March 15, 2010 by Valerie Helmbreck
Interested in hanging onto your IT job? For a lesson in how to lose it, consider the plight of Pennsylvania’s Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) who got canned after four years on the job for allegedly speaking in a public forum about a security breach of the state’s online drivers’ test scheduling system.
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Tags: chief information security officer, firing, Pennsylvania Department of Transportation, Robert Maley
March 4, 2010 by Valerie Helmbreck
Employers with the urge to listen in on workers’ phone calls, take heart: A city that maintained an automated system for recording workplace phone calls isn’t liable for violating its employees’ civil rights.
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Tags: court decision, phone calls, Providence, recording, RI
March 2, 2010 by Valerie Helmbreck
There’s a new report out warning that hackers have become “industrialized” and represent an ever increasing threat to people, organizations and Government.
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Tags: botnets, cybercriminal, hackers, Imperva, industrialized, study
March 1, 2010 by Sam Narisi
March 1, 2010 by Sam Narisi
British Twitter users have been witness to an attack on the site that counts some high profile folks as its victims.
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Tags: phishing attack, Twitter
February 9, 2010 by Valerie Helmbreck
The folks over at TechCrunch are reporting that the Chinese government is now blocking the popular tech site — and they think they know why. My question: How come the government in Beijing doesn’t see me as a threat, too?
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Tags: block, China, TechCrunch, Tianament Square
February 8, 2010 by Valerie Helmbreck
How much pressure does it take to get Chinese officials to crack down on would-be cyber-criminals? Plenty, but there’s been modest movement recently with the shuttering of an alleged hacker training operation.
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February 5, 2010 by Valerie Helmbreck
Google’s announced the end of support for some of the creaky old Web browsers out there. Among them: Microsoft’s Internet Explorer 6 (IE).
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Tags: gmail, Google, Internet Explorer 6, Microsoft
February 1, 2010 by Valerie Helmbreck
Those pesky browser bugs should be feeling the heat of Google’s latest attempt to catch them in their Chrome browser. Now, researchers who find the bugs can collect a reward.
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Tags: bounty, bugs, Chrome, Chromium, Google, Mozilla
January 26, 2010 by Valerie Helmbreck
That much-touted marketing tool called “buzz” doesn’t seem to have helped cloud providers get businesses to adopt the technology as their storage solution.
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Tags: adoption, cloud computing, Forrester Research, storage
