Shoppers and retailers aren’t the only ones gearing up for the holidays. Criminals are out in full force with plenty of scams to separate you and your money
Originally posted at Safe and Secure
By Larry Magid
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
ORLANDO, Fla.–OK, IT managers, it’s time to loosen up.
That’s how analysts advised Gartner Symposium attendees here Monday, arguing that corporate computing departments shouldn’t block social networking and that security shouldn’t completely lock down communications with the outside world. And even if information technology authorities want to shut down such activity, they can’t.
“Banning access to social media from the corporate network is futile,” said Carol Rozwell, a Gartner vice president. “The world we live in is digitally enabled and socially connected.”
The advice reflects the transformation of the information technology world as the Internet steadily pervades more and more corners of everybody’s life. Although the Gartner event historically has concerned itself with matters such as justifying the expense of a new enterprise resource management computing system, the broadening show reflects the growing scope of
