It seems Katie Holmes will get to do her best Jackie O impersonation for the masses Stateside after all. The Kennedys — the shelved political miniseries slighted by The History Channel last month — has found new life on The ReelzChannel, the network revealed this week. The production stars Greg Kinnear as President John F. [...]
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Enterprise Compliance Costs Hit $3.5 Million, Study Finds
January 31st, 2011 |
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A survey of multinational corporations found those companies that performed internal audits spent less per capita on compliance than those that didn’t perform any. – The penalties for being out-of-step with compliance mandates are not going away, and neither is the cost of keeping up with regulations.
However, a new report from the Ponemon Institute revealed that more compliance audits can actually have the effect of lowering the price tag.
According to the …
Researcher Finds Google Android Data Stealing Vulnerability
January 28th, 2011 |
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A researcher revealed a way to exploit a vulnerability affecting Google Android users that can be used to steal data. – A security researcher has uncovered a way to exploit a data-leak issue
affecting Google Android users.
Xuxian Jiang, an assistant professor at North
Carolina State University,
discovered the bug while working on what he described as an Android-related project.
The flaw, he wrote
in an adviso…
Secunia PSI 2 Finds and Installs Patches for Installed Applications
January 5th, 2011 |
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Secunia PSI 2.0 adds auto-update capability for third-party applications to the familiar, free application vulnerability assessment tool, making it easier for users to identify and patch out-of-date applications installed on PCs running Windows 7, Windows Vista or Windows XP. Keeping both the OS and applications up-to-date is among the best ways to avoid exploit and attack, particularly against threats not yet detected by complementary anti-malware programs. PSI 2.0 also fixes a bunch of small problems found in the previous versions, fixing Windows rights issues for limited rights users and removing the reliance on Adobe Flash for graphical elements, operation. PSI 2.0 is available as a free download for personal use only from http://www.secunia.com , but corporate IT would be wise to recommend PSI to users connecting to enterprise resources from personal PCs. To read the full review, check out "Secunia PSI 2.0 Identifies and Installs Application Updates". Or if you have experience with Secunia PSI 2.0, share your thoughts at http://labs.eweek.com. – …
Businesses Expect Increased Sales in 2011, Survey Finds
December 27th, 2010 |
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Among the top three areas of focus for businesses are software, hardware and a company’s Website. – Heading into the new year, a majority of small to medium-size businesses are
optimistic and are planning moderate changes in 2011, according to a survey of
more than 1,000 SMB decision makers. With 84 percent of the SMBs surveyed
predicting that sales will increase or remain the same, many busine…
Hundreds of Banking Sites Vulnerable to RSA Security Flaw, Researcher Finds
December 9th, 2010 |
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Hundreds of banking Websites are still vulnerable to a patched vulnerability affecting certain versions of the RSA Adaptive Authentication platform. – RSA, EMCs security division, is advising customers to apply a
two-year-old patch for its Adaptive Authentication product after a
researcher discovered hundreds of banking Websites are still open to
attack.
RSA Adaptive Authentication is a risk-based fraud prevention and authentication platform t…
IT Professionals Labor Market Stagnating, Report Finds
December 7th, 2010 |
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Volatility remains the dominant trend right now for IT skills as well as jobs, a Foote Partners report finds. – U.S. employment numbers released by the Department of Labors Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) revealed a net gain of 4,400 IT-related jobs in November for the sixth straight month of net jobs gains in IT labor segments. Five bellweather IT job segments in the BLS data showed a net gain of 45,100 job…
NASA Finds Arsenic-Based Microorganism in California Lake
December 3rd, 2010 |
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A research team funded by the space agency found life built with the toxic chemical arsenic in a California lake. – NASA-funded researchers conducting tests in the harsh environment of Mono
Lake in California
announced they have discovered the first known microorganism on Earth able to
thrive and reproduce using the toxic chemical arsenic, a discovery NASA
officials said has changed the fundamental knowledge …
Tiger Woods Scandal Finds Its Way To “Law & Order: Los Angelesâ€
December 1st, 2010 |
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The Law & Order franchise is teeing up its notorious Ripped-From-the-Headlines approach and aiming it squarely at shamed golfer Tiger Woods. The plot on Wednesday night’s edition of Law & Order: Los Angeles includes a philandering golf star and his club-wielding wife. When police arrive on the scene, the bleeding athlete says his spouse was [...]
CompTIA Study Finds IT Managers Struggle to Solve Emerging Threats
November 18th, 2010 |
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IT executives consider information security as high priority but struggle to develop policies to deal with emerging threats from social networking sites, mobile devices and the cloud. – IT managers are ranking information security as high IT priority within their
organizations, but more training and better policies are necessary to protect them
from new threats, according to survey results released by CompTIA on Nov. 18.
