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Phishers ride on financial crisis theme
Phishing attacks have doubled in the last month, with phishers riding on the downturn in the economy to pose as financial institutions, said Symantec.
According to the antivirus company's latest MessageLabs Intelligence Report, the recession theme...
Ovum: Treat cloud as traditional asset
Don't treat cloud services any differently from other IT assets in an organization, advised Ovum.
Following the recent crash of social bookmarking site, Ma.gnolia, which wiped out all of its users' data, the analyst firm released a statement advising...
More contract IT jobs expected in S'pore
SINGAPORE--A significantly higher number of jobs in the country will be offered on a contract basis this year, as organizations look for flexible employment terms to circumvent headcount restrictions, a human resource survey revealed.
According to...
DNS Still Less than Secure
Exploits for a serious cache-poisoning vulnerability discovered in the Domain Name System (DNS) last year have begun to appear in the wild, and they have made security researcher Dan Kaminsky a believer in DNS Security Extensions (DNSSEC).
"I've never...
Having a cow over Gmail just misses the point
By Charles Cooper
A big outage at Google Tuesday. Things go dark early while most of the U.S. is sleeping. Still,...
New variant of Conficker worm circulates
A new variant of the Conficker Internet worm is circulating that opens up a backdoor that could allow an attacker to distribute malware to infected machines, the US-CERT organization warned Monday.
The new Conficker/Downadup worm, dubbed "Conficker B++",...
Exiting workers taking confidential data with them
As layoffs continue apace, a survey released on Monday shows what many companies fear--exiting workers are taking a lot more with them than just their personal plants and paperweights.
Of about 950 people who said they had lost or left their jobs during...
IBM highlights new threats
IBM has pointed to new technology such as virtualization, cloud computing and SaaS (software as a service) as new vectors for security attacks, together helping to drive the security market in Thailand to around one billion baht (US$28 million) this...
Microsoft working on ultra-secure browser
Microsoft staff are working on an internet browser designed to be more secure than either Internet Explorer or any of its rivals. The project is still at the prototype stage and the browser still needs work to improve sluggish performance.
The researchers...
Microsoft aims to build a better thesaurus
A team of researchers at Microsoft is looking to beat Roget at his own game.
Aiming to build a better thesaurus, the Writing Assistance project within Microsoft's research unit is tapping techniques developed to translate from one language to another....
Asia still on lookout for best IT talent
Employees once had a pick of the type of jobs they want, but the tide has changed and it is now an employers' market. However, even in the current economic landscape, organizations are finding it challenging to recruit the best talent.
E. Balaji,...
Outsourcing: Bye bye Chennai, hello Brisbane
Forget Chennai and Mumbai--the outsourcing hubs of tomorrow will be in Belfast and Brisbane.
An eclectic mix of 31 cities, in countries ranging from Australia and Ireland to areas in South America and Africa, will challenge today's best-known outsourcing...
India's 3G, WiMax rollout may be pushed to 2010
INDIA--Although Telecommunication Minister A. Raja this week said it is possible to hold auctions for India's 3G spectrum by Mar. 31, experts doubt the current government will proceed with haste in this realm.
Nupur Singh Andley, senior research...
Growth of clinical trial outsourcing raises issues
By Tom Watkins
(CNN) -- The practice of moving research involving human subjects from wealthy countries to less wealthy countries has grown in recent years, raising a number of ethical and scientific issues that need to be addressed, researchers said...
Antitrust Pick Varney Saw Google as Next Microsoft
By James Rowley
Christine A. Varney, nominated by President Barack Obama to be the U.S.’s next antitrust chief, has described Google Inc. as a monopolist that will dominate online computing services the way Microsoft Corp. ruled software.
“For...
Winter Olympics tech on track
A year before the Winter Olympics in Vancouver get under way the technological backbone is nearing the finish line.
The 2010 Olympic Games will depend on the 13 computer systems handling everything from streaming results worldwide to workforce management,...
Yahoo MyWeb bites the dust
Yahoo said last week that it will discontinue its MyWeb service on March 18 and is encouraging people to use other Yahoo bookmarking services.
"As we have continued to innovate with the 2.0 release of Delicious and the upgraded Yahoo Bookmarks, we...
Audit: No customer data exposed in Kaspersky breach
An independent audit of a data breach at security firm Kaspersky's U.S. Web site has confirmed that no customer data was exposed, Kaspersky said last week.
A Romanian hacker site used a SQL injection and cross-site scripting attack to get access to...
Facebook hits 175 million user mark
By Steven Musil
A little more than a month after announcing it had 150 million active users, Facebook has reached 175 million active users--the statistic the social networking site prefers to use, rather than registered accounts overall.
Dave Morin,...
Microsoft launches Windows Mobile 6.5
By David Meyer
Microsoft has revealed Windows Mobile 6.5, along with an application marketplace and Web-based backup and synchronization service for the operating system.
The announcements were made by Microsoft chief executive Steve Ballmer on...
Asian telcos step up 'green' in 2009
By Vivian Yeo
Telcos in Asia, as with their counterparts in other regions, will place greater emphasis on green IT this year, as they seek to cut costs and ride out the downturn, according to industry observers.
Ovum's senior analyst of telco operations...
HP aces data center migration for Britannia
Data center migration
Britannia Industries Ltd. has enjoyed a smooth, seamless migration with minimum service outages. Akhtar Pasha reports on the data center migration projectBritannia Industries Ltd , one of India’s leading food companies,...
Webware Radar: Google Checkout stalls as Bill Me Later soars
Marketing agency Rosetta released a study Thursday that found Bill Me Later and PayPal are the most popular alternative payment options on the Web, capturing 26 percent and 25 percent market share, respectively. Google Checkout increased its...
Twitter hit with 'Don't Click' clickjacking attack
This graph shows how quickly the "Don't Click" tweets spread across Twitter.
(Credit: Sunlight Labs) Twitter stopped a clickjacking attack on Thursday that quickly spread because it took advantage of social engineering and peoples' natural curiosity.
Tweets...
Zumbox gives your house an e-mail in-box
Zumbox is an interesting e-mail start-up based on the company's capability to create an electronic mailbox for every residential physical address in the United States.
The idea is that companies that send our paper statements--banks, utility...
Twitter security: There's still a lot of work to do
By Don Reisinger Few people would characterize the popular and influential microblogging service Twitter as "secure." Hack attacks on Twitter, and Twitter users, appear...
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