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BYOD oops: IBM bans Apple Siri

Posted May 23, 2012 - 9:57 am

IBM has a Bring Your Own Device policy, but says no to Siri because all questions and answers are stored offsite.
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BYOD oops: IBM bans Apple Siri

Posted May 23, 2012 - 9:57 am

IBM has a Bring Your Own Device policy, but says no to Siri because all questions and answers are stored offsite.
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Some HBO on DirecTV customers SOL with new DRM

Posted April 20, 2012 - 12:13 pm

Paying for DirecTV and their HBO package? Can you still watch HBO shows? Lucky you.
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Apple finally ups data protection for users

Posted February 16, 2012 - 12:43 pm

After an embarrassing week of data abuse stories, Apple finally clamps down on app data permissions.
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Pickpocketing Google Wallet on Android phones

Posted February 10, 2012 - 11:42 am

Simple, non-tech hack opens Google Wallet giving full access to phone funds.
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Corporates struggle to secure employee mobile devices

Posted January 19, 2012 - 10:45 am

The number of employee-owned mobile devices used on corporate networks continues its inexorable rise despite yawning and known gaps in security, a Check Point survey has found.
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HTC phone update reportedly drops Carrier IQ software

Posted January 18, 2012 - 4:00 pm

Carrier IQ's performance monitoring software has been deleted from the latest firmware update for the HTC EVO 3D smartphone, at the behest of Sprint, according to a post at AndroidCentral. Many more could follow.
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Indian court refuses to direct Election Commission on paper records on EVMs

Posted January 17, 2012 - 9:52 am

A court in Delhi on Tuesday declined to direct India's Election Commission to have paper receipts of votes recorded on electronic voting machines (EVMs), or go back to ballot paper.
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LAPD drops Google Apps plan

Posted January 13, 2012 - 4:26 pm

After more than two years of work, the city of Los Angeles has abandoned its effort to migrate its police operations to Google's hosted email and office application platform because it says the service cannot meet FBI security requirements. Insider (registration required)
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Oracle to issue 78 patches, including 27 for MySQL

Posted January 13, 2012 - 12:46 pm

Oracle is set on Tuesday to release 78 security fixes for vulnerabilities in its database, middleware and applications, according to a preview announcement posted to the company's website this week.
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Android insecurity a myth, Motorola exec says

Posted January 13, 2012 - 7:29 am

It's a myth that Android isn't secure and is difficult for IT managers to control, contended a top Motorola Mobile executive in an interview at the Consumer Electronics Show.
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IBM software eases role-based security operations

Posted January 12, 2012 - 9:50 pm

IBM this week announced an identity-management analytics tool that eases what can be a tedious job for information-technology managers -- defining roles for employees in order to establish policy-based access to a network and application resources.
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Cisco sending enterprises to the cloud

Posted January 12, 2012 - 5:27 pm

In an effort to accommodate enterprise users looking to implement private and hybrid clouds, Cisco in the coming months will unveil an "integrated" WAN routing system of existing, but enhanced, products.
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Lawsuit claims Symantec sells scareware-like products

Posted January 11, 2012 - 2:29 pm

Symantec has been accused in a lawsuit of California's unfair competition laws and fraudulent inducement by using scareware-like tactics to trick users into buying licenses for its PC utility-type products.
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Anti-SOPA crew woos gaming giant Electronic Arts

Posted January 10, 2012 - 11:28 am

A new petition on Change.org, whose previous petitions have brought about policy reversals at Bank of America and Verizon regarding proposed new fees, is urging gaming powerhouse Electronic Arts to oppose the Stop Online Piracy Act.
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Oracle's latest Java moves frustrate users and vendors

Posted January 10, 2012 - 7:24 am

The company is under fire for modularization, licensing, and security issues
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US Commission probing if India intercepted its emails

Posted January 9, 2012 - 11:41 pm

The U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission (USCC) has asked for an investigation after hackers posted online a memo purportedly from India's military, which claimed that the country had intercepted emails of USCC officials with the help of Nokia, Research In Motion, and Apple.
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E-voting machine freezes, misreads votes, U.S. agency says

Posted January 6, 2012 - 7:23 am

An electronic ballot scanning device set for use in this year's presidential elections, misreads ballots, fails to log critical events and is prone to freezes and sudden lockups, the U.S. Elections Assistance Commission found.
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Symantec investigates possible leak of Norton AntiVirus source code

Posted January 5, 2012 - 6:31 pm

Symantec is investigating claims by a group of hackers that they are in possession of source code for its Norton AntiVirus (NAV) product.
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Could cost pressures undermine data protection?

Posted January 4, 2012 - 4:10 am

Data protection and freedom of information are under threat from the continuing economic recession, according to the Information Commissioner's Office - which has published its strategy for the coming year and beyond.
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CIOs disconnected from business execs

Posted January 3, 2012 - 4:59 pm

CIOs and their fellow executives have conflicting priorities on cost and competitors, says our 2012 State of the CIO survey.
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Flaw in web app frameworks pushes Microsoft to patch ASP.net promptly

Posted December 29, 2011 - 9:37 am

Many web app frameworks are vulnerable to a denial-of-service attack targeting the way they handle hash tables, researchers revealed Wednesday, prompting Microsoft to announce an "out-of-band" patch for its ASP.NET platform just hours later.
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Wi-Fi Protected Setup flaws make wireless network brute-force attacks feasible

Posted December 29, 2011 - 7:02 am

Design flaws in the Wi-Fi Protected Setup (WPS) wireless standard can make it easier for attackers to obtain access codes for secured wireless networks by brute force.
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Naval researchers pioneer TCP-based spam detection

Posted December 23, 2011 - 5:39 pm

A group of researchers from the U.S. Naval Academy has developed a technique for analyzing email traffic in real-time to identify spam messages as they come across the wire, simply using information from the TCP (Transmission Control Protocol) packets that carry the messages.
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Windows 8 picture password is 'Fisher-Price toy' says father of 2-factor authentication

Posted December 22, 2011 - 4:29 pm

The Windows 8 feature that logs users in if they touch certain points in a photo in the right order might be fun, but it's not very good security, according to the inventor of RSA's SecurID token.
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