Monthly Archives: April 2012
Google Staff Knew Street View Cars Were Collecting Private Data: FCC
Google officials in the past admitted that for several years, their Street View cars had collected personal data from WiFi networks, but have insisted...
Comdex: Attendance Down, Security Up
Recently, the Computer Event Marketing Association (CEMA) took an informal poll of its 600 members--event management and marketing professionals who frequent IT industry trade...
Microsoft Preps 4 Security Bulletins for Patch Tuesday
Microsoft has four security bulletins slated for February's Patch Tuesday release.According to Microsoft's advance notification, all four bulletins cover remote code execution vulnerabilities. Two...
Microsoft Preps 11 Security Bulletins for Patch Tuesday
Microsoft is planning to release 11 security bulletins Oct. 14 on Patch Tuesday.Four of the bulletins are rated "critical" and cover vulnerabilities that can...
Microsoft Invests $300M in Barnes and Noble, Settles Patent Flap
Microsoft and Barnes & Noble have entered into an agreement by which Microsoft will invest $300 million in Barnes & Nobles new digital and...
OpenMAMA Project Delivers First Release of Middleware Messaging API
The Linux Foundations Linux Foundation Labs has announced the availability of OpenMAMA 2.1, the open-source Middleware Agnostic Messaging API and the first neutral standard...
Return of the Web Mob
Ken Dunham, you could say, spends his life peeking at the bowels of the Internet.
As director of the Rapid Response Team at VeriSign-owned iDefense,...
HDS Unifies Block, File, Object Storage Into Single Pool
A big 2012 trend among Tier 1 data center system providers is the convergence of more and more functionality into fewer and smaller containers....
Social Engineering for Security
Mogull: Social engineering is the manipulation of people rather than electronic systems in a security attack. The reality of it is that we all...
A Watchful Assistant Raises Privacy Concerns
It is always on, passively listening. The Personal Awareness Assistant prototype from consulting firm Accenture has a speech recognition engine, two small microphones, a...