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Company's beta product, Security Analytics, in the works to help evolution of 'traditional SIEM'
New breed of biometrics equipment already in use with government intelligence in secretive agencies
Software developer claims Virgin Mobile USA employs poor password security practices on its website
Security threats to mobile devices are on the rise
But Microsoft at fault, too, for not letting XP users run newer IE9
While there are reasons to keep using a BlackBerry as your enterprise-focused smartphone, they're quickly vanishing
Damballa researchers believe a new variant of the sophisticated TDL4 bootkit affected over 250,000 victims in the past few months
Researchers also gained free access to data by hacking DNS servers
The cloud-compatible platform is free but storage is limited to 100TB
BPaaS, SaaS and IaaS dominate market today; cloud is still only 3% of total IT spending
AT&T's blocking of Apple's FaceTime violate the FCC's rules, three advocacy groups say
The government in Pakistan said it had asked Google to block the offensive video
Meanwhile, more Flame variants may be operational but undiscovered
Suggests temporary defenses, but others urge users to switch to Chrome or Firefox
The phone will start shipping in October in Europe and Latin America
18% say data-security breaches cost them $500,000 or more, according to Forrester
An annual index also finds that tablets are spurring PC makers to produce better wares
Aims to compete with Dropbox, Box, Egnyte with more enterprise-grade offering
The two men were part of a conspiracy causing $10 million in losses from customers of Subway restaurants
FBI say variants of Zeus are part of some attacks
More than half of Android devices worldwide have unpatched vulnerabilities, security firm finds
HD Moore, maker of Metasploit, urges users to ditch IE7, IE8 and IE9 until Microsoft fixes critical flaw
The agency relaxes rules against acquisitions contained in the 1996 Telecom Act at the request of cable operators
Member of newly formed OpenStack board of directors is worried about the perception of letting a chief rival into the project
As opposition mounts to an executive order, question is whether White House will plow ahead or drop idea
Intel is looking beyond Windows 8 and now says it will bring Android support to tablets based on Clover Trail chips
The company is in a management crisis with some betting it will go bankrupt
Also: Windows 8 for games, final Office will be an upgrade to Windows RT
The company's burgeoning array of products and 'social enterprise' strategy will be on display
Google has blocked access to the controversial video in five countries
Puts more pressure on operators and enterprises to roll out IPv6
Open source software can replace proprietary legacy systems even in demanding fields such as transaction processing, report says
Privacy feature support shows up in Chromium, the project that feeds code into Chrome
Malwarebytes Enterprise Edition is Windows-only, with management console
The two component factories were vandalized in widespread anti-Japan protests sweeping across China
The company has told a bankruptcy court that it is still in discussions over the auction
But Google has said the video is clearly within its guidelines for other countries
Significant impact on Windows XP, which cannot run newer IE9 or the upcoming IE10
Acer abruptly canceled a launch of a new smartphone in China on Thursday, without clearly saying why
Among the 14 new Apps for Education customers are Carnegie Mellon University and Princeton University