Could something as simple as an SMS text message turn your own smartphone against you, allowing a hacker to listen in on your private conversations or direct you to a malicious Web site? It can be done, according to security experts presenting their findings Thursday at the Black Hat security conference in Las Vegas. News [...]
There’s no point in wasting any more time — or text characters. I’m making it official and declaring this season the Summer of Twitter. You can thank me later. The declaration isn’t just related to the short message service’s use regarding some of the biggest breaking news stories of the past three months, including the [...]
I’m excited and torn over the rumors swirling around the fabled Apple tablet device. Excited because Apple may finally be nearing the release of a new, next-generation product. Torn because I’m having a hard time figuring out if I could personally find enough value in such a device to actually buy it. Still, there’s plenty [...]
Driven by competitive pressure to improve the customer experience, organizations are moving toward an online self-service model that pushes the boundaries of electronic information presentation, or e-presentment. Yet as they embrace this model, new challenges await, including how to ensure customers have seamless online access to relevant and accurate information in the format they [...]
Researchers at Sandia National Laboratories have laid the groundwork for an unprecedented simulation of a large-scale botnet after booting up 1 million Linux kernels as virtual machines. They now are waiting for completion of a new, faster and more capable supercomputer at the Livermore, Calif., lab, on which they hope to run 10 million kernels [...]
A proposed national ban on text messaging while driving is already drawing criticism that it doesn’t go far enough and is unlikely to be effective without stringent enforcement and radical attitude shifts in the driving public. “The real safety problem is not just texting, but all cellphone use while driving,” said Russ Rader, spokesperson for [...]
A proposed national ban on text messaging while driving is already drawing criticism that it doesn’t go far enough and is unlikely to be effective without stringent enforcement and radical attitude shifts in the driving public. “The real safety problem is not just texting, but all cellphone use while driving,” said Russ Rader, spokesperson for [...]
Technologically curious iPhone owners have long been able to jailbreak the device — in other words, unlock the software to allow third-party applications to run on the iPhone without the approval of Apple. Apple has always discouraged the practice, and its latest memo on jailbreaking iPhones claims that such software modifications could crash cellphone towers, [...]
Technologically curious iPhone owners have long been able to jailbreak the device — in other words, unlock the software to allow third-party applications to run on the iPhone without the approval of Apple. Apple has always discouraged the practice, and its latest memo on jailbreaking iPhones claims that such software modifications could crash cellphone towers, [...]
Sensitive data in unstructured formats poses a distinct problem to security- and compliance-minded organizations, a problem exacerbated by the ubiquity of Web-based portals and collaborative tools such as Microsoft SharePoint. Based on the responses of more than 160 companies in the June 2009 benchmark study, “Securing Unstructured Data: How Best-in-Class Companies Manage to Serve and [...]