Monthly Archives: February 2009
How to Deliver High-Performing, Business-Critical Web Applications
In the rapidly growing Web application services environment, business transactions are well traveled. They are carried over diverse and interconnected infrastructures, through networks, application...
A Plan to Stop Fast Flux Networks Begins to Form
Even with all the mistakes that users make and all the effort put up by criminals, you might wonder how the networks of illicit...
Keeping an Eye on Adobe Flash Security Means Catching Common Programming Errors
With hackers increasingly targeting Web 2.0 sites, knowing how to develop secure Adobe Flash applications can be a difference maker when it comes to...
So Long McColo Lows, Oh Well
Well, here's what we learned from the McColo experiment that was so cleverly pulled together by Washington Post blogger Brian Krebs and some other...
Securing Social Networks, from Facebook to MySpace to LinkedIn
Security researchers Shawn Moyer and Nathan Hamiel are well-known for poking holes in myths surrounding security on social networking sites.Their presentation Feb. 7 at...
Malware Counts Bore Upward, Onward
You can't emphasize it enough when you see the numbers - we continue to be pelted with record amounts of malware code, forcing security...
Geeks.com Settles FTC Charges
Geeks.com agreed Feb. 5 to settle with the Federal Trade Commission charges stemming from a 2007 data breach at the online retailer of computer...
Digium Launches Switchvox SMB 4.0
Digium, the creator of open-source telephony software Asterisk, announced the release of the latest version of Switchvox SMB, an IP PBX designed for small-...
Microsoft Agrees to Additional Windows 7 UAC Change to Address Concerns
In response to user concerns, Microsoft has agreed to change the User Account Control feature in Windows 7 so it generates a prompt if...
NetApp Drops SMB Storage Appliance
Storage and data management company NetApp quietly discontinued StoreVault, its storage appliance aimed at small to medium-size businesses. The product first debuted in 2006,...