I don't know if that's CIOs, or the press, or both. Recently Byte & Switch, CMP Technology's zine on storage networking, published a chef d'oeuvre on troubles with virtualisation . Some amazing thoughts by the captains of the industry. Take this one: Time is definitely a major concern...
An interesting picture appears on the PBS Shop Web site: Because of what it says I felt an urge to click on it. The first attempt (a right-click) resulted in the following message box: I think the law that prohibits copying the picture doesn't exist. Otherwise my Web browser would be breaking the...
VoIP is scary , if you rememeber. Now, there's something else that is scary: WWW, the World-Wide Web. And thanks to Tim O'Reilly and his invention of Web 2.0, it's scarier than ever. As in: there's much more to FUD about. Here's a perfect example: Web 2.0 Threats and Risks for Financial...
Anyone noticing security seals on the Web sites? If not, here's how they look like: This is how they work: you click on the seal, and a pop-up window opens telling you that the bearer of this is indeed who they claim they are. Plus some marketing material and sometimes a link to abuse report form. Please...
For over a hundred years, the public switched telephone network (PSTN) has gained reputation of stable and secure service. Even though it's neither: it is indeed very hard to bring down a whole telco network, but local outages are not unseen; and wiretapping is somewhat trivial attack - but financial...
Forbes , a respectable business magazine, writes about wireless security in the issue of 26 March 2007: Computer security firm Authentium in Palm Beach Gardens, Fla. warns about an emerging Wi-Fi fraud aimed at air passengers. What road warriors sitting in a departure lounge think is a free authorized...
It's in wide use, it's mature yet modern (a new version was released just recently), and it's the most secure consumer OS out there. It's a Microsoft product. The OS in question is Windows Mobile. Formerly known as Windows CE, it became nameless power in Windows-powered Pocket PC and now available on...
I don't run firewall or antivirus software on my personal computer. And the operating system there isn't Mac OS. And I work logged on as the Administrator. The reason is simple. I want to know if the intruders out there will outsmart me - by coming up with a new kind of remote exploit (I don't run unnecessary...