| 2/9/2010 | Protectionism Worries Indian Outsourcers
India's leading software trade body said on Tuesday that protectionism in key markets could affect the growth prospects of the country's outsourcing industry.
Although market conditions are... Read On
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| 2/9/2010 | Toyota to Recall Prius Hybrids Over ABS Software
Toyota plans to recall around 400,000 of its Prius hybrid cars to replace software that controls the antilock braking system (ABS), the auto maker said Tuesday.
The global recall is in... Read On
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| 2/8/2010 | China Heralds Bust of Major Hacker Ring
China heralded a major bust of computer hackers to underscore its pledge to help enhance global online security, with state media saying officials had shut what they called the country's largest... Read On
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| 2/8/2010 | Google Analyst: U.S. Internet Needs to Get Faster
Google long has been an advocate of a single Web, one that's free of government censorship and barriers to information access.
That's not the reality in today's world... Read On
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| 2/8/2010 | Bundling Hardware and Software to Do Big Jobs
In data-center computing, the big trend today is to move from building blocks to bundles.
Suppliers are offering customers assembled bundles of hardware and software to make it easier and... Read On
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| 2/5/2010 | If You're Going to Do Good Science, Release the Computer Code Too
Programs do more and more scientific work - but you need to be able to check them as well as the original data, as the recent row over climate change documentation shows.
One of the spinoffs... Read On
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| 2/5/2010 | Hacker Attacks Ceridian; Data from 27,000 at Risk
A hacker attack at payroll processing firm Ceridian Corp. of Bloomington has potentially revealed the names, Social Security numbers, and, in some cases, the birth dates and bank accounts of 27,000... Read On
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| 2/5/2010 | Microsoft Warns of Record Patch Tuesday
Microsoft issued its Microsoft Security Bulletin Advance Notification for February 2010 yesterday. The notice warns that Patch Tuesday next week will see 13 security bulletins, tying October 2009 for... Read On
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| 2/4/2010 | IE6 Users to Be Evicted From Gmail, Google Calendar
Late last week, Google announced it will phase out old browser support next month on Google Docs and Google Sites. The search giant also sent out an e-mail to Google Apps administrators to warn them... Read On
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| 2/4/2010 | Symbian Phone Operating System Goes Open Source
The group behind the world's most popular smartphone operating system--Symbian---is giving away "billions of dollars" worth of code for free.
The Symbian Foundation's announced that it would... Read On
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| 2/3/2010 | PRESS RELEASE: SmarteSoft Beats the 2009 Recession, Grows Over 100 Percent
AUSTIN, TX—SmarteSoft, Inc., the industry leader for easy to use, rapid-development software test automation products and services, is pleased to announce another record-breaking year in company... Read On
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| 2/3/2010 | PRESS RELEASE: Parasoft Unveils Runtime Memory Analysis to Increase Team Productivity and C and C++ Software Quality
Monrovia, CA (February 3, 2010)—Parasoft Corporation, leading provider of automated solutions that improve software quality and the development process, today announced the new... Read On
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| 2/3/2010 | Microsoft Office 2010 Release Candidate Offered to Select Group
Microsoft confirmed that it would offer the Release Candidate of Office 2010 to a select group of testers enrolled in its technology adoption program (TAP) ahead of the productivity suite’s general... Read On
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| 2/3/2010 | Twitter Smells a Password-Snatching Rat
Twitter has sounded the alarm on a possible scam to steal user log-on information. It appears that users of various torrent download sites had their names and passwords swiped, and that log-on combo... Read On
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| 2/3/2010 | Don't Forget Who's Behind a Cyberattack
Many would argue, and understandably so, that government agencies aren't role models for corporations on how to improve their bottom lines. But federal agencies do hold a leadership position in... Read On
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| 2/2/2010 | Botnet Sends Fake SSL Pings to CIA, PayPal, Others
In attempt to hide the location of its command-and-control server, the Pushdo botnet has been instructing its infected zombie computers to send fake SSL (Secure Sockets Layer) connections to major... Read On
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| 2/2/2010 | Network Attacks on Facebook, Twitter Tripled in 2009
As more organizations allow employees to use social media like Facebook and Twitter at work, cybercrime attacks on these networks have exploded, according to a report released Monday by IT security... Read On
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| 2/2/2010 | Android Apps for Business Users
The BlackBerry may be the most popular phone in businesses today, but the openness of the Google Android platform is attractive too. Most of the big-name apps from the iPhone world are now available... Read On
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| 2/1/2010 | Chrome Snatches Share from IE, Firefox
Google's Chrome gained browser market share in January at the expense of both Microsoft's Internet Explorer and IE's biggest rival, Mozilla's Firefox, according to data published... Read On
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| 2/1/2010 | Deadline Looms for Google Books Deal
Amazon has urged a New York court to reject a deal that would allow Google to build a vast digital library.
