Archives for June, 2009
Broadcom raises Emulex bid
Madame, will you talk?
Broadcom has gone ahead and raised its $9.25/share all-cash Emulex bid to $11.00/share, the upper end of the expected range.…
What is your recession sales strategy?
How secure are your applications?
Locking the stable door before the horse bolts
Let’s be blunt. The fine heritage of application development has not traditionally incorporated the pre-emptive creation of secure code, i.e. programs that are built from the ground up to be secure.…
Case Study: WhatsUp keeps Legoland turnstyles ringing
Masked passwords must go
‘Shoulder surfing is largely a phantom problem’
Websites should stop masking passwords as users type because it does not improve security and makes websites harder to use, according to two of the technology world’s leading thinkers.…
The power of collaboration within unified communications
Sun hardens OpenSolaris for EC2
A bunch of different AMIs for the masses
In the wake of the launch of the OpenSolaris 2009.06 release earlier this month, the open source Solaris project has packaged up a bunch of Amazon Machine Image (AMI) virtual machines based on OpenSolaris so they can be deployed on the ECS compute cloud.…
HDS spices up mid-range
Things get dense
HDS has added a raft of incremental upgrades to its AMS2000 line of mid-range storage arrays.…
China bans virtual cash for real-world trade
Peer-to-peer transactions only
Officials in China are banning use of virtual money to buy real-world goods and services.…
The power of collaboration within unified communications
Hip-hop site served child porn, police say
Unbeknownst to operator
Police in Switzerland have uncovered a child pornography ring that secretly used a hip-hop website to distribute illegal images to some 2,300 computers in 78 countries.…
Case Study: WhatsUp keeps Legoland turnstyles ringing
Notorious phone phreaker gets 11 years for swatting
End of the (party) line
A notorious phone phreaker has been sentenced to more than 11 years in prison after admitting he took part in a scheme that hacked phone systems to fake emergency 911 calls that sent teams of heavily armed police to the home of unsuspecting victims.…
Offloading malware protection to the cloud
FTC settles with scareware scammers on reduced terms
10 cents per victim? We’ve spent the rest
US consumer watchdogs at the Federal Trade Commission have agreed to settle a lawsuit against rogue security software distributors on reduced terms.…
The power of collaboration within unified communications
Steve Jobs finds part-time work
Succession question postponed
Steve Jobs has returned to work a full day before Apple’s oft-promised “end of June” deadline.…
Web threats: Why conventional protection doesn’t work
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