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  • Article | 19/01/2011 ClamAV promises free antivirus app for businesses
    Most of us don't like paying for antivirus (AV) software, but at least home users can rely on one of the free options, such as Microsoft Security Esse...
  • Article | 14/01/2011 With thick skin, Google CIO finds job rewarding
    When Ben Fried left his post as IT managing director at Morgan Stanley and took over as Google's CIO in May 2008, he knew what he was getting into: su...
  • Article | 12/01/2011 Patch Tuesday defined by the flaws that aren't fixed
    Microsoft is easing in to 2011 with a light Patch Tuesday for January. There are only two security bulletins this month, and only one of those two is ...
  • Article | 11/01/2011 Top 10 tech scares of the decade
    The dawn of the new millennium prompted fears about the future, but so far reality has not quite matched the predictions of catastrophe. The first ten...
  • Article | 8/01/2011 Text message of 'death' threatens smartphone security
    Security researchers have shown that carefully crafted text messages sent to cell phones via short message service (SMS) can cause them to shutdown wi...
  • Article | 5/01/2011 The day of the password is done
    When the popular Web site Gawker was hacked into recently, more than a million user IDs and passwords were released. If you were one of the people com...
  • Article | 30/11/2010 Free vs. fee: Free, paid antivirus programs
    Depending on whom you ask, paying for antivirus software is either a good investment or a total ripoff. In reality, neither viewpoint is accurate. Yo...
  • Article | 14/12/2010 YouTube 2010 'top videos' list ruled by music
    If YouTube started as a place for people to upload low-res videos, Google's global 2010 'most popular' video list shows just how fast the model is evo...
  • Article | 14/12/2010 Goodbye Internet, we hardly knew ye?
    This end-of-year article is a looking forward one -- looking forward to a year in which the Internet will be under a multi-pronged attack that threate...
  • Article | 11/12/2010 Something Wiki this way comes
    It's been All WikiLeaks, All the Time here in Cringeville lately. And why not? As I noted last time out, this is the biggest thing to hit the WebberNe...
  • Article | 9/12/2010 WikiLeaks: A case study in Web survivability
    In recent weeks WikiLeaks has been targeted by denial-of-service (DoS) attacks, had its hosting service shutdown, been bounced off of Amazon hosting, ...
  • Article | 12/11/2010 Massive Mac OS X update shatters illusion of security
    Perhaps you've heard that the Apple Mac OS X operating system is simply more secure by design and not prone to the security flaws and vulnerabilities ...
  • Article | 26/10/2010 Burning questions: Virtualisation
    Virtualizing x86 infrastructure isn't just a one-step process -- as servers change, the whole data center must change as well. While server hypervisor...
  • Article | 5/08/2010 A Defcon badge unlike anything you have ever seen
    It's unlike any conference badge you've seen before. Sleek, stylish, programmable, and made out of metal. It's the Defcon 18 conference badge. Unveile...
  • Article | 29/06/2010 The pros and cons of Windows 7 security
    Businesses are eyeing a transition to Microsoft Windows 7, and with a wealth of security features that are part of it, it's worth figuring out the goo...

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