The online retailer says that if Google is given exclusive rights to scan books... Read On
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| 2/1/2010 | Hackers Using Automation, Geolocation in Social Networking Attacks
Attackers have been focusing a lot of attention on social networking destinations such as Facebook, Twitter and even LinkedIn for some time now, but they recently have begun shifting their tactics to... Read On
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| 1/29/2010 | New EU Privacy Laws Could Hit Facebook
Two weeks ago, Mark Zuckerberg, the founder of social networking site Facebook, told the world to just get over it—no one cares about privacy anymore—provoking a storm of protest across... Read On
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| 1/29/2010 | Google Seeks Change in China Censorship
Google Inc. Chief Executive Eric Schmidt Friday defended his company's recent decision to stop obeying government censorship rules on its Chinese search site.
"We like what China is doing in... Read On
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| 1/29/2010 | Scammers Exploit Apple iPad Fever
Cyber conmen are cashing in on hype surrounding Apple's iPad.
Security firms have come across attempts to subvert search engines to catch out those seeking more information about the... Read On
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| 1/28/2010 | PRESS RELEASE: Bamboo Solutions Launches BambooRM
RESTON, Virginia—Bamboo® Solutions, provider of technologies that enhance Microsoft® SharePoint®, announced today that it is launching BambooRM™, a revolutionary SaaS-based requirements management... Read On
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| 1/28/2010 | Apple Releases iPad SDK In Beta
In announcing the long-awaited iPad Wednesday, Apple released in beta the software development kit needed to build applications for the tablet computer.
The SDK is an upgrade of the current... Read On
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| 1/28/2010 | Google Expands Social Search Test
Google's Social Search service, which includes public content from users' social networks in search results, is getting promoted to Google.com from the company's Labs site, meaning it is no longer... Read On
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| 1/27/2010 | Second US Man Admits DDoS Attack on Scientology
A Nebraska man has admitted he participated in a mass attack last year that briefly brought the Church of Scientology's website to its knees.
In a plea agreement signed Friday, Brian Thomas... Read On
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| 1/26/2010 | IPhone Hacker Says He's Also Cracked PlayStation 3
The 20-year-old hacker best known for cracking Apple's iPhone says he's done it again, this time with Sony's PlayStation 3.
In a Friday blog post, George Hotz said that after a five-week... Read On
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| 1/26/2010 | Extensions Give Chrome a Lift as Version 4 Arrives
Google has announced the official release on Windows of Chrome 4, an updated version of the company's Web browser. It offers a handful of significant improvements, including support for extensions... Read On
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| 1/26/2010 | Pope Asks Priests to Become More Web Savvy
The pope is asking priests to become more media savvy by preaching to the faithful from the Internet as well as the pulpit.
