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McAfee scans the clouds for security flaws

Tue, 16 Mar 2010 11:05:00 GMT

Cloud Secure to give customers more confidence in cloud provider

McAfee announced a vulnerability-assessment scanning service that's aimed at giving cloud-computing service providers a way to provide security assurances to their customers.

Banks offered tool that searches customer PCs for malware

Tue, 16 Mar 2010 10:15:00 GMT

Trusteer lets bankers remotely investigate account holders

Security vendor Trusteer's latest product will allow banks to remotely investigate their customers' computers if it is suspected the PC has been hacked.

Wales houses mega datacentre

Tue, 16 Mar 2010 08:59:00 GMT

Newport site has room for 19,000 server racks

One of the world's largest data centres has opened for business in the UK, protected by bomb-proof glass and powered by enough electricity to run a small city.

IT industry launches pre-election Technology Manifesto

Mon, 15 Mar 2010 11:35:00 GMT

Aiming to create 250,000 new IT jobs

A new Technology Manifesto has been launched which calls for for the government to create tax incentives to encourage the IT sector in the UK to grow and make 250,000 new IT jobs available over the next 10 years.

IBM - software security vulnerabilities down in 2009

Mon, 15 Mar 2010 10:17:00 GMT

SQL injections and ActiveX exploits show biggest drop

IBM's X-Force 2009 Trend and Risk report shows an 11 per cent drop in discovered vulnerabilities compared to 2008, including a decline in the largest categories like SQL Injections and ActiveX.

Ex Barclays coder goes down for TK Maxx hack

Mon, 15 Mar 2010 10:07:00 GMT

Humza Zaman gets four years for part in hack of TK Maxx parent

A former Barclays Bank programmer who helped launder money for the mastermind behind the data thefts at TJX Companies and other retailers, was sentenced to four years in prison by a federal court in Boston.

Intel funds social media incubator Betaworks

Fri, 12 Mar 2010 08:47:00 GMT

Chip giant wants insight into user behaviour

Intel invested an undisclosed amount in social media incubator Betaworks to gain insight into real-time user behaviour on social networks.

Microsoft targets NetSuite users with new deal

Fri, 12 Mar 2010 08:40:00 GMT

US customers offered an $850 credit for each user who switches to Dynamics

Microsoft is offering financial enticements to customers of on-demand ERP (enterprise resource planning) vendor NetSuite to switch over to Microsoft's Dynamics family of business applications.

Pennsylvania fires CISO over RSA talk

Fri, 12 Mar 2010 05:45:00 GMT

Axed after disclosing security incident at Department of Transportation

Pennsylvania's chief information security officer, Robert Maley, has been fired, apparently for talking publicly at the RSA security conference last week about a recent incident involving the Commonwealth's online driving exam scheduling system.

CA acquires Nimsoft in cloud computing services extention

Thu, 11 Mar 2010 12:46:00 GMT

CA pays $350m for systems monitoring firm

CA continued its shopping spree, agreeing to buy IT management software maker Nimsoft for $350 million.

IDC report datacentre management remains sloppy

Thu, 11 Mar 2010 10:46:00 GMT

Recession drives improvements but still much to do

CIOs and IT directors expect spending on staff in their datacentres to dramatically outstrip the overall growth in IT expenditure this year, according to analyst group IDC.

BlackBerry internet connections drops out for UK users

Thu, 11 Mar 2010 10:45:00 GMT

Wi-Fi enabled mobiles refuse to connect

Some BlackBerry users in North America and the United Kingdom experienced data outages on Monday and Tuesday on Wi-Fi-equipped BlackBerries when not connected to Wi-Fi, according to user groups and some US carriers.

Microsoft loses Word patent battle

Thu, 11 Mar 2010 10:21:00 GMT

US court reaffirms i4i's patent win

The US Federal Court of Appeals has once again upheld a jury's verdict that Microsoft willfully infringed on patents awarded to i4i.

