Complacency
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After 5 years, Firefox faces new challenges
Insight Mozilla helped reshape the Web since releasing Firefox 1.0 five years ago. Now it's got a reawakened Microsoft and Google Chrome to reckon with.
Tags: Web 2.0, Web browsers, Open Source, Google Inc., Microsoft Corp., software, Web 2.0, Web Browser, Google Chrome, Mozilla Corp.
Managing UOB's critical IT pipes
Insight IT chief Susan Hwee keeps vigil over the United Overseas Bank's IT systems and operations, all of which have become an integral part of the business.
Tags: IT Management, IT budgeting, Budgeting/cost control
WinXP: an OS for Linux lovers
News Despite all of its automation and graphical splendor, Windows XP brings its share of quirks to the table. Bill O'Brien believes that Microsoft has finally made an operating system that Linux users will love.
Complacency has no place in IT
Blogs It was on April Fools' Day at the turn of the millennium that the Singapore telecommunications market was fully liberali...
Feel the earth move? Think BCP
Blogs weekly roundup For the first time, this week, I felt the earth move under my feet right here in Singapore, where natural...
UK govt loses 600,000 personal details
News The U.K. Ministry of Defence has lost over half a million personal details of actual and potential employees, including 3,500 bank details.
Tags: Security
Security czar: Button up or get hacked
News Richard Clarke, the United States' top adviser on cybersecurity, says many companies spend less on computer security than they do on coffee for employees.
Linux guru warns on security in open source
News Veteran developer Alan Cox cautions that hackers are trying hard to break open-source code and that many projects are far from secure.
Tags: Security, Linux, Open source
Man still the weakest link
News A new study by industry group CompTIA finds a rise in security breaches as a result of human error last year.
Tags: Business security, PC security, Data security, Network security, Viruses and worms, IDS (Intrusion Detection Systems), Security Management
Today's corporate landscape ain't Sesame Street
Blogs The reality of today's business environment is that many companies have resorted to cost-cutting measures, in a bid to b...
Apache servers experience increasing number of attacks
Insight Not all vulnerabilities are exploited equally--even the critical ones. Several flaws in the widespread Apache Web server have recently become popular hacker targets. See which flaws to look for and how to mitigate the potential damage.
Tech bigwigs dispute guru's pessimism
News Executives from IBM and Microsoft on Monday attacked the findings of Nicholas Carr, the consultant who became a technology industry bad boy when the Harvard Business Review published an article he wrote titled, "IT Doesn't Matter."
Red Hat growth tops estimates by a notch
News The Linux seller offers a bullish assessment of its performance, which beat analyst expectations by a penny.
Tags: Linux, Open source
Security industry slams virus reward
News The antivirus industry lambasted email firewall start-up GateKeeper on Monday, after the company announced a reward for any virus writer who can infect a specific computer protected by its product.
US retailers feel security heat
News Recent computer break-ins at Polo Ralph Lauren and DSW Warehouse in the United States show retailers are growing more vulnerable.
Tags: Hacking
