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 8, 2010 by Valerie Helmbreck
In its glory days, nobody ever thought eBay would hit a slump — especially not in a recession when everybody needs a good deal or wants to unload stuff and raise cash. But eBay did, slump that is, in recent months. And with profits sinking and its market share shrinking, the company’s recasting its online presence: It’s going green.
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Tags: Ebay, green, Greenpeace, marketing, technology
March 1, 2010 by Valerie Helmbreck
Does playing a violent video game really make players more prone to be violent in real life? That’s a question that’s been batted about (no pun intended) for decades, since the first electronic game systems hit the market. The answer?
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Tags: Craig Anderson, Iowa State University, study, Video games, violence
February 22, 2010 by Valerie Helmbreck
A massive Nielsen survey has asked consumers the burning question many Web site content providers are dying to hear the answer to: Will you pay for the news and entertainment you now get online for free?
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Tags: consumers, content, Nielsen, pay, survey
February 15, 2010 by Valerie Helmbreck
Businesses on the East Coast got a taste of what a small natural disaster can do to productivity and communication when back-to-back blizzards struck. The heroes of the week — besides road crews and power company employees? Companies with telecommuting programs.
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Tags: blizzard, calculator, program, remote, telecommuting, Telework Research Network, workers
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 1, 2010 by Valerie Helmbreck
Now here’s what I call customer service gone wild: A Texas bank has decided to sue one of its commercial customers that was robbed by a gang of international cyberthieves.
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Tags: cybertheives, Hillary Machinery Inc., lawsuit, PlainsCapital Bank, security, Texas
January 25, 2010 by Valerie Helmbreck
Forget those contentious TV ads where Apple and Microsoft mock each other’s operating systems. Think instead of unlikely marriages like Mary Matalin and James Carville, or Bill and Hillary Clinton. Think Microsoft and Apple.
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Tags: Apple, Google, iphone, iTouch, Microsoft, search engine
January 18, 2010 by Valerie Helmbreck
Hackers are getting past some of the toughest tactics used in online banking security, say the analysts at Gartner.
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Tags: Gartner, malware, online banking, security, threats
January 11, 2010 by Valerie Helmbreck
The latest IT salary survey holds a valuable lesson for all tech employees: It’s all in the name.
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Tags: average, CIO, compensation, range, salary, survey
