Neocleus - A different take on desktop virtualization   19 May 2008 10:00 GMT
Ariel Gorfung, CEO, Neocleus, and I had a fast paced, interesting discussion about the company's notion of "endpoint virtualization" and how that can change how organizations deploy and use desktop and laptop systems. At first I had trouble really getting to the heart of what they were doing. Their use...
Source: ZDNet

Global Dispatches   19 May 2008 04:23 GMT
Lloyd's TSB is moving the work done by 450 U.K. workers to Indian outsourcers; and a hacker has exposed personal data on some 6 million Chileans.

Source: Computerworld

A Browser for Analytics   19 May 2008 04:23 GMT
Mark Hall reports on the worlds first "data browser," specifically designed for analytics.

Source: Computerworld

You Have to Be Reasonable   19 May 2008 04:23 GMT
Managing security is a matter of balancing security priorities with business realities.

Source: Computerworld

If hackers don't get you, maybe Google will   18 May 2008 21:29 GMT
Two weeks ago my personal blog StorageMojo was hacked. Turns out that Google can be a bigger problem than the hackers. Here's how it works and tips on protecting yourself. "Don't be evil" is a pretty low bar There's been a lot of blog hacking going...
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Redmond Magazine Successfully SQL Injected by Chinese Hacktivists   16 May 2008 22:10 GMT
Irony at its best. It appears that Redmond - The Independent Voice of the Microsoft IT Community, formerly known as Microsoft Certified Professional Magazine is currently flagged as a badware site, and third-party exploit detection tools are also detecting internal pages as exploit hosting ones, in this particular case Mal/Badsrc-A....
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Tom Ilube ponders 'social verification' with FOAF   16 May 2008 20:56 GMT
Writing today in the latest issue of Nodalities Magazine, Garlik CEO Tom Ilube tackles the increasingly fraught subject of Identity Theft before moving past it to consider notions of 'social verification.' Tom's company, Garlik, offers a product called DataPatrol that helps UK consumers track information about themselves...
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McAfee's HackerSafe: "Um... we go in like a super hacker"   16 May 2008 17:45 GMT
God is good and created YouTube for laughs and giggles on Friday, and I couldn't help myself at taking a good chuckle at this.  I saw this youtube video posting which is an episode of "Web Marketing Watch" with Sage Lewis, who interview Cresta Pillsbury of ScanAlert, which has since been...
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News to know: XP meets XO; Yahoo; Facebook; Verdiem; DIY phishing   16 May 2008 10:52 GMT
Notable headlines: Mary Jo Foley: It's finally official: XP is coming to the XO. Christopher Dawson: Sugar-free Windows, as predicted Microsoft cuts backup from Windows Home Server PowerPack Larry Dignan: Icahn launches Yahoo proxy fight; Mark Cuban's return?...
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WhitePages.com grapples with privacy in a Web 2.0 world   16 May 2008 04:56 GMT
Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols takes a look at how a simple concept like privacy gets complicated fast when development, authentication and millions of users enter the mix.

Source: Computerworld