Monthly Archives: September 2007
Easy 2-Factor Authentication You Can Afford
Ask any security guru. Whats makes for better security, two-factor authentication or the typical one-step username/password combination?Even Homer "Burns Nuclear IT Assistant" Simpson would...
Rackable to Virtualize on VMware
Rackable Systems, which makes a number of high-density storage servers and other products for large data centers, announced it will run VMware Virtual Infrastructure...
No-Defense Department
No-Defense Department">On July 18, Sunbelt Software came across a SQL command passed as a query within a URL belonging to an arm of a...
Word of Mouth: Un-Resign
Days after announcing his Sept. 30 resignation, news spread that Sen. Larry Craig, R-Idaho, was reconsidering his decision after his arrest in a Minnesota...
Free 2-Factor Authentication Is Calling
Pretty much everyone in the security world agrees that two-factor authentication is the way to go when it comes to protecting access to corporate...
iPhone Rebate!
In what has to be one of the most surprising announcements I've ever heard, Steve Jobs posted an open letter on the Apple Web...
Unsettled Workers on This Side of the H-1B Fence
The last several bits of H-1B news that have trickled across the wire have seemed, at least on the surface, to be good things...
Fiscal Worries Shake IT Confidence
Though bad news was slightly offset by an increase in expected hiring, the outlook for IT professionals on their job market and personal finances...
NEC Claims First Multi-Frequency, Multi-Protocol RFID Device
When NEC issued its statement in Tokyo Sept. 6 that it developed the worlds first RFID device that can read and write tag data...
Report: Self-Checkout Usage Soared 24 Percent Last Year
Consumers spent more than $137 billion in retail self-checkout in 2006, with increased self-checkout use in do-it-yourself stores, supercenters and warehouse clubs mostly responsible,...