Disaster Recovery News
Prism doesn't have CIOs in a panic -- yet
Revelations over the U.S. National Security Agency's Prism surveillance program have much of the general public in uproar, but in terms of the...
Microsoft criticized for botnet takedown tactics
Security pros are said to be against any vendor modifying a person's computer without permission, even if the intention is good
SMS spam cruises for suckers
Top texting scam in May tantalizes vacationers
IT on the edge: CIOs who (literally) keep the lights on
CIOs in emerging economies have to be creative to keep IT up and running -- addressing redundancy, navigating a thicket of sometimes onerous...
The key to robust apps and ops: Be your own worst enemy
Webscale pioneers like Netflix, Google, Amazon and Etsy have made a science of breaking their own applications and infrastructure so that they can...
Hot cloud products IT pros swear by
Spending on cloud services is so far just a fraction of total IT spending -- roughly 3% -- but the market is growing. IT pros explain what they like...
Researchers find Java users woefully tardy on patching
Half of users running version two-years-old or older
Oracle's Java security improvements don't quite satisfy
Changes welcomed, but one expert said he'd like to see sandbox technology in Java like that used in Adobe Reader and Google Chrome
Tornadoes and data centers are OK in Oklahoma
If the question about tornadoes comes up at his Oklahoma City data center, as it sometimes does, Todd Currie, vice president of operations and...
Liberty Reserve bust hits cybercriminals where it hurts
Shutting down what is believed to be the biggest online money laundering organization will make it a lot harder for cybercriminals to operate
Aurora hackers said to have accessed law enforcement targets
Chinese cyber marauders sought more than just information on activists -- they wanted access to FBI, DOJ investigations on spies in the U.S.
Opinion varies on action against Chinese cyberattacks
New cyberespionage attack by People's Liberation Army prompts calls for action such as sanctions, but experts are mixed on best response
Practical advice about disaster recovery planning
Disaster recovery plans and the usual mix of uninterrupted power supplies (UPSs), co-location services, data mirroring and hot-standby technologies...
Pressure mounts for building in security during application development
Microsoft survey of IT pros and developers worldwide found only 37% worked for organizations that built products with security in mind
Tibco offers free R to the enterprise
Hoping to entice more enterprises to use the R statistical programming language directly within their predictive modeling and data visualization...
Labor Department hackers more sophisticated than most
Security pro says attacks designed for further breaches, noting, 'They're not gathering this information and sending it home for no...
Understanding hypervisor-based disaster recovery
A common misconception in IT is that virtualization and enterprise-class disaster recovery just don't mix. Either you get the flexibility of the...
Old Java exploit kit taught new tricks
G01pack mounts a multi-stage attack after invading computers running unpatched versions of Oracle's Java 6
Experts hope for another failure in next Anonymous attack
Twist in the planned U.S. attack is to target small banks, which are unlikely to have the same level of sophistication in their defenses
Use Net Uptime Monitor to help diagnose Internet problems
As I documented last week, I've been having intermittent problems with my Internet connection. Just when I thought I'd solved it, I woke up...
IT on the edge: CIOs who (literally) keep the lights on
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