Security
Resources related to information security, including news and opinion and more on software and application flaws and fixes, data breaches, the inside threat the latest hacker attacks.
Microsoft: Win8 Simplifies, Improves Parental Monitoring of Kids Computer Activities
Mon, May 14, 2012 - The new OS makes it easier for parents to keep tabs on and control their children's PC and online usage, according to Microsoft
Microsoft Cloud Survey: Security, Cost Both a Deterrent and an Attraction
Mon, May 14, 2012 - Small and midsize businesses that actually use cloud services see them as a way to boost security and save money, according to a survey sponsored by Microsoft.
Cloud Computing Tools: Improving Security Through Visibility and Automation
Mon, May 14, 2012 - Many enterprises are reluctant to move critical cloud applications out of their own data centers and into the public cloud due to security concerns. Yet the same automated, consistent provisioning that is essential to managing either public or private clouds (as well as to the process of thinking through a cloud deployment) can also offer the fringe benefit of improving security.
Companies Slow to React to Mobile Security Threat
Mon, May 14, 2012 - Nearly a third of IT managers have reported a security threat as a result of personal devices accessing company data, Juniper finds.
5 Key Interop 2012 Takeaways for CIOs and Other IT Pros
Mon, May 14, 2012 - As everything from application delivery to security and monitoring is seemingly shifting to the cloud, IT faces a chaotic and difficult to manage world. The good news is the tools are there, but you just can't go to a single provider as you did in the past. Given this shift, it's no surprise that Interop returned to its interoperability roots last week.
Adobe Backpedals, Will Now Patch Software for Free
Sat, May 12, 2012 - After being pummeled by customers and security experts for telling users to spend hundreds of dollars on upgrades because it wasn't going to patch critical bugs in older versions of its software, Adobe has reversed course.
Facebook Proposes More Changes to Privacy Policy
Fri, May 11, 2012 - Critics are skeptical about the move's timing just before the company's IPO
Cloud, BYOD Increases Need for Automated IAM Systems
Fri, May 11, 2012 - As traditional security concepts of perimeter and end-point defense break down as a result of the proliferation of cloud services and the BYOD phenomenon, enterprises are increasingly feeling the need for greater control over access to applications. That's where automated identity and access management comes in.
Amnesty International's UK Website Compromised to Infect Visitors with Cyberspying Malware
Fri, May 11, 2012 - Malicious code on Amnesty International's UK website exploited a Java vulnerability to install Gh0st RAT on people's computers
Sides Dig in as FBI Warns of "Going Dark" in Online Era
Fri, May 11, 2012 - Privacy and civil liberty advocates argue the FBI has not established the need to amend wiretap law to create online "back doors" to track crime



