Mozilla’s website for developers leaked email addresses and encrypted passwords of registered users for about a month due to a database error, the Email addresses for 76,000 Mozilla Development Network (MDN) users were exposed, along with around 4,000 encrypted passwords, wrote Stormy Peters, director of development relations, and Joe Stevensen, operations security manager in a […]
Whatever your poison — Windows 7 or 8, updated or not — there’s a desktop tool just begging to become part of your repertoire. Top 25 free tools for every Windows desktop While smartphones descend on computer cognoscenti like Mongol hordes and tablets tempt the tried and true, the good ol’ Windows desktop still reigns […]
For executives in charge of desktop deployments in a large company, Linux OS was once hailed as a savior for corporate end users. With incredibly low pricing – free, with fee-based support plans, for example – distributions such as Ubuntu Desktop and SUSE Linux Enterprise offered a “good enough” user interface, along with plenty of […]
Long periods of uncertainty about who goes, who stays, can corrode a company’s morale Microsoft yesterday said it could take as long as a year to lay off the 18,000 workers who will be eventually shown the door, making for a long, drawn-out morale-busting process that was criticized by both labor experts and industry analysts. […]
Staying safe these digital days takes more than antivirus. Here are 10 fundamental things you do to protect your PC and other devices. Batten down the hatches It’s a tough, insecure world out there, fellow PC faithful. Times have never been scarier, with website data breaches turning into regular affairs, programming flaws like Heartbleed popping […]
Oracle is planning to release 115 security patches for vulnerabilities affecting a wide array of its products, including its flagship database, Java SE, Fusion Middleware and business applications. The update includes fixes for 20 weaknesses in Java SE, all of which can be exploited by an attacker remotely, without the need for login credentials, Oracle […]
The importance of including a career objective on your CV (Curriculum Vitae) cannot be overstated. This is a short statement, two or three lines long which sums up your goals and helps employers to decide whether or not you are suitable for their company. This is the first thing employers come across when reading your […]
With the new technologies coming in the market every other day, life has become advanced these days. In this modern era, you have to be on your toes all the time especially if your career in related to the field of IT: one has to stay updated with all the latest programs and their features […]
This week disappointing news came from service provider Code Spaces, a company that provided support for devops application management. Code Spaces, which was hosted in Amazon Web Service’s cloud, ceased operations. after suffering a distributed denial-of-service attack by a perpetrator who demanded ransom and then began deleting data when company officials logged into their AWS […]
Practical applications are emerging for connected devices in key industries A year ago, people were mostly talking about the potential of the Internet of Things (IoT) — what companies and government entities might do in the future to take advantage of this widespread network of connected objects. Practical advice for you to take full advantage […]
Applications, endpoints, networks, and servers will enforce security policies related to identity and data security. So what should CISOs do to address the “shadow IT” dilemma? As IT loses control of some of its traditional assets, my suggestion to CISOs is to double-down on security controls and oversight for the things they still own. In […]
Just before the Internet’s meteoric rise in the public consciousness, large centralized dial-up services like America Online, Prodigy, and CompuServe dominated the online landscape. In this competitive climate 20 years ago, Apple introduced eWorld, a subscription-based information service available to Mac and Newton users. Despite its closure in 1996, eWorld remains notable for its city-based […]
From passwords on sticky notes to sensitive contracts left in a pile by the printer, many office workers make the same basic security errors. Even our CSO staff is not immune to these common no-nos – but they are easy to fix (includes video) You’ve checked all of the entry ways in your office building, […]
Feels like a PR exercise,’ says analyst of Apple’s decision to publicly beta test OS X Apple has returned to public beta testing of its Mac operating system after a 14-year absence, just as rival Microsoft has begun backing away from the practice. On Monday, Apple said that it would expand a small public beta […]
Conference mixed milestone revelry with stark realities of mission ahead SAN FRANCISCO — It started with a sobering declaration and ended with what for some was an inebriating party. So went the week of Cisco Live, the 25th anniversary of the annual conference of Cisco customers from around the world. And Cisco did the milestone […]
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