Fahmida Y. Rashid

Secretary of State Hillary Clinton outlined a new Internet freedom policy that will guarantee dissidents and human rights activists access to the “world’s town square” while justifying recent United States actions on online security and privacy. Clinton said the United States considered “freedom to connect” a foreign policy priority and outlined challenges of defending a […]

IT administrators have the daunting task of defending enterprise databases from increasingly sophisticated and complex attacks, as hackers attempt to steal private and confidential data. Oracle’s latest tool understands SQL statements and can identify malicious ones. The database giant announced Oracle Database Firewall on Feb. 14 at the RSA Conference, in San Francisco. The firewall […]

While it initially looked like a rout, the humans clawed their way back during the first round of Jeopardy! and forced IBM’s supercomputer to tie for the lead. The first segment of the long-anticipated two-game Jeorpardy tournament between former Jeopardy! champions, Ken Jennings and Brad Rutter, and Watson aired on Feb. 14. Watson and Rutter […]

While storage costs continue to decline and storage capacities grow exponentially, companies can store every scrap of data created and received. There is a downside, as data volumes expand and spiral out of control to the point where there is no way to know what data is exposed and vulnerable. Identity Finder announced the latest […]

Qualys overhauled its managed-security service with open-source components and virtualization technologies to launch QualysGuard IT, its second-generation cloud-based managed-security service. Qualys will be demonstrating the new security and compliance platform during the RSA Conference in San Francisco from Feb. 14 to 18. The company spent two years completely re-architecting the security-as-a-service platform to run with […]

There are reports aplenty about technology driving a data explosion. University of Southern California researchers actually sat down and calculated that humans can store, communicate and compute about 295 exabytes of information, or about 404 billion CDs. In a study published Feb. 10 in Science Express, an electronic journal that provides select Science articles ahead […]

Internet security firm Comodo has added domain-name systems to its slate of managed services with the acquisition of DNS.com. With the acquisition, Comodo launched Comodo Authoritative DNS Service, a Domain Name System hosting service for enterprise customers, the company said Feb. 10. Discussion around the deal began earlier in the summer of 2010 and closed […]

Driven by strong demand for all kinds of mobile devices, the mobile memory market is poised for “stratospheric” growth in 2011, according to new research. Shipments of mobile DRAM (dynamic random access memory) are projected to grow 71 percent in 2011 and reach 2.9 billion gigabits, up from 1.7 billion gigabits in 2010, IHS iSuppli […]

Rackspace has acquired Anso Labs, a key contributor to the OpenStack cloud operating system. Despite gaining more governance control, Rackspace reiterated its commitment to the community-driven open-source project. The deal was originally leaked by a Citrix OpenStack community member in a blog post on Feb. 4, and Rackspace first confirmed the deal on Feb. 9, […]

The number of identity fraud victims dropped in 2010, but the average out-of-pocket losses have gone up, as thieves focus on new account fraud and stealing from people they know. Total card-related identity fraud in the United States dropped by a third from $56 billion in 2009 to $37 billion in 2010, according to the […]

Canonical and Autonomic Resources announced an integrated cloud computing platform for use in the federal government. The ARC-P-UEC consists of Ubuntu Enterprise Cloud and Dell Blade servers, Autonomic said. The combined offering allows “budget-restricted” government agencies to invest in large-scale and efficient cloud computing deployments, Autonomic said. “We are delighted that the benefits of open-source […]

Lancope updated its StealthWatch network behavioral analysis platform with application awareness and visualization tools to help IT managers detect and address network problems. The new StealthWatch platform can analyze up to 1.5 million flows per second, according to Lancope. It features granular application awareness, flexible grouping of network assets and relational mapping for network visualization, […]