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Genting gets social with Web 2.0
News The Malaysian enterprise is rolling out this week a customized collaborative network for board and senior management to work and share ideas more productively.
Tags: Web 2.0, Business applications, Web logs, Digital media, Software engineering/development, Software integration, phone, Microsoft SQL Server 2008, podcast, chairman
App stores unfazed by proprietary threat
News Arrival of proprietary mobile app stores such as Windows Marketplace won't topple third-party stores that can still differentiate, say MobiHand and Handango.
Tags: Mobile applications, Windows Mobile, MobiHand, Phone, App, Microsoft Corp., mobile, Mobile applications, Spokesperson, Developer
Microsoft: Windows 7 not affected by latest flaw
News Following up on a vulnerability disclosed in the last 24 hours, Microsoft says the flaw affects Vista and Windows Server 2008, but not the final version of Windows 7.
Tags: Microsoft Windows, Authentication and encryption, Server Message Block, Security, Vulnerability, Microsoft Windows 7, software company, Flaw, Microsoft Windows Server 2008, Microsoft Windows 2000
How confidential is confidential?
Blogs Although this post is about the Aware's instructor guide, I would like to state from the outset that I am not going to c...
Google Dashboard lifts curtain on stored data
News A new page off user's Google Account settings lets them review all the data the company has stored regarding that account, and make changes or delete data.
Tags: Privacy, Web sites, Google Inc., Blogger, Web sites, Internet search, Google Picasa, Dashboard, YouTube Inc., YouTube Video
Spammy scams surfacing on Twitter, Facebook
News Users on Twitter report direct messages that lead to phishing page, while Facebook users are getting links to a malware site.
Tags: Spam and phishing, Spam filtering, Facebook, Google Inc., Phishing, Malware, Twitter Inc., Phishing Web Site, Password, spam message
Symbian's Horizon app scheme goes live
News First 50 applications have been approved through the developer program, but all are for current versions of Symbian rather than future, open sourced versions.
Tags: Mobile applications, Symbian, Facebook, Symbian Inc., Operating System, CEO, mobile, Mobile applications, Video, mobile operating system
Apple acknowledges Snow Leopard data loss issue
News Company says it is aware of a problem related to guest account log-ins that "occurs only in extremely rare cases" and it does not yet have a fix for it.
Tags: Mac OS, Apple Inc., guest account, cell phone, CBS Interactive Inc., mobile, Apple Mac OS X, Apple Macintosh, Apple Mac OS, discussion board
The lowdown on India's Web 2.0 generation
Blogs India's demographics (50 percent of India's population is below the age of 25 years) has been perceived as both a boon a...
Microsoft investigating newly reported IIS flaw
News Software maker says it is looking into a potential vulnerability that could allow attackers to take over machines running older versions of Microsoft's Web server.
Tags: Microsoft Windows, Hacking, Data security, Authentication and encryption, Microsoft IIS Server, Vulnerability, International Data Group, Flaw, information service, IT administrator
Gmail outage hits 'small subset of users'
News Latest in a series of outages hits Google's e-mail service. This problem doesn't appear as widespread as the one earlier this month.
Tags: Web 2.0, Web sites, E-mail servers, E-mail clients, Dashboard, Mozilla Thunderbird, e-mail, spokesman, Google Apps, Google Gmail
US White House pulls e-mail for 'fishy' reports
News Say good-bye to "flag@whitehouse.gov"--it's been deactivated and messages bounce back, a win for critics comparing it to an "enemies list" and surveillance program.
Tags: Data security, E-mail servers, Security Management, E-mail Address, Republican, e-mail, aide, White House, health care, Sen.
Microsoft reports attacks using IIS vulnerability
News Flaw that could attack Microsoft's Web server software is now being used to attack machines, the software company reports.
Tags: Business applications, Microsoft IIS Server, Vulnerability, information service, FTP, Microsoft IIS 7.0, Microsoft IIS 5.1, security response communications team, Microsoft IIS 5.0, Attack
Macs: No longer last bastion of invulnerability
Blogs Last week, a friend of mine pointed me to an online promotion for some software for the MacBook that I own. It was a sui...
Perspectives provides out-of-band verification for SSH
Techguide There is more to Perspectives than the Firefox extension for TLS/SSL validation.
Tags: Network security, PC security, Data security, Security, Perspectives, SSH Protocol, SSL, network, OpenSSH, SSH
