these claims, and the products that implement them.
2008-09-26
Join Brian Prince as he gets the low down about hacking Oracle Application Express (APEX) and ways developers can minimize risk. At Oracle OpenWorld, Prince caught up with Anton Nielsen of C2 Consulting. Nielsen, who gave a presentation called 'How to Hack an Oracle Application Express Application' discusses session management and the importance of secure development
2008-09-22
Details regarding the hacked yahoo account of Republican Vice presidential nominee, Sarah Palin have emerged. Also, why Palin is now being investigated in Alaska for alleged abuse of power while governor of the state; Intel has come up with the ideal solution to reducing energy consumption in the data center. It wont cost you a penny and the savings are substantial. Learn what they did and how you could apply it to your data center; Microsoft may have quickly ended their campaign with Jerry Seinfeld‹or did they? Video blogger Ed Cone tells us why this was their most successful advertising campaign in over a decade: And finally, everyone get your video cameras ready! MIT¹s X Prize Lab has announced its ³What¹s Your Crazy Green Idea² contest. Contestants should present their idea via YouTube in a video no longer than two minutes that proposes a specific green solution that would benefit humanity. The prize: $25 thousand dollars. We have all the details on how to enter.
2008-09-05
Software in standalone boxes, passwords and a belt full of personal devices will disappear over the next five years. In this episode of Three Things, Eric Lundquist explains why you will no longer buy standalone software from retail stores, why passwords are a poor substitute for security and geeks will no longer be identified by lots of devices hanging from a belt.
2008-09-03
Intel Developers Forum happens just once a year here in the U.S. Spanning over 3-days, attendees piled in the Moscone center in San Francisco to check out everything from next generation processor technologies to the newest advances in storage and virtualization. Attendees were also treated to numerous training and information sessions, including topics on blu-ray disk platform development, energy-efficient platforms, extending battery life of mobile PCs using Intel¹s solid state drive solutions and network data protection in the data center. The true eye-catcher, however, at this year¹s conference was Intel¹s 2008 Ultimate Geek Challenge. Contestants were put to the test in three rounds, with the winner walking away with the title Ultimate Geek 2008, as well as winning a brand new Smart Passion Coupe.
2008-08-29
What’s new in laptops? From the looks of it not much. But advances in storage, security, battery-life and power consumption are changing the way we use laptops at a blazing pace. SSDs (Solid State Drives) are replacing HDD (Hard Disk Drives) leading to better performance and power consumption; the latest laptops come equipped with data back up and recovery, encryption to protect any data still on the hard drive and even remote security settings to wipe the hard drive; and the five- and six-hour battery will come from the chips and operating systems that run the laptop as well as the screen displays and the drives that use better power consumption.
2008-08-20
Computer security is much in the news of late. What with identity theft, new hacking techniques, credit card information theft and even new ways to digitally fake a subway pass, technology pros need some help in defending their systems. This segment provides three quick tips for improving computer security in your company.
2008-08-15
Voice-Over IP: Your vendor may be leaving you vulnerable to high financial risks and you may not even know it. eWEEK correspondent Victor R. Garza sits down with VOIP hacking specialist and professor, The Grugq, at this year’s BlackHat conference in Las Vegas. The Grugq exposes results of his penetration testing and lets you in on which VOIP vendors are putting your company at the most risk of attack from hackers and what you can do to prevent it from ever happening to you.
2008-08-11
IBM is building a $360 million data center full of green technology out of an old warehouse in Raleigh, N.C., to serve the cloud computing demands of its customers. IBM’s data center in Raleigh, N.C. and a sister data center in Tokyo will linked with IBM’s seven other cloud centers around the world to sell cloud services, also called utility computing and Software-as-a-Service or SaaS. As part of its Big Green initiative, IBM will recycle material from the existing facility to create the new cloud center and will use virtualization technology to run more applications on each server and reduce the amount of electricity needed; Delta Air Lines announced last week it will rollout broadband Wi-Fi access across its entire domestic fleet by Summer 2009.
Delta plans to outfit more than 330 aircraft with WiFi access beginning with the 133 MD88s and MD90s in its fleet. All of its Boeing 737s, 757s and 767-300s should have the service by mid-2009; Federal law enforcement agencies are calling the largest hacking and identity theft caper to date. The U.S. Attorneys Office in Boston last week charged 11 people with who allegedly hacked the network at TJX, which owns the TJ Maxx and Marshalls department store chains, and stole millions of customer credit and debit card numbers from the TJX database; and PNC Bank says the Gen Y crowd can’t manage their own money. The bank rolled out “Virtual Wallet” a personal finance application tied into it’s own accounts for account holder born between 1980 and 1994, the Gen Y set.
2008-06-30
When it comes to protecting the data on a laptop’s hard disk drive, there’s more to consider than encryption or anti-virus security. The hard disk drive is one of the most fragile parts of a notebook, and as more users go mobile, the likelihood of a damaged drive, and lost data, increases. If your users are tossing laptops around like cell phones, here's some technologies from HP, Toshiba, Dell, Apple and others will help in your next purchasing decision.
2008-06-09
There's more than just basketball going on between the Boston Celtics and the Los Angeles Lakers. The NBA has transformed the TD Banknorth Garden into a major data center, cranking out statistics and video to a worldwide audience. Step behind the scenes to find out how the NBA scores a slam dunk with technology.
2008-06-03
The Berkman Center for Internet and Society at Harvard University recently held its 10th anniversary conference, looking at the issues of the Internet today and in the future. eWeek Chief Technology Analyst Jim Rapoza interviewed several speakers about their thoughts. Phillip Hallam-Baker, author of the dotCrime Manifesto, says stability the missing ingredient in the Internet in the fight against Internet crime; Kathy Higgins, Educational Technologies, Dept. of Education, N.H., sees a shift to more use of social networking and community voices gaining traction; and Dr. Jim Morris if Carnegie Mellon University comments on the battlegrounds forming for the soul of the Internet.
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The SRP feature in Microsoft Windows doesn't offer the same granularity of control or change management capabilities as whitelisting options from third-party vendors, but there also are no extra licensing costs and it works well with Windows clients and servers.
Customization and complexity go hand-in-hand with SkyRecon’s new StormShield endpoint protection solution. The product can be difficult to set up, but once rolling, SkyRecon’s offering is an impressive security tool.
The Check Point VPN-1 VE is designed to protect resources in VMware ESX and ESXi environments. While the VPN-1 VE does reduce security risk in these deployments, IT administrtors will need some consulting help or staff with knowledge of both VMware ESX and security to take full advantage of the product.
CA HIPS is a serviceable application whitelisting tool, particularly for businesses already using other CA security products. However, time-consuming challenges, such as identifying software on Windows PCs, make it more difficult to use than competing software.
With Parity 4.1, Bit9 offers an application whitelisting product that could challenge conventional anti-virus security tools. Bit9 Parity 4.1 joins other app whitelisting security tools from such vendors as CA, CoreTrace and Lumension.
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