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 Microsoft Looks to 'Mitigate' Security Flaws With Updated Tool
By Stuart J. Johnston -
Published September 3, 2010
Microsoft says it is shipping the newest version of an administrator's tool that helps manage key mitigation parameters in order to help corporate customers stay safer. [more from www.esecurityplanet.com]
FCC Report Finds Subpar Broadband Speeds
By Kenneth Corbin -
Published September 3, 2010
New study released by the agency finds that just 44 percent of fixed connections meet the speed goal stipulated in the national broadband plan. Meanwhile, the agency postpones consideration of its controversial reclassification proposal. [more from itmanagement.earthweb.com]
IT Holding Back on Virtualizing Business-Critical Apps
By David Needle -
Published September 3, 2010
Performance issues edged security concerns, in a survey of VMworld attendees, as the primary reason for not virtualizing more key enterprise applications. [more from itmanagement.earthweb.com]
VMworld Storage Product Highlights: Round 3
By Kevin Komiega -
Published September 3, 2010
The third and final roundup of storage products announced at this week’s VMworld conference in San Francisco. [more from www.enterprisestorageforum.com]
Disk Storage is Bouncing Back, IDC says
Published September 3, 2010
Factory revenue for the second quarter grew 20.7 percent to $6.8 billion.
The Most Dangerous Jobs in Technology
Published September 3, 2010
Hint: Only one of them involves sitting at a desk all day.
New Malware Detects Browser, Shows Fake Warning Page
Published September 3, 2010
Microsoft is warning about a new type of attack that displays alerts that look just like the real thing.
Consumer Group Lampoons Google CEO Over Privacy Issues
Published September 3, 2010
A video playing on the giant Times Square screen portrays Eric Schmidt as a creepy ice cream man.
Apple Now Building 2M iPads Per Month to Meet Demand
Published September 3, 2010
The company has nearly doubled its monthly output of iPads, and it may ramp up to produce 3 million iPads per month soon.
VMworld Storage Product Highlights: Round 2
Published September 3, 2010
A roundup of the data protection, backup and recovery, business continuity and disaster recovery announcements made at this week’s VMworld conference. [more from www.enterprisestorageforum.com]
Intel Invests Heavily in Virtualization
By David Needle -
Published September 3, 2010
Attempting to constrain its titanic infrastructure costs, the tech titan has put its chips on virtualization. [more from itmanagement.earthweb.com]
Top 10 Takeaways from VMworld
By Drew Robb -
Published September 3, 2010
Enterprise Storage Forum visited VMworld this week. Here are the top 10 takeaways. Some are obvious and some are forecasts of where we might be headed. [more from www.enterprisestorageforum.com]
Bespin Becomes Mozilla Skywriter and Moves to GitHub
Published September 3, 2010
Mozilla Labs has renamed "Bespin" HTML5 cloud-based editor to Mozilla Skywriter and moved the source code repository to GitHub.
Microsoft: Android More Expensive
By Stuart J. Johnston -
Published September 3, 2010
With Windows Phone 7 due out soon, Microsoft is voicing its opinion about competing mobile products. [more from itmanagement.earthweb.com]
Ruby on Rails 3.0 Available Now
Published September 3, 2010
After more than 2 years of development, Ruby on Rails 3.0 is here.
Google Tosses Wave Over the Open Source Fence
Published September 3, 2010
Google has decided to open source the Google Wave code with "Wave in a Box" project.
Tech Comics: "Unfriending"
By Oliver Widder -
Published September 3, 2010
The process of ending a friendship is far more complicated than it once was. [more from itmanagement.earthweb.com]
UbiStor Partners for Email Archiving Solution
Published September 3, 2010
The company has partnered with Sonasoft to offer hosted email archiving solutions for SMBs.
Top 20 Android Security Apps
By Jeff Goldman -
Published September 3, 2010
The Android operating system’s support for multi-tasking enables a wide range of mobile security functionality to run in the background, including virus scanning and automated backups. [more from www.esecurityplanet.com]
KOM Announces OnBase Integration With KOMpliance
Published September 3, 2010
Hyland Software's OnBase storage solution is not fully integrated with KOMpliance data security.
Who is Next on Dell's List?
Published September 3, 2010
With Dell out of the bidding war for 3Par, industry insiders speculate on where the company will look next.
Review: Storage Networking with the Drobo FS
Published September 3, 2010
The five-drive bay Drobo FS NAS device offers Gigabit Ethernet for shared data access.
Apple Patches iTunes Security Vulnerabilities
By eSecurityPlanet Staff -
Published September 3, 2010
In addition to new social networking features and GUI improvements, iTunes 10 patches 13 known vulnerabilities. [more from www.esecurityplanet.com]
Heartland to Pay Discover $5 Million for Security Breach
By eSecurityPlanet Staff -
Published September 3, 2010
The payment processor has already agreed to pay $60 million to Visa, $3.6 million to American Express, and more than $41 million to MasterCard. [more from www.esecurityplanet.com]
Chrome Update Patches Security Flaws
By eSecurityPlanet Staff -
Published September 3, 2010
Google Chrome 6 repairs 14 security vulnerabilities. [more from www.esecurityplanet.com]
Symantec, Snoop Dogg Announce Cybercrime Rap Contest
By eSecurityPlanet Staff -
Published September 3, 2010
The creator of the best rap video on the subject of malware, hacking and botnets will win a trip to LA. [more from www.esecurityplanet.com]
Security Flaw Found in HP Printers
By eSecurityPlanet Staff -
Published September 3, 2010
Zscaler's Michael Sutton has discovered a vulnerability that could provide hackers with remote access to copies of scanned documents. [more from www.esecurityplanet.com]
Floridian Pleads Guilty to Identity Theft
By eSecurityPlanet Staff -
Published September 3, 2010
Juan Javier Cardenas emailed more than 1,500 stolen credit card numbers to co-conspirators between March and May of 2009. [more from www.esecurityplanet.com]
A Categorization Scheme for All Those Java I/O Stream Classes
By Gurunath Kalamadi -
Published September 2, 2010
Try this handy technique for categorizing the potentially overwhelming number of I/O stream classes in Java. [more from www.developer.com]
Twitter Retools App, Link Policies, Sparks Privacy Worries
By Kenneth Corbin -
Published September 2, 2010
Microblogging service alerts users to two changes to how third-party applications integrate with the site, raising privacy concerns in the process. [more from www.esecurityplanet.com]
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