Jim Rapoza

Oh, well-just another day in the technology grind. I think I’ll fire up my Gmail account to see if I have any important e-mails in there. One thing I’m pretty sure about is that there will be more spam and phishing e-mails. Gmail was pretty good about catching these things, but lately I’ve been getting […]

Calling people on your cell phone can often be a hit or miss proposition. If someone isn’t in your address book or contacts and you don’t have their number, finding it while out on the street can be a chore. But what if you could access your social networks, e-mails and even enterprise systems like […]

eWEEK Picks the Best of DEMOfall 2009 HP SkyRoom HP’s SkyRoom is a Windows desktop video conferencing solution that displayed some impressive capabilities for handling multiple participants and supporting high-level collaboration and application sharing during the conferencing session. Fuze Box Fuze Meeting Fuze Box’s Fuze Meeting provides a rich collaboration interface that treats mobile devices […]

It’s day two of DEMOfall and the somewhat strange back-and-forth mix of enterprise, consumer and unusual tech products continues. The morning session kicked off with a group of young kids (including at least one who is still at Milton High School in Massachusetts) showing off Web on Weels (not Wheels), an application that makes it […]

Cortera is an online service that provides credit information on businesses large and small but then combines it with ratings from a community of small business owners, who provide feedback both good and bad on these businesses. This makes it possible for a small business to know which companies are likely to be good business […]

Turning a GPS-enabled smartphone into a navigation system isn’t really that new. But turning it into a crowd-sourced system for not only getting directions but also detecting traffic problems and even mapping new roads is a pretty interesting idea. At DEMOfall 2009 I had the chance to talk to Waze CEO Noam Bardin about his […]

The second half of Day One at DEMOfall 2009 saw a weird mix of security products (for both business and consumers), products designed around either getting paid or paying someone, and a couple of products that didn’t seem to fit any other category at DEMOfall. The afternoon session started out with a product of probably […]

DEMOfall, which launched the morning of Sept. 22 in San Diego, is the final Demo for longtime Executive Producer Chris Shipley. During Shipley’s opening remarks, replacement Matt Marshall jumped in to interrupt a couple of times, seemingly playing Kanye West to Shipley’s Taylor Swift. This was somewhat amusing but, as always, the most important thing […]

LABS GALLERY: SocialPET Lets Businesses Phish Their Own Employees to Test Security Smarts by Jim Rapoza Setup To get started with SocialPET, you add the names and e-mails of the users who will receive the test phishing e-mail and create a false e-mail to send the message from. Templates SocialPET includes a number of templates […]

When it comes to securing a company’s infrastructure, there are many different problems to deal with-from unpatched servers to poorly secured networking hardware to security applications that don’t address all potential threats. But probably the biggest problem is the company’s employees. Despite training and common awareness of viruses, worms, spam and phishing e-mails after years […]