Archive for the 'Nick Heath silicon.com' Category
Friday, December 12th, 2008
PricewaterhouseCoopers and security vendor Finjan expect insider fraud and cybercrime to rise as IT jobs are lost. Desperate IT workers who have been laid off will go rogue in 2009, selling corporate data and using crimeware, reports have predicted. The credit crunch will drive some IT…
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economy, Financial, cybercrime, PricewaterhouseCoopers Consulting, Phishing, Finjan Software Inc., fraud, Litigation, Business Operations, Finance, Security, Attacks, Nick Heath silicon.com, Spam And Phishing, Financial Accounting |
Wednesday, December 10th, 2008
Industry observers say virtualization will enable staff to use their own devices at work, while keeping corporate data safe. Virtualization promises to usher in a new era of consumer technology in the workplace ? potentially satisfying the demands of new workers from the Facebook generation who want to use…
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IT management, virtual machines, Virtual Machine, Nick Heath silicon.com, Cloud Computing, Virtual Desktop, Desktop Virtualization, Desktop, Security, Utility Computing, Workplace, Hardware, Virtualization, Storage, Storage Management, Facebook |
Thursday, December 4th, 2008
Roasted laptops, panthers savaging memory sticks and angry fishermen throwing computers overboard top the list of the year’s weirdest computing disasters. Roasted laptops, panthers savaging memory sticks and angry fishermen throwing computers overboard top the list of the year’s weirdest computing disasters. The top 10…
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laptops, disaster recovery, Nick Heath silicon.com, Notebooks & Tablets, Hardware, Notebooks, Laptop Computer |
Wednesday, November 12th, 2008
Online networks suffered their heaviest brute force attacks to date this year, with more sites than ever coming under sustained assault. Online networks suffered their heaviest brute force attacks to date this year, with more sites than ever coming under sustained assault. IP networks were…
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Nick Heath silicon.com, botnets, DNS cache, DDOS, malware, Attack, Security, Attacks, Network, Networking |
Monday, November 3rd, 2008
RSA says cloud-computing crimeware means networks of zombie machines can be hired to steal online-banking details for as little as $299 a month. Cloud-computing crimeware means networks of zombie machines can be hired to steal online-banking details for as little as $299 (£185) per month….
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RSA Security Inc., Fraudster, cloud, Spyware, Adware & Malware, Trojan, zombie, RSA, Adware & Malware, Spyware, Viruses And Worms, Security, Networking, Network, Cyberthreats, Nick Heath silicon.com, malware, Productivity |
Friday, October 31st, 2008
Atos Origin explains how risk-management tech helped to prioritize the real risks hidden within. The security team behind the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games has revealed how it found the real risks hidden within the millions of alerts received every day. Faced with 12 million alerts per…
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Atos, Atos Origin, risk-management, Nick Heath silicon.com, Olympics, Hacker, Team, Game, Security |
Thursday, October 30th, 2008
Companies that play a key role in the Britain’s national infrastructure are facing sustained cyber-espionage attacks, says a UK cyber-defense chief. Sustained cyber-espionage attacks are being waged on companies that play a key role in the Britain’s national infrastructure, a UK cyber-defense chief has warned….
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Nick Heath silicon.com, cybercrime, espionage, U.K., Attack, Security, Attacks, Cyberattack, Government |
Friday, October 17th, 2008
As the head of IT at Cern, Wolfgang Von Rueden and his team provide the computing backbone that supports the Large Hadron Collider particle accelerator’s hunt for the elusive “God particle.” Few CIOs could claim to have helped recreate the Big Bang at work. But as head…
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Black Hole, particle accelerator, Large Hadron Collider, CERN, Nick Heath silicon.com |
Wednesday, September 17th, 2008
The credit crunch has dominated the front pages in 2008, and claimed a number of high-profile scalps, such as that of the 158-year-old Lehman Brothers bank. As job losses mount, and with HP announcing it will lay off tens of thousands of workers following its purchase of…
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Financial, Nick Heath silicon.com, IT management, Outsourcing Company, Supplier, layoffs, economy, EquaTerra, HP, Information Technology, Outsourcing, Business Operations, Management, It Operations, Outsourcing & Subcontracting, Industry, Hardware, Strategy, Software |
Wednesday, September 3rd, 2008
Certain features of increasingly widespread enterprise smartphones may aid criminals in hiding incriminating evidence, says the UK’s Serious Fraud Office. Criminals can remotely destroy incriminating evidence by exploiting security features on the Apple iPhone, a leading digital-forensics expert has warned. The head of the UK’s Serious…
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Smart Phones, Nick Heath silicon.com, iPhone, Encryption, Apple, Unit, fraud, PC Architecture, Keith Foggon, Team Management, Team, Mobile, Apple iPhone, Consumer electronics, Advertising & Promotion, Marketing, Security, Productivity, Management, Personal Technology |
Wednesday, May 14th, 2008
Key UK industry figures believe Britain should forget any hopes of matching China and India in the low-cost end of the software market, and instead carve out a high-end niche. UK software sales are on course to lag almost $60 billion behind China this year, fuelling high-level calls for…
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U.K., Nick Heath silicon.com, Inda, services, India, China, Tools & Techniques, Management, Revenue, Software |
