Security vendor Trend Micro victim of massive Web attack

Security vendor Trend Micro has fallen victim to a widespread Web attack that splashed malicious software onto hundreds of legitimate Web sites in recent days.A Trend Micro spokesman confirmed that the company's site

Share on LinkedIn Comment on this article Share with Google+ Published on: March 17th, 2008 Robert McMillan

Good SMB e-mail options at a great price

E-mail: Can't live without it, can't stand the hassles. Is it any wonder many people rely on Instant Messaging for co-worker communications?But old habits die hard, and IM doesn't fit the work styles

Share on LinkedIn Comment on this article Share with Google+ Published on: March 11th, 2008 James E. Gaskin

Facial recognition software used for national security

Jeff Jonas knows the Las Vegas gambling industry inside and out. As the founder and chief scientist of Systems Research & Development (SRD), Jonas helped build numerous casino systems before 2005 when his

Share on LinkedIn Comment on this article Share with Google+ Published on: March 11th, 2008 Jon Brodkin

Smart ways to secure your mobile workers

The productivity benefits of smart phones and other mobile devices are difficult to ignore, and enterprises will continue to role them out across their workforce. For CIOs and other senior IT personnel the

Share on LinkedIn Comment on this article Share with Google+ Published on: March 10th, 2008 Gareth Maclachlan

Social networking helps three Canadian companies boost productivity, engage employees

The business world seems to be on a constant collision course with new technologies, some of which are beneficial to the organization and some of which are not. Recently, the workplace has been

Share on LinkedIn Comment on this article Share with Google+ Published on: March 10th, 2008 Elizabeth Caley

Clinton, Obama and McCain peddling Viagra online?

Spammers are exploiting the buzz generated by U.S. presidential primaries as a new tactic to attract computer users that might be itching for their "campaign fix", according to a recent report from security

Share on LinkedIn Comment on this article Share with Google+ Published on: March 7th, 2008 Nestor Arellano

‘Mebroot’ is one tough rootkit says F-Secure

A rootkit uncovered in the wild in December is proving to be a real headache to detect, according to Finnish security company F-Secure. Dubbed "Mebroot," the rootkit infects the master boot record (MBR),

Share on LinkedIn Comment on this article Share with Google+ Published on: March 5th, 2008 Jeremy Kirk

As malware multiplies worried executives scramble for new ways to cope

More than ever before, the threat of malware continued to hang over the heads of enterprise executives in 2007. Further proliferation is also a frightening possibility for 2008, according to some industry participants.Malware

Share on LinkedIn Comment on this article Share with Google+ Published on: March 4th, 2008 Jared Heng

What the laptop of the future will look like

Notebook vendors should pay more attention to their enterprise customers, says Gabriel Vitus, IT director of the Vancouver-based Certified General Accountants Association of Canada. "Not only on the big issues, but also on

Share on LinkedIn Comment on this article Share with Google+ Published on: February 28th, 2008 John Edwards

Brand jacking causing huge damage to corporate reputations

Phishers, cyber-squatters, and other online fraudsters continued their assault on well-known corporate brands over the last 12 months, increasing the burden on the companies being targeted and further frustrating consumers.According to MarkMonitor's annual

Share on LinkedIn Comment on this article Share with Google+ Published on: February 27th, 2008 Matt Hines

Old security threats wreak havoc in new apparel

Tights and skinny jeans may be back in style, but so are security threats of yesteryear. A decade ago, a Master Boot Record (MBR) virus could take down your computer. Now, hackers are

Share on LinkedIn Comment on this article Share with Google+ Published on: February 26th, 2008 Vawn Himmelsbach

Why Web 2.0 sites pose a security threat to SMBs

Even as social networking darling Facebook prepares a version of its online networking application aimed specifically at enterprise users, legions of security experts are getting behind the idea that the sites represent a

Share on LinkedIn Comment on this article Share with Google+ Published on: February 25th, 2008 Matt Hines

Disk encryption in Windows, Linux, Apple laptops easily cracked

The disk encryption technology used to secure the data in your Windows, Apple and Linux laptops can be easily circumvented, according to new research out of Princeton University. The flaw in this approach,

Share on LinkedIn Comment on this article Share with Google+ Published on: February 25th, 2008 The Network World Staff

Canadian hacker arrests merely tip of the iceberg, experts say

The recent arrest of 17 hackers in Quebec for running a one million-computer botnet is a grim reminder that businesses should take malware threats seriously, cybercrime experts say.Sûreté du Québec – the Québec

Share on LinkedIn Comment on this article Share with Google+ Published on: February 22nd, 2008 Brian Jackson