In his message for the Catholic Church's 2010 World Day for Social... Read On
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| 1/25/2010 | Data Breaches Get Costlier
The cost of a data breach increased last year to $204 per compromised customer record, according to the Ponemon Institute's annual study. The average total cost of a data breach rose from $6.65... Read On
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| 1/25/2010 | China Rebukes U.S. Calls to Investigate Hacking
China delivered a bristling response on Monday to the United States’ demand that it investigate recent attacks on American computers from Chinese soil, saying that any suggestion that it conducted or... Read On
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| 1/25/2010 | Google's Nexus One Doesn't Like Your Potty Mouth
One of the most innovative features of Google's new Nexus One is the built-in voice recognition. But there's one major limitation that Reuters discovered while putting the smartphone through its... Read On
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| 1/22/2010 | Users Still Make Hacking Easy with Weak Passwords
In a report likely to make IT administrators tear out their hair, most users still rely on easy passwords, some as simple as "123456," to access their accounts.
A report released today by... Read On
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| 1/22/2010 | Facebook Building First Custom Data Center
Facebook Thursday announced that it is building its first custom data center, a facility in Oregon that will help the social networking site maintain performance levels for its growing legion of... Read On
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| 1/22/2010 | Astronaut Sends First Live Tweets from Space
You really can't escape Twitter. Even in space.
NASA astronaut T.J. Creamer, on board the International Space Station, made social-media history Friday morning when he became the first... Read On
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| 1/21/2010 | Microsoft Urges Cloud-computing Privacy Bill
Brad Smith, Microsoft's general counsel, on Wednesday urged Congress to introduce a bill that would address privacy and security issues associated with cloud computing.
Smith also unveiled a... Read On
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| 1/21/2010 | Apple Courts Publishers, While Kindle Adds Apps
It’s a formidable high-tech face-off: Amazon.com versus Apple for the hearts and minds of book publishers, authors and readers.
Amazon’s Kindle devices and electronic bookstore now dominate... Read On
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| 1/20/2010 | Google Attack Puts Spotlight on China's 'Red' Hackers
They are cloaked by pseudonyms and multiple addresses, but China's legions of hackers were thrust into the spotlight last week after Google said it suffered a sophisticated cyber-attack emanating... Read On
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| 1/20/2010 | Computer Virus Shuts Down Exeter University System
The entire computer network at Exeter University had to be closed down after it was hit by a virus attack.
Hundreds of computers were taken offline and lecturers were forced to give up... Read On
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| 1/20/2010 | Microsoft to Patch Hole in Internet Explorer
Microsoft will patch a hole in its Internet Explorer browser that may have allowed Chinese hackers access to human rights activists' e-mail accounts.
The firm normally issues patches at a... Read On
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| 1/20/2010 | PRESS RELEASE: Free Software Testing Event
Zappers the software testing community (formerly know as P.E.S.T), started by TCL will be hosting an event in The Royal Orchid Central, 47 Dickenson Road, Manipal Centre in Bangalore-42 on February... Read On
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| 1/19/2010 | PRESS RELEASE: Seapine Software Offers End-to-End Application Lifecycle Management Solution
Cincinnati, OH—Seapine Software, a leading global provider of quality-centric application lifecycle management (ALM) solutions, announced today that its 2010 product releases enable organizations to... Read On
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| 1/19/2010 | Researchers Up Ante, Create Exploits for IE7, IE8
Researchers have created attack code that exploits a zero-day vulnerability in Internet Explorer 7 (IE7) as well as in the newest IE8 -- even when Microsoft's recommended defensive measure is turned... Read On
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| 1/19/2010 | Software Firms Fear Hackers Who Leave No Trace
The crown jewels of Google, Cisco Systems or any other technology company are the millions of lines of programming instructions, known as source code, that make its products run.
If hackers... Read On
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| 1/18/2010 | France Joins Germany Warning Against Internet Explorer
France has echoed calls by the German government for web users to find an alternative to Microsoft's Internet Explorer (IE) to protect security.
