IT Management

Service companies all kinds change the terms of agreements covering cell service, Internet access, cable TV. All have to ask customers first and admit there's a change. Now Facebook, finally, may do the same.

The FLOSS community is in a unique position to help people around the world. Have we lost focus on this?

Law enforcement agencies are increasing surveillance programs that tracked tens of thousands via cell-phone GPS, but their demands don't stop with just knowing where you are. They're taking your call logs, too.

DARPA held a conference this week explicitly asking hackers to show up and share ideas of how to secure .gov and .mil systems. It may not have gotten many ideas, but did plant a few seeds with more than just hackers.

Anti-fraud firm Trusteer warns that spear phishers have expanded their repertoire by faking IDs in phone calls to get data they need to either hook a phish, or maneuver past obstacles using malware that's already planted.

Microsoft continues to be involved in free and open source projects. Given the long history of enmity, how should the community react?

If you want to learn about a country, there's no replacement for talking to its people. Unless you're CIA and they won't talk. They do talk to each other social nets, though, and one CIA group has been set up just to listen.

As debates about different Linux interfaces rage, are we missing a bigger problem?

The volume of malware on the 'net is growing faster than anyone thought. But the number of viruses isn't the story. The real danger is the new focus on selling stolen access to sensitive sites, not just data.

Experts disagree if the new Duqu remote access kit is the tool of a national intelligence agency or just a virus. It's possible the data-thieving, super-smart, oh-so-subtle virus is purely criminal, which would completely change the way we think about digital industrial espionage.

The Fedora Project is proposing a plan that will drastically change the way this filesystem hierarchy stores binary applications... if they can work out the potential kinks.

Symantec released a report today with an unusually detailed description of the forensic investigation and trackback to the source of a series of espionage attacks on chemical companies involved in the defense industry. Suspect responds, 'Who, me?'