Robert Lemos - Author - Good Gear Guide

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Article | 6/10/2011 Android's big security flaw, and why only Google can fix it

In August 2010, hackers bent on jailbreaking Android smartphones found a vulnerability in the way the Android debugger handled an overwhelming number ...

Article | 6/06/2011 Apple iOS: Why it's the most secure OS, period

In June 2007, Apple released the iPhone, and the device quickly took off to become a major brand in the smartphone market. Yet when the iPhone shipped...

Article | 14/05/2011 Zeus leaks give tools to researchers, attackers

The source code and a manual to the popular crimeware creation kit Zeus has been leaked, perhaps giving defenders additional tools to fight infections...

Article | 5/05/2011 How we moved almost everything to the Cloud: 5 lessons

Companies that move to the cloud have a whole host of decisions, one of the first being whether to develop their own software on top of a cloud infras...

Article | 9/03/2011 DroidDream turns Androids into zombies

The malicious code that led Google to remove more than 50 Trojan applications from the Android Marketplace appears to mainly be a "dropper" -- a progr...

Article | 9/09/2010 When clouds attack: 5 ways providers can improve security

Criminals intent on attacking others can lease networks of compromised computers, or botnets, from other criminals serving the underground community. ...

Article | 2/03/2010 Modular data centres: a fast, secretive option spreads

When Australian firm WesTrac needed to expand its data center capacity quickly, the company bought the equivalent of a Band-Aid for its server needs: ...

Article | 24/11/2009 Data Center Lessons from the Online Gaming World

In June, Iceland-based CCP Games brought the hammer down on a group of resource hogs that were clogging its data center.