Certa, a government agency that oversees... Read On
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| 1/18/2010 | Gmail of Foreign Journalists in China Hijacked
The Gmail accounts of foreign reporters in at least two news bureaus in Beijing have been hijacked, a journalists' group in China said Monday.
The news comes just one week after Google said... Read On
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| 1/15/2010 | FCC Looks at Ways to Assert Authority Over Web Access
The Federal Communications Commission is considering aggressive moves to stake out its authority to oversee consumer access to the Internet, as a recent court hearing and industry opposition have... Read On
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| 1/15/2010 | To Avoid Haitian Disaster Relief Scams, Watch Out for Virus-laden Pages, Fake Charity Sites and Emails
The earthquake in Haiti brought a new round of disaster relief scams.
Scores of Web sites seeking donations for victims popped up overnight after the quake, according to the Better Business... Read On
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| 1/15/2010 | Facebook Teams Up with McAfee to Prevent Cyber Hacking
Facebook users will now get a free virus cleanup of their computers, if their accounts have been hacked into, before they return to the social networking website.
The move aims at reducing... Read On
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| 1/14/2010 | PRESS RELEASE: Concerity Eliminates Guesswork for Software Companies
SALT LAKE CITY—Concerity™ today announced the free beta launch of Concerity Analytics™, a new type of integrated toolkit designed specifically to help software companies measure real-world usage of... Read On
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| 1/14/2010 | Cyberwar Breaks Out as Iranians Hack Into Chinese Search Engine
An unlikely cyberwar broke out yesterday when Iranian hackers attacked China's leading search engine and Chinese counterparts retaliated against Iranian websites.
In the morning, people... Read On
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| 1/14/2010 | New IE Hole Exploited in Attacks on U.S. Firms
Attackers targeting Google and a host of other U.S. companies recently used software that exploits a new hole in Internet Explorer, Microsoft said on Thursday.
"Internet Explorer was one of... Read On
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| 1/14/2010 | HP, Microsoft Team Up to Tackle the Cloud
Some of the biggest companies in computing are forging new alliances in hopes that together they'll benefit from a rebound in technology spending. A big area of demand is the emerging field of cloud... Read On
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| 1/13/2010 | Google Docs Adds Cloud Storage For Any File
Forgot that file on your work computer again? Leave an Excel spreadsheet you need for a presentation on your home laptop? Google on Tuesday introduced a service that will let you upload any type of... Read On
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| 1/13/2010 | Adobe Patches PDF Zero-day, Other Critical Bugs
Adobe late Tuesday patched eight security vulnerabilities, six of them critical, in its popular PDF viewing and editing programs.
Security experts urged consumers and corporate IT... Read On
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| 1/12/2010 | Fishy Android Apps May Have Been Malware, Says Researcher
Suspicious applications that may have stolen users' online banking credentials have appeared on the Android Market, the Google-run app store for its mobile operating system.
Although the... Read On
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| 1/12/2010 | Politicians Say Maryland Is Ripe for Cybersecurity Industry
On Monday, Democratic members of Maryland's congressional delegation and Gov. Martin O'Malley (D) launched perhaps the most coordinated effort since their party took control of the White House to... Read On
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| 1/11/2010 | 'Google' Wins Top Word of Nameless Decade
Chances are, in the past year, you read a blog about a bank bailout, a balloon boy and a beer summit.
And you may have been inundated with tweets about mini-Madoffs, Climategate and... Read On
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| 1/11/2010 | Facebook CEO: Privacy Not the 'Social Norm'
Online privacy is no longer the "social norm" as users of social networking sites like Facebook become more comfortable sharing information on the Internet, Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg said this... Read On
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| 1/11/2010 | This Will Be The Year Adobe's 2 Million Flash Developers Come To The iPhone
It’s no secret that Apple doesn’t like Flash. It won’t allow Flash apps to run on the iPhone or iPod Touch despite all of Adobe’s cajoling and pleading, and despite the fact that it’s long been... Read On
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