Monthly Archives: August 2011
Force 10 Buy Fits With Dell’s Open, Integrated Approach: Dell Server Chief
Dell's acquisition of networking vendor Force 10 Networks will be a boon for all parts of the company's efforts to build out its data...
Facebook Joins Google, Mozilla, Barracuda in Paying Bug Bounties
Facebook has joined the handful of companies who pay bug bounties to researchers who discover vulnerabilities.Most Website flaws, such as cross-site scripting, cross-site request...
Android Malware Affected Up to 1M Users in 2011
Google (NASDAQ:GOOG) Android smartphone owners have plenty to be wary of on the security front, according to a new report from Lookout Mobile Security.Android...
Neon, TurboHercules, T3 Drop EU Complaints Against IBM
Three companies that had accused IBM of anticompetitive behavior in its mainframe business are dropping the complaints they had filed with the European Union.According...
Security Tips to Not Get Hacked at Black Hat
Writing about information security, I tend to be very paranoid. This is a good thing as it means I am creating complicated passwords, regularly...
BMC Service Catalog Enforces Workload Location
I'm a little bummed that I missed the April 2011 release of the latest version of BMC Software's Service Catalog. Refined in April was...
Pwnie Awards Nominees in 2011 Include Sony, Anonymous, LulzSec, WikiLeaks
Security professionals heading to Black Hat can look forward to the Pwnie Awards, the hacker version of the Academy Awards, this week.The winners of...
Samsung Acquires New-Gen Memory Maker Grandis
Samsung has fortified its research and development arm in the increasingly competitive battle for market share in the solid-state memory sector.Samsung Electronics Co. on...
Apple iCloud Beta Website Now Live
Apple's iCloud.com beta Website is now live, kicking off Cupertino's Great Cloud Push of 2011.At this time, the Website is only accessible to a...
Google Can’t Get Android Memo Sealed in Oracle Case
Google (NASDAQ:GOOG) failed to have sealed an email that suggested the company should ink a licensing agreement to safely use Oracle's (NASDAQ:ORCL) Java software...