Facebook 'sponsored stories' privacy proposal: Farcical fiasco
Facebook (NASDAQ:FB) is again under fire over its privacy-preventing 'sponsored stories' advertising scheme. This time, by a federal judge: A class-action settlement is being criticized because it...
View ArticleApple iCloud 'not secure': Cloud rains on BYOD parade
Mat Honan suffered a hellacious hack Friday. It turns out that Apple (NASDAQ:AAPL) reset his password for a hacker. Due to the nature of iCloud, all his devices stopped working and he's lost all his...
View ArticleLadies and gentlemen, please secure your belongings for takeoff and landing
The rise in acceptance of cloud based services makes it easy for us to forget about the interconnectedness of our digital personas. Standardization of security is the only way forward.
View ArticleWhy Google bought VirusTotal
Google (NASDAQ:GOOG) bought VirusTotal last week. But why? What could the search/ads/mobile/cloud company want with this Spanish malware-scan aggregator? In IT Blogwatch, bloggers search for the...
View ArticleSecuring WordPress against hacks
WordPress is the Internet's most popular content management system -- which makes it a likely target to be hacked. When I realized my sites had been compromised, I identified the threat and hardened...
View ArticleThe paranoid user's guide to password protection: 10 steps to better security
Yes, they are out to get you. Yes, they want your passwords. And if you're like most folks out there, you've given them plenty of ways to take them from you. If you're dead serious about securing your...
View ArticleIBM and AT&T offer cloud mish-mash for fearful firms
IBM (NYSE:IBM) and AT&T (NYSE:T) will get together to offer a cloud IaaS to big enterprises in 2013. The pair claim that it'll be more secure and manageable than other cloudy infrastructures, and...
View ArticleTwitter password reset email: Legit change or phishing hack?
Twitter sends password reset email to many accounts, thanks to a security breach. Or, at least, it looked like a breach, but it may just have been the usual phishing hack attempts. Twitter says it's...
View ArticleISO 27001 is the litmus test for information security
With increasing reliance on collaboration tools to improve information management in regulated industries – such as financial services, healthcare and construction – organizations must demand the...
View ArticleAverting SaaS-astrophe with a dose of reality
Balancing this risk-reward equation is a tricky operation, but eminently achievable if vendors and enterprise IT leaders collectively embrace the new realities of doing business in today's mobile,...
View ArticleThe cloud is not the answer to every problem
Let’s all take a big step forward together and admit it, we’re tired of hearing about “The Cloud.” Almost everywhere you look there is an article, interview, product release, or discussion on the...
View ArticleHere, there, everywhere: Data residency and the public cloud
It's 10:00 PM. Do you know where your data is? Is it nestled securely within the firewalls of your data center, or is it more adventurous, spanning the boundaries of various public clouds? Cloud...
View ArticleCloud security: A real concern or just an excuse?
Is cloud security the chicken or the egg? Are CSOs playing the 'it's not secure' card to avoid anything that, well, smells like work? Are IT pros rabidly defending their turf because they fear their...
View ArticleGoogle cloud attacks Amazon and Azure at I/O
Urs Hölzle gets excited. Google (NASDAQ:GOOG) announces new cloud stuff. The huge ad broker wants to compete better with Microsoft Azure and Amazon AWS/EC2. Among the highlights: New pricing, shared...
View ArticlePCI forecast: Cloudy, with a chance of compliance
When IT teams start talking Infrastructure as a Service, I expect corporate compliance officers hear virtual alarm klaxons, along with the not-so-friendly warning, “Sir, step away from the cloud.” We...
View ArticleVirtualization security 101: A user's primer
Server virtualization allows you to float multiple 'virtual machines' on top of a physical server, using a hypervisor to manage them. The obvious benefits are better hardware utilization, faster...
View ArticleMicrosoft leads the way into massive NSA, FBI privacy invasion
One of Microsoft's latest ad campaigns promises "Your Privacy Is Our Priority," but Microsoft led the way for companies to open up their servers and massive data warehouses to NSA and FBI data...
View ArticleBanking on the public cloud
What do banks and the public cloud have in common? More than you might think. Let’s use the concept of banking as we jump into the root of the public cloud debate.
View ArticleThe dangers of bypassing web filters
I am sure we have all sat behind a corporate filter that prevented access to certain websites during working hours. However, blocking websites, increases the interest and use of ways around these...
View ArticleData privacy and PRISM: When politics and technology collide
If you are both a news and a cloud junky as I am, there has never been a more interesting -- or distracting -- time to hit refresh on your favorite online news site. The recent statements by...
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