Monthly Archives: October 2014
Visual Basic Rises Again as a Document Malware Scripting Language
In July 1995, a proof-of-concept macro virus, fittingly known as "Concept," started infecting Microsoft Word documents using a Visual Basic script to copy itself...
Google Threatened With $100 Million Lawsuit Over Hacked Celebrity Pictures
Google is being threatened with a potential lawsuit of up to $100 million over alleged privacy violations related to the recent Apple iCloud celebrity...
Under FCC Pressure, Verizon Says ‘No’ to Throttling, After All
Verizon has given up on its plans to throttle back data speeds on its 4G Long Term Evolution (LTE) network for customers who are...
UK ‘Running Out of Phone Numbers’: Ofcom
By Michael MooreIndustry regulator Ofcom has introduced new guidelines surrounding how people make local calls as it attempts to deal with the fact that...
JPMorgan Data Breach Impacted 76 Million Households
JPMorgan Chase today revealed details of a cyber-attack that was first reported in August. In an 8-K U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) filing,...
Symantec’s Newest NetBackup Appliance Adds Deduplication
Symantec on Oct. 2 introduced a new appliance form factor for one software product that pays most of the company bills: NetBackup.The NetBackup 5330...
FCC Chairman Proposes a 5G Wireless Study
Tom Wheeler, the chairman of the Federal Communications Commission, is looking to the future of wireless communications and wonders whether the existing high-band spectrum...
Sprint and Verizon Join AT&T’s Double Data War for Customers
Sprint and Verizon Wireless have bumped up their own free data salvos for customers now that AT&T began a recent promotion to double some...
Pulse Secure Acquires BYOD Specialist MobileSpaces
Access and mobile security solutions provider Pulse Secure announced that it has acquired MobileSpaces, a provider of mobile security for application-centric businesses.The acquisition represents...
Cloud Analytics Provider GoodData Gets $25.7M Funding
GoodData, riding a wave of interest in the potential of cloud-based big data analytics services, revealed Oct. 2 that it has taken a $25.7...