Monthly Archives: July 2008
Security Vendors Embrace Application Whitelisting
Corporate IT security managers are confronting the reality that the sheer volume of both malicious and unmalicious software programs is growing explosively, prompting them...
Amazon Opens Mechanical Turk Crowdsourcing for Noncoders
Amazon Web Services, the Amazon.com unit that popularized Internet-based computing with its Elastic Compute Cloud and Simple Storage Service offerings, is making its application...
In Search of the Best Web Security Solutions
Security companies have been getting more creative with offerings designed to shore up the Web browser by introducing a variety of solutions for the...
Big Names Still Recording Major Breaches
A lot of people are writing up IBM's latest X-Force Threat Insight report, as the paper presents a stark portrait of continued malware acceleration,...
Game Over for Neosploit?
Researchers at RSA's FraudAction Research Lab are reporting that the group behind the Neosploit malware infection tool kit may have thrown in the towel,...
Midori Unleashed: The Goods on the Future of Windows
Microsoft has a post-Windows operating system in the works, and it is code-named Midori, sources say. What's in it for developers? David Worthington over...
HP, Intel, Yahoo Join Google, IBM in the Cloud
Similar to the joint cloud computing partnership between Google and IBM, HP, Intel and Yahoo are creating open source cloud computing test beds to...
Agami Systems Shuts Its Doors, Suspends Business
The Station received a tip this morning from a reader that Sunnyvale, Calif.-based storage startup Agami Systems has decided to suspend its operations.Five-year-old Agami...
Cuil Search Needs Time, Users to Fight Google
Yesterday I had a devil of a time accessing new search engine Cuil from my laptop in a Manhattan office.I assure you the location...
Oracle Sounds Alert Over Unpatched WebLogic Server Flaw
Oracle officials are issuing a red alert regarding a flaw affecting the Apache plug-in for Oracle WebLogic after exploit codes for the vulnerability were...