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China's Skype service censoring messages
News University of Toronto researchers say they uncovered "targeted surveillance" of TOM-Skype users in China. Text chats are blocked if they contain certain words.
Tags: VoIP/IP telephony, Privacy, Skype Technologies S.A., Security, Report, E-mail Message, Server, New York Times Co., Canada, professor
UAE has Gulf's highest female Internet user base
News United Arab Emirates houses most female online users in Gulf region, making Arab state potentially lucrative market for online companies, study shows.
Tags: Female, Web sites, Internet advertising, online company, Bahrain, broadband quality of service, Web sites, Female, QoS, Broadband
Most security products flunk quality tests
News Nearly 80 percent of security tools fail to perform during initial certification tests, requiring two or more cycles of further testing, reports product testing firm.
Tags: Security applications/tools, ICSA Labs, Security Product, Verizon Communications Inc., Security, performance, Security Update, accounting, Security applications/tools
IBM report: Vulnerabilities still going unpatched
News Many disclosed vulnerabilities are still unpatched years later, notes report, while Microsoft is vendor with the highest percentage of disclosed holes.
Tags: PC security, Security Management, Data security, Network security, IBM Corp., Malware, Report, Vulnerability, online banking, operating system
Report: Hackers broke into US air traffic control systems
News Breaches exposed sensitive employee data, forced the shutdown of part of a network, and could have allowed hackers to disrupt the agency's mission-support network, a government report says.
Tags: Hacking, FAA, Security, Report, Air Traffic Control, Password, intrusion detection, Web Application, computer, commercial software
Report: US vulnerable to Chinese cyber espionage
News Congressional commission report says Chinese could conduct cyber warfare so sophisticated that U.S. may unable to respond.
Tags: Data security, Security Management, Defense/military, Security, Report, Training, Computer, Associated Press, U.S. Government, network
Investment in tech could help the UK reinvent itself
News A London School of Economics report suggests that a 15 billion pound (US$22.1 billion) investment in broadband, smart grid and intelligent transport technology could create 700,000 jobs.
Tags: Investments, Business broadband, Report, Investment, Author, Spokesperson, Information And Communication Technology, Broadband, Government, job
Report: Some UK govt databases may be illegal
News A quarter of U.K. government databases could contravene European human-rights laws, according to an independent body of experts.
Tags: Data mining & analysis, Databases, Regulations, DNA, Security, Report, Home Secretary, Government Database, European Court, Database
UN audit finds weakness in peacekeepers' IT
News IT systems for UN peacekeeping logistics were insecure last year, according to an internal UN report, but some secure transmission standards are being deliberately avoided due to their bandwidth requirements.
Tags: Authentication and encryption, Hacking, Firewalls, Defense/military, Disaster Recovery, Report, IT Security, business continuity planning, UNLB, network
UK govt scales back ePassport upgrade
News The U.K. Identity and Passport Service has dropped the Electronic Passport Application project upgrade, claiming to be striving for value for money.
Tags: Biometrics, RFID, Firewalls, Security, Applications and tools, Outsourcing, Report, Supplier, ID Card, Worker
IBM urges service innovation
News A report challenges private and public sectors to support more technological innovations for service systems such as transport, communications and healthcare.
Tags: Innovation, Software-as-a-service (SaaS), IBM Corp., Service Innovation, Report, Business Model, Innovation, University of Cambridge, BAE Systems Plc., career path
Customers to devise killer-gadgets of the future
News A report by the Economist Intelligence Unit predicts that within five years, 'prosumers' will be feeding their ideas straight onto company production lines.
Tags: Development/design, Apple Inc., Report, economist, London, Silicon.com, marketing, product design, analyst, Web Site
Kicking the tires with Perfmon in Server 2008
Techguide Over the years, there have been few changes in how we measure Windows performance. Windows Server 2008 introduces a new key functionality to the Perfmon tool.
Tags: Operating systems, Server platforms, Servers, Report, Tool, Windows administrator, performance monitoring, standard user, standard user access control, Perfmon
Report: Countries prepping for cyber war
News U.S., Israel, Russia, China, and France are gearing up for cyber offensives, according to a new McAfee report.
Tags: Security, International governments, Defense/military, ARPAnet, U.S., network, Georgia, South Korea, denial of service, McAfee Inc.
Microsoft probing Windows 7 zero-day hole
News One day after Patch Tuesday, researcher warns of unpatched security hole in Windows 7 and Server 2008.
Tags: PC security, Security applications/tools, Server Message Block, Microsoft Corp., NetBIOS, Vulnerability, broadcasting, Spokesperson, Microsoft Windows 7, Server
