Google Dashboard is putting personal data in the hands of users, but most of us won’t care enough to exercise this control.
Originally posted at The Open Road
By Matt Asay
Nokia and SAP are forming a new company that will use their technologies to help manufacturers battle counterfeit products.
Announced Tuesday at SAP TechEd in Vienna, Original 1 will offer services to better authenticate branded products and protect them from counterfeiting, the companies said in a statement. Offering software as a …
Microsoft on Wednesday said it is fixing a bug in Bing that allowed spammers to bypass spam filters and distribute malicious links.
Researchers at Webroot Software discovered a spam campaign earlier this week that used the search engine’s own redirection mechanism and a link-shrinking technique to send people to …
Originally posted at InSecurity Complex
By Elinor Mills
Imagine your laptop gets stolen. Wouldn’t it be great to remotely spy on the machine and get it back?
Clair Fleener, chief executive of IT outsourcer InertLogic, got that chance after a laptop belonging to a customer was stolen.
Fleener was instrumental in the investigation that led to the …
Originally posted at InSecurity Complex
By Elinor Mills
Eugene Kaspersky once told a competitor to his face: “I will eat you.”
The co-founder and CEO of Kaspersky Lab was certainly not into cannibalism, but was hell-bent on winning over the majority market share his competitor had in the company’s base in Russia.
By Vivian Yeo
