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News The bank Trojan, dubbed URLzone, has features designed to thwart fraud detection systems that are triggered by unusual transactions, Yuval Ben-Itzhak, chief technology officer at Finjan, said in an interview on Tuesday. [30 Sep 2009]
Five critical Windows updates arrive on Microsoft's Patch Tuesday
News According to Symantec Security Response research manager Ben Greenbaum, the two vulnerabilities most likely to be used by attackers involve the way Windows handles ASF and MP3 media files. Microsoft on Tuesday issued... [09 Sep 2009]
IT graduates failing to make the business grade, say UK tech chiefs
News Ben Acheson, IT manager at PADS Printing and Commercial Stationery, also believes IT graduates are not making the grade. Ben Acheson, IT manager, PADS Printing and Commercial Stationery... [02 Sep 2009]
Google says sorry for Gmail's two-hour outage: Blames 'miscalculation'
News Ben Treynor, vice president of engineering and site reliability czar said in the blog: "At about 12:30pm Pacific [time] a few of the request routers became overloaded and in effect told the rest of the system 'stop... [02 Sep 2009]
eBay sells most of Skype in $2bn deal
News The Andreessen Horowitz venture capital group was launched in July by Marc Andreessen, the founder of Netscape and co-founder of Opsware, and Ben Horowitz, also co-founder of Opsware. Ecommerce giant eBay announced on... [01 Sep 2009]
eBay set to hang up on Skype?
News The investment group will reportedly include Andreessen Horowitz, a venture capital group launched in July by Marc Andreessen, founder of Netscape and co-founder of Opsware, and Ben Horowitz, also co-founder of Opsware. [01 Sep 2009]
No phone, no internet, no electricity: This is no ordinary IT job
News Computer lessons at an IT centre set up by a VSO volunteer business advisor in the Veyula Training Centre near Dodoma, Tanzania (photo credit: VSO/Ben Langdon) For some IT professionals, the definition of making a... [25 Aug 2009]
Microsoft Office, Windows get critical flaw fixes in latest patch batch
News Symantec senior research manager Ben Greenbaum noted that many of the vulnerabilities this month related to so-called ActiveX controls and added that many of the holes could be exploited just by getting a user to visit a... [12 Aug 2009]
Offshoring is bad for IT skills, say UK tech chiefs
News Ben Acheson, IT manager at PADS Printing and Commercial Stationery, believes the offshoring of first line support jobs is a particular problem for UK Plc. While Dr Ben Booth, global chief technology... [28 Jul 2009]
Photos: Underwater robots compete to make the biggest splash
Photo One of the competition's judges, Ben Evans from DSTL's naval systems department, said in a statement that Nessie "was the most robust and effective robot on the day and the team's hard work has clearly paid off for a... [20 Jul 2009]
Mozilla: 'Developers, look no further for your open source tools'
News Ben Galbraith, a member of Mozilla Labs Developer Tools team, wrote in a blog post: "As we've explored different tools we could create here as part of the Developer Tools Lab, we've come to the opinion that in addition... [09 Jul 2009]
Software as a service leaves users feeling 'underwhelmed'
News Gartner research VP Ben Pring said the research findings "did not exactly provide a ringing endorsement of SaaS" and that satisfaction levels are "little more than lukewarm". While software as a service (SaaS) may be... [08 Jul 2009]
Google Apps Premier Edition Lets Software Developer WBP Systems Focus on Core Business Activities
White Paper Ben Smith founded WBP Systems on the premise that software should not be confusing or a chore, or requires 300-page manuals; instead, software should be simple to use able to accomplish complex tasks with ease. [23 Jun 2009]
iPhone has no place in business say CIOs
News Meanwhile Dr Ben Booth, global chief technology officer for Ipsos, believes security is still a bugbear. Dr Ben Booth, global chief technology officer, Ipsos In the latest silicon.com CIO Jury, IT chiefs... [16 Jun 2009]
Windows 7: 'It's not you, it's just bad timing'
News Ben Acheson, implementation manager at office supplies company Office Team Group, said: "When Microsoft withdraws support for XP we will all be forced to migrate. Despite its imminent release, Windows 7 isn't likely to... [10 Jun 2009]
