IT Blog At the Usenix Security Symposium in Boston Thursday morning, researcher Guofei Gu from the Georgia Institute of Technology unveiled a new application IT security pros can use to blunt the threat of bot infections. BotHunter is outlined in a paper Gu wrote with fellow Georgia Tech researcher Wenke L...
Information Security Threats, Security Management IT Blog It's like you're always stuck in second gear, Well, it hasn't been your day, your week, your month, or even your year. ~Rembrandts, I'll Be There For You (Friends theme song) RIM has been having a no good, terrible, very bad week, but it's just par for the course for the smart phone company that ...
IT Blog Pedram Amini, head of TippingPoint's security research group, co-wrote the recently-released book, "Fuzzing: Brute Force Vulnerability Discovery," and recently unveiled the new Sulley fuzzing framework. In this conversation, he talks about the book and explains how the Sulley framework will take...
IT Blog In one my post I was talking about the latest sensation Cisco revealed, yeah it's mi, I think no better than this video will enrich your excitement about the building of mi, the engineers behind this product share their excitement. [kml_flashembed movie="http://www.youtube.com/v/HyELdRKwwHA" wi...
Cisco Systems, Cisco TelePresence, ūmi IT Blog Microsoft is continuing its Research to come out with some interesting touch screen devices, first it was a coffee table, then the wall and now they are coming up with the Sphere. According to Gizmode the latest spherical mutli touch surface device, (still in concept stage) is going to unveil Micros...
Microsoft, Touch Screen, Latest Trends IT Blog Felix "FX" Lindner, lead security researcher at Germany-based Recurity Labs, talks about a new Mozilla Firefox tool he developed that cleans SWF files making it difficult for attackers to target Flash vulnerabilities. Lindner plans to unveil the tool at Black Hat 2010 in Las Vegas. In this interview...
IT Blog Ingram Micro can now sell IBM's Smart Cubes, making it the first broadline distributor to lay claim to these appliance-like devices for SMBs. The Smart Cubes bundle IBM hardware, OS and management software along with applications for specific customer types. IBM Business partners can furthter custo...
IT channel products and technologies, Barbara Darrow, IBM IT Blog Security researcher Matt Wood of HP talks about a new browser-based darknet he co-developed called Veiled. Also, Pete Lindstrom of Spire Security on TJX's latest data breach news.
IT Blog Here's some good news for those of you who like all these "month-of" flaw disclosure projects: There's a new one that focuses on ActiveX vulnerabilities. Of course, this is bad news for those who believe such projects do nothing but generate publicity for researchers and lead to more attacks. On t...
IT Blog A lot of security pros have pondered the security complexities introduced into an environment that uses virtualization software. Researchers have pounced. Theyve been looking under the hatch and we anticipate some interesting reports on the issue of security vulnerabilities associated with virtua...
IT Blog After a not-so-good year, Research in Motion, it seems, has come to a halt. Tuesday's San Francisco unveiling of BlackBerry's "next generation platform" is being called "little more than a rebranding" by the Times' Ian Austen. What was supposed to be an appetizing display for developers turned into ...
IT Blog Over the past5 years. since the publication of my 2005 book The PC Magazine Guide to Fighting Spyware, Viruses, and Malware, I've been following the rise and fall of numerous anti-virus and anti-spyware software packages with great interest and attention. In that period I've worked with numerous s...
anti-malware, anti-virus, anti-spyware IT Blog Employers are paying a premium for SAP ABAP, IBM WebSphere skills Java experts and radio frequency identification technology talent, according to research from Foote Partners LLC.Download the IT skills and certifications ranking podcast with David Foote here: This week we also discuss the latest SAP...
IT Blog Apple unveiled details of the upcoming Mac OS X 10.7,a.k.a. "Lion", a few months back. The company is still hard at work developing the OS, and apparently Apple is taking security much more seriously with this next release of the flagship OS. Apple has reportedly invited expert security researche...
IT Blog Google's security reputation has been taking a beating in the blogosphere this week, with researchers spotlighting new flaws in the search giant's popular tools. Software developer Giorgio Maone offers a very good analysis in his Hackademics blog of which Google programs are flawed and who discover...
Application Security, Information Security Threats, Security Management IT Blog In part two of this two-part podcast, special guest Andrew Jaquith of Perimeter E-Security joins the SearchSecurity editorial team in exploring the highs and lows of 2011 for the security industry. Digital certificate breaches have fueled an erosion of trust online, according to the SearchSecurity ...
digital certificate breach, Security Squad, threat planning IT Blog Cisco is aggressively building out its smart grid capabilities this week, announcing a major partnership with a smart reader company yesterday and buying a making of IP-based wireless network systems and software for energy management today. Yesterday Cisco unveiled a strategic partnership with Itr...
IT Blog Unless you've been living in a cave, you're aware that the first set of Windows Phone 7 models was unveiled this week. Generally speaking, I like Microsoft's new mobile operating system, but there's one feature that notably absent: cut, copy, and paste. The good news is that Microsoft says it's goi...
IT Blog In doing research for my story on yesterday's VMware mobile virtualization news, Keith Kessinger and I came across some articles from 2008, when VMware first announced its Mobile Virtualization Platform. Some of the predictions and comments about the mobile market in those articles are pretty entert...
IT Blog Like those houses on reality TV, packed to the ceiling with years' worth of accumulated trash and newspapers, your data center's filled to the brim. Except instead of disposables, you need solutions to deal with computer and storage systems. Valuable stuff. You probably don't want some cow grazing...
Storage in 2010, Data Center, Green IT IT Blog Juniper Networks on Tuesday unveiled a software suite that company executives touted as the first product to provide integrated security and secure connectivity across all types of mobile devices. The Junos Pulse Security Suite includes antivirus, antispam, a personal firewall, device monitoring an...
IT Blog IBM Hybrid Mainframe unveiled - Giant leap for Mainframes IBM has unveiled the Hybrid Mainframe - the zEnterprise mainframe server and a new systems design - that allows workloads on mainframe, POWER7 and System x servers to share resources and be managed as a single, virtualized system. The new ...
IBM, Mainframe, Hybrid Mainframe IT Blog Have PeopleSoft and E-Business Suite lost their magic? If you take a look at Gartner's Magic Quadrant, then the answer is yes. This year, PeopleSoft CRM and E-Business Suite were nowhere to be seen on the research firm's annual Sales Force Automation rankings - - a list on which they have placed hi...
Oracle database administration, Oracle development, Managing an Oracle shop IT Blog Last month, I blogged about the different advice you can get from experts about how to measure software quality. I was chatting about the range of opinions on defect trackingwith performance test guruScott Barber, and he asked if I'd like to speak at the upcoming STP OnlineSummit: Delivering V...
IT Blog Microsoft Still a Monopoly, 7 State Attorneys Say Seven states are pushing back against the Department of Justice's assessment that the landmark antitrust settlement between the United States and Microsoft has removed the anticompetitive obstacles created by the software maker and resulted in more c...
