logo

top

Category: news | Posted by Avatar Staff 335 days ago
Via: http://lists.jammed.com | Tags: isn security warning top malware threats to watch out for comments Discuss  
http://www.informationweek.com/news/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=206105996By Thomas ClaburnInformationWeekFebruary 7, 2008By the end of 2008, McAfee Avert Labs predicts it will have identified some 550,000 malicious programs, a 54% increase from 2007. With all the new malware emerging, we can expect new terminology to describe these constantly morphing threats. Here, then, is our only slightly tongue-in-check attempt to predict some of the rising threats in 2008 and the language that may be employed to desc read more »
addto Add this link to... report Bury 
Category: news | Posted by Avatar Staff 283 days ago
Via: http://www.infoworld.com | Tags: top reasons paranoid comments Discuss  
The truth is out there ... and so is your data. And just because there are no virtual black helicopters following you doesn't mean somebody somewhere doesn't have a bead on who you are and what you are doing. read more »
addto Add this link to... report Bury 
Category: news | Posted by Avatar Staff 273 days ago
Via: http://www.infoworld.com | Tags: top botnets control m hijacked computers comments Discuss  
Storm is a shadow of its former self, Kraken is just another name for Bobax, and the biggest botnet goes by the mouthful of "Srizbi," a noted botnet researcher said Wednesday as he released the results of his census of the various armies of hacked computers that spew spam. read more »
addto Add this link to... report Bury 
Category: news | Posted by Avatar Staff 258 days ago
Via: http://www.infoworld.com | Tags: top hacks hacks ballmer yahoo olpc woes comments Discuss  
This week those nasty JavaScript attacks that besieged thousands of Web sites from January until March started back up again, with the hackers setting up shop at a Chinese IP address. Meanwhile, security officials in China expressed worries that computer systems there will be hacked during the Olympics in August, even as hackers went after the CNN site and defaced a sports page with a message that Tibet is part of China, now and forever. read more »
addto Add this link to... report Bury 
Category: news | Posted by Avatar Staff 226 days ago
Via: http://www.infoworld.com | Tags: top eu security agency calls policing social network comments Discuss  
Europe's top Internet security agency, ENISA, called Tuesday for new legislation to police social networking sites such as Facebook and MySpace. read more »
addto Add this link to... report Bury 
Category: news | Posted by Avatar Staff 167 days ago
Via: http://www.infoworld.com | Tags: top crimefilled week land comments Discuss  
In an unusual week for IT news, headlines were dominated by alleged crime, actual crime and crime that could be in the offing. read more »
addto Add this link to... report Bury 
Category: news | Posted by Avatar Staff 160 days ago
Via: http://www.infoworld.com | Tags: top security midori terry childs comments Discuss  
Security news dominated this week, and that will undoubtedly be the case next week as well, with the Black Hat and Defcon conferences under way in Las Vegas. In other news, Microsoft announced its vision for a post-Windows OS, and the case of the rogue San Francisco admin kept getting more odd. read more »
addto Add this link to... report Bury 
Category: blogs | Posted by Avatar Staff 125 days ago
Via: https://forums.symantec.com | Tags: top data protection myths comments Discuss  
Plenty has been said about the challenges that exist today for IT and data center managers. I will spare you the typical descriptions about the increase in mission-critical data, plain old exploding volumes of data, and data distributed across a dispersed workforce. We're all well aware of these issues. read more »
addto Add this link to... report Bury 
Category: news | Posted by Avatar Staff 125 days ago
Via: http://www.infoworld.com | Tags: top browser war redux patch time virtualization news comments Discuss  
Google garnered headlines all week with its new Chrome browser. Rival Microsoft announced it will release just four patches next Tuesday, but that may not be cause to think the day will be an easy one for those responsible for keeping systems patched. On the virtualization front, HP launched a product-and-services blitz this week, while VMware picked up a Microsoft certification. Otherwise, a warning was issued about new trickery from spammers, and in case we all weren't aware of it by now, social-netw read more »
addto Add this link to... report Bury 
Category: blogs | Posted by Avatar Staff 118 days ago
Via: https://forums.symantec.com | Tags: top data protection myths myth comments Discuss  
In Myth #2 we talked about granular recovery as a main driver for implementing disk into the backup infrastructure - and a good way to help IT meet today's RPOs and RTOs. As I mentioned, granular level recovery is one technology that enables IT meet those RTOs and RPOs. However, I didn't talk about some of the perceived challenges of granular level recovery, so I'd like to debunk the myth that it takes too long to restore data at this level. read more »
addto Add this link to... report Bury 
Category: blogs | Posted by Avatar Staff 118 days ago
Via: https://forums.symantec.com | Tags: top data protection myths myth comments Discuss  
Upgrading your data protection software is generally perceived as a painful process among the IT crowd. At the same time, that crowd is seeing the need to upgrade. Gartner research from July 2008 proved this. In a survey of 70 IT managers, 66% of respondents said they were planning read more »
addto Add this link to... report Bury