Thieves use victims’ SIM cards to hack into online banking

Boston-based Web security firm Trusteer has uncovered a new scheme to raid online bank accounts.Trusteer, whose clients includeING Direct, CIBC and other globalfinancial giants, previously deciphered attacks in which criminalsactually changed victims' mobile

Share on LinkedIn Comment on this article Share with Google+ Published on: March 13th, 2012 ITBusiness Staff

First look at Mozilla’s Web-based smartphone

Mozilla managed to avoid using any parts of Android in the development of its Boot-to-Gecko mobile Web project. This week at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, Mozilla announced that Telefonica and Deutsche Telekom plan to build

Share on LinkedIn Comment on this article Share with Google+ Published on: February 29th, 2012 Nancy Gohring

How to monitor your business with mobile apps

If you have an office or a retail store, you may also have a security system that to alert you and the police in case of a break-in--or a webcam set up to

Share on LinkedIn Comment on this article Share with Google+ Published on: February 17th, 2012 Angela West

Firefox’s plan to catch Chrome in 2012

The Mozilla Foundation has big plans for Firefox in 2012 that can be summarized in two words: Google Chrome. That's not to say the Firefox browser won't have some unique features, such as

Share on LinkedIn Comment on this article Share with Google+ Published on: February 13th, 2012 Ian Paul

Site helps Canadian startups sort through the financing maze

A new national Web site listing over 12,000 funding sources is trying to help Canadian entrepreneurs find the proverbial needle in the startup capital haystack.Montreal-based Fundica.comis a comprehensive online catalogue of government and

Share on LinkedIn Comment on this article Share with Google+ Published on: December 15th, 2011 Christine Wong

How HoHoTO turned crowdsourcing into a cause

By Shane Schick Startups know what it means to be hungry. They tend to be launched by people who work extremely hard for what are sometimes small dividends, at least initially. They have

Share on LinkedIn Comment on this article Share with Google+ Published on: December 14th, 2011 Shane Shick

True Voice offers click-to-call service

Doug Moffat was seeking a way to help the visually impaired and physically disabled to browse the Web when he started down the path that led to his startup, True Voice Technologies Inc.Moffat

Share on LinkedIn Comment on this article Share with Google+ Published on: December 7th, 2011 Brian Jackson

Fake FireFox 7 site ranks high in search results

If you're using a search engine today to find a download of Firefox 7, be careful about the results you click on. That's because a dubious Web site called Firefox7.org appears high up

Share on LinkedIn Comment on this article Share with Google+ Published on: September 29th, 2011 John P. Mello Jr.

Will Windows 8 be the end of Flash?

Microsoft appears to be taking a page out of Apple's play book saying it will dump plug-ins such as Adobe Flash from Internet Explorer 10 in Windows 8. Well, sort of.You'll still be

Share on LinkedIn Comment on this article Share with Google+ Published on: September 16th, 2011 Ian Paul

5 tips for secure cloud computing

By David Ridout    Risks of the cloud have recently become an issue with well-publicized failures in popular public cloud services.   Organizations are thus under more pressure than ever to evaluate their management

Share on LinkedIn Comment on this article Share with Google+ Published on: August 30th, 2011 ITBusiness Staff

IBM 5150: Can this 30-year-old PC still get work done?

When IBM released its first personal computer, the 5150, 30 years ago, it was deliberately drab--black, gray, and low-key. That's because IBM intended the 5150 to be a serious machine for people doing

Share on LinkedIn Comment on this article Share with Google+ Published on: August 15th, 2011 Benj Edwards

Kindle Cloud Reader doesn’t quite beat native app performance

Amazon's new Kindle Cloud Reader, announced Wednesday and available now at read.amazon.com, is a Web-based interface to Amazon's Kindle ebook store, complete with the ability to read books within a web browser. Using

Share on LinkedIn Comment on this article Share with Google+ Published on: August 12th, 2011 Jason Snell

The basics of Web security

Danger lurks behind every corner on the Web: phishing, fake Web sites, stolen digital identities-it's all right there on the Internet, waiting for unwary users to lower their guard and be taken for

Share on LinkedIn Comment on this article Share with Google+ Published on: April 14th, 2011 Marco Tabini

Mozilla Firefox 4 makes quantum leap in browsing speeds

Mozilla Firefox's flashy features often bogged down its performance--until now. Though it's still not quite as fast overall as rivals Safari 5 ( Macworld rated 4.5 out of 5 mice ) and Chrome,

Share on LinkedIn Comment on this article Share with Google+ Published on: April 7th, 2011 Nathan Alderman