Hackers aim at PDF over Microsoft Word, says F-Secure

Thu, 11 Mar 2010 10:16:00 GMT

Adobe Reader most attacked application

Hackers adore Adobe Reader, and have pushed it into first place as the software most often exploited in targeted attacks, a Finnish security company said today.

Microsoft Bing catching Google

Thu, 11 Mar 2010 10:10:00 GMT

Google remains majority share monster

Microsoft in recent months has slowly boosted its share of the search business, but still remains far behind a so far unbeatable foe in its battle with Google.

VMware and Citrix users targetted by virtual PC start-up

Thu, 11 Mar 2010 10:09:00 GMT

Unidesk enhances VMware View and Citrix XenDesktop rollouts

A virtual desktop start-up Unidesk is aiming to improve deployments of VMware View and Citrix XenDesktop with management software that it says reduces storage costs and gives users a more personalized desktop than the VDI tools by themselves.

Bill Gates slips to second world's richest man

Thu, 11 Mar 2010 09:38:00 GMT

Mexican telecoms tycoon takes top spot

Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates is no longer the world's richest man according to the annual Forbes magazine list, but it's not like he's going to have to go crawling back for his old job either.

CIOs lose confidence in predicting IT budgets

Thu, 11 Mar 2010 06:45:00 GMT

IT spending 'not on the rebound'

The "vast majority" of IT budgets will not grow this year, said analyst house Ovum.

Digital Economy Bill hit by complaints from Facebook, Google and eBay

Thu, 11 Mar 2010 01:00:00 GMT

BT and TalkTalk, add the amendment to the Digital Economy Bill has "obvious shortcomings"

Google, Facebook and eBay are among the tech giants that have slammed the government's plans to tackle internet piracy, claiming it will "threaten freedom of speech".

Trademarks and security delay domain changes at ICANN meeting

Wed, 10 Mar 2010 12:40:00 GMT

Generic top level domains prove contentious issue

Trademark protection, costs and cybersecurity threats are some of the issues likely to derail the introduction of new Internet generic top-level domains, being discussed at a meeting of the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers Board this week in Nairobi.

Europe debates controversial ACTA copyright treaty

Wed, 10 Mar 2010 12:10:00 GMT

MEPs demand talks are open to public scrutiny

European Parliamentarians are set to debate whether to formally oppose an anticounterfeiting trade agreement (ACTA) being negotiated in secret by the European Commission with trading partners including the US, Canada and Japan. However, civil liberties campaigners think the resolution is too weak and won't have the desired effect.

Microsoft patches hit Excel

Wed, 10 Mar 2010 11:41:00 GMT

Redmond giant closes hacker hole

Following a heavy patch month in February, Microsoft announced a lighter load of security bulletins for its users, but security experts say the potential impact is considerable if vulnerabilities aren't addressed.

Sun's open source chief quites in Oracle merger

Wed, 10 Mar 2010 10:05:00 GMT

Simon Phipps: Open source success wasn't enough to rescue Sun

Sun's chief open source officer, Simon Phipps, has left the company following its acquisition by Oracle, the executive announced in his blog on Tuesday.

Ex-Sun CEO Schwartz tells it like it is on Gates and Jobs

Wed, 10 Mar 2010 09:48:00 GMT

Apple tried to sue Sun and .Net platform ripped-off Java, says Jonathan Schwartz

The former CEO of Sun Microsystems has taken to his personal blog, provocatively titled "What I couldn't say...," to dish some industry dirt and tell his side of the story about the demise of Sun. He has already hinted at plans to write a book, and a new post Tuesday suggests a tell-all tome could indeed be in the offing.

Oracle Exadata database engine will integrate Flash storage

Tue, 09 Mar 2010 10:03:00 GMT

Servers to feature embedded drives for performance

The second iteration of Oracle's Exadata database engine will feature flash storage embedded within the server machine, eliminating the need to source data from storage disks and cutting query processing time significantly, a company executive revealed.