Symantec’s latest version of Brightmail Gateway security platform includes features such as content encryption as well as increased scalability. – Security software specialist Symantec announced its latest messaging security platforms, Symantec Brightmail Gateway 9.0 and Symantec Brightmail Gateway 9.0 Small Business Edition. The company said the updated versions would deliver enhanced protection through real-time updates, …
According to Sophos, 60 percent of businesses consider Facebook the riskiest social networking site, underscoring a new level of weariness for social networks a time when a researcher from Kaspersky Lab says compromised accounts for Twitter and other sites can go for big bucks in the cyber-underworld.
‘Tis the season to be jolly especially if you write malware or are looking for an ocean of victims to phish. Botnet activity, as usual, is up during the season, with spammers and attackers trying to take advantage of the explosion in cyber-commerce that accompanies Christmas season. At McAfee, researchers have already seen e-mails from the Cutwail botnet using a Christmas theme, including a campaign that tries to lure recipients to Websites selling fake jewelry and Rolex watches.
Excessive industry hype has left CIOs reluctant to embrace desktop virtualisation. According to a new survey, half of private sector CIOs believe the technology is promising more than it can deliver.
Encouraging businesses to go green is good but the government must better incorporate outsourcing in its carbon control scheme, says the NOA’s Mark Kobayashi-Hillary Much is being said about the UK government’s upcoming Carbon Reduction Commitment (CRC) scheme but it remains unclear how much of this talk is translating into action and what impact the scheme will have on the outsourcing and offshoring industries.
Alan Ralsky, the man the feds nicknamed the Godfather of Spam, was sentenced to 51 months in prison for his part in a stock fraud and spamming scheme. Three other people were sentenced as well.
Adoption rates of virtualisation have yet to match the hype surrounding it, here Andrew Donoghue hears from businesses who’ve already taken the plunge. Despite vendors touting the numerous benefits that virtualisation can bestow on businesses that adopt the technology, there is a flaw in the rhetoric that is hard to get around: not many companies are actually adopting virtualisation.
Adoption rates of virtualisation have yet to match the hype surrounding it, here Andrew Donoghue hears from businesses who’ve already taken the plunge.
Unified comms holds plenty of promise but businesses hoping to use it must first consider why uptake has been so slow, says Jim Mortleman. Vendors may be making a lot of noise about unified communications and collaboration (UCC) but the promised panacea remains a pipe dream for most organisations. Despite having been touted as the likely number two strategic technology for 2008 by Gartner, it fell to number five on the 2009 list and does not appear at all in the analyst’s top 10 for 2010.
Virtualisation? So I get to put on a funky headset and walk around a simulated landscape shooting aliens?Okay, enough with the virtual reality of yesteryear. We’re talking about virtualisation in terms of the creation of a virtual version of something – such as a server or storage device.
Hi there and welcome to my little space on the web. I am Ben and actually I live in Rome, as many says The Eternal City. I like to write on a variety of topics, especially local events where I am able to jump in and participate. I prefer to write as a participant, not as a bystander so I will frequently attend local events and will write about. If not me directly, then someone from our team or whoever else is in attendance.