CompTIA’s Global Security Trends, an annual report examini…
CA Technologies Study Finds Mainframes Critical to Cloud Strategy
November 18th, 2010 |
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A panel of mainframe experts from CA Technologies and other companies discussed the role of mainframes in the cloud and how organizations can attract and train skilled mainframe workers. – Even with organizations shifting business-critical applications to
the cloud, mainframes remain as relevant as ever, but organizations are
struggling to find skilled IT workers familiar with the technology,
according to a survey by CA Technologies. CA presented the study
results during a panel…
NASA finds 30-yr-old ‘youngest’ nearby black hole
November 16th, 2010 |
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NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory has discovered evidence of the youngest black hole known to exist in our cosmic neighbourhood. The 30-year-old black hole could help scientists better understand how massive stars explode, which ones leave behind black holes or neutron stars, and the number of black holes in our galaxy and others. It is a [...]
Microsoft Study Finds Cloud Computing Is Good for the Environment
November 4th, 2010 |
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By comparing on-premises business applications to cloud-based equivalents, the researchers found that cloud computing has positive effects on the environment, especially if you are a small company. – A Microsoft study bears out what
environmentally-conscious companies have hoped for all along: cloud
computing has the potential to reduce energy consumption and carbon
emissions by 30 percent or more.
Large data centers, like those run by tech
giants Microsoft and Google, benefit from econom…
Targeted E-Mail Attacks Increasing, Symantec Report Finds
October 29th, 2010 |
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Targeted e-mail attacks are increasingly focused on the retail sector, a report from Symantec finds. – Targeted e-mail attacks have increased significantly since they were first
discovered five years ago. They have gone from one to two attacks per week in
2005 to 77 attacks per day in October 2010, according to a report from security
specialist Symantec.
The results of the study were announced w…
Nokia N8 Teardown Finds Sharp Design, Killer Camera
October 8th, 2010 |
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An iFixit teardown of the Nokia N8 smartphone reveals a mix of exciting design, never-before-seen features and just a touch of ho-hum. – Nokia began shipping its flagship
N8 smartphone Sept. 30, and after getting a hold of one, repair site iFixit
opened it up for a peek inside. With a 3.5-inch capacitive multitouch display,
the Symbian 3 operating system, an ARM11
680MHz processor, 512MB of SDRAM (synchronous dynamic RAM),
512MB…
Symantec Finds Half of Critical Infrastructure Companies See Political Cyber-attacks
October 6th, 2010 |
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In a Symantec survey of nearly 1,600 critical infrastructure companies, 53 percent reported having experienced what appeared to be a politically motivated cyber-attack. – A new report by Symantec underscores the threat facing critical
infrastructure networks around the world.
The statistics tell the tale. In its August Critical Infrastructure Protection Study, (PDF)
covering 1,580
responses from businesses in quot;six industries categorized as critical infrastru…
Data Leakage on the Rise, Survey Finds
October 1st, 2010 |
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As information leakage incidents grow, report shows security is top of mind, but solutions in place are insufficient. – Confidela, the maker of WatchDox, a document control, tracking and
protection solution, announced survey results based on responses from
more than 500 IT professionals and C-level executives. The survey found
as the need to share and collaborate increases and serious incidents of
data leakage ar…
CDW Poll Finds Businesses Overconfident About Business Continuity
September 29th, 2010 |
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A poll of American businesses by IT product retailer CDW found that businesses may be overconfident in the resilience of their networks. They do a good job of planning, but they are still not well-equipped to handle possible disruptions. – Survey results reveal that businesses are overconfident in their business
continuity and data recovery capabilities, despite all evidence to the
contrary, CDW said on Sept. 29.
In a poll of 200 IT managers at medium and large businesses who had
experienced network disruptions in the past year, 8…
Industry Report Finds 30,000 New Jobs Added in 2010
September 15th, 2010 |
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While the number of tech jobs is running below late 2008/early 2009 numbers, there has been some expansion of hiring. Three major categories of tech jobs have seen growth. – In
the first six months of the year, 30,200 technology jobs were added to the
economy, according to a report by industry trade group TechAmerica. The trade
organization looked at data provided by the U.S. Department of Labor’s Bureau
of Labor Statistics.
The
main areas adding jobs include soft…
Managed Services Changing IT Reseller Landscape, Study Finds
September 9th, 2010 |
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A whitepaper from NovaStor finds managed services will significantly alter the IT channel landscape. – A decreasing reliance by businesses on client-server based
infrastructures to deliver IT services is drastically changing the
business landscape for many traditional IT channel players, including
classic IT dealers and Value Added Resellers, according to a
whitepaper from data protection softwar…