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Weekend Gadget Watch: BlackBerry Storm 2
Photo The BlackBerry Storm 2 is an improvement on RIM's last attempt at a touchscreen smartphone. Considering hitting the shops at the weekend? Looking for inspiration? Check out the latest in our series of gadget... [20 Nov 2009]
Outsourcers to fall victim to cloud computing rush?
News Could some of the big names in outsourcing be among the victims of the much-hyped shift to cloud computing? As businesses begin to host their IT systems in the cloud - instead of hiring outsourcers to maintain and integrate their systems... [19 Nov 2009]
Storm Worm & Botnet Analysis
White Paper When worm is running, it unpacks itself first, and then drops a malicious PE file that is embedded in the executable file. Then, it decrypts the malicious PE file into heap memory. When these steps are complete, the worm jumps to the... [13 Nov 2009]
2008 Internet Malware Trends: Storm and the Future of Social Engineering
White Paper Estimates of the number of computers infected with Storm ranged widely, with some security researchers positing that up to 50 million computers had been infected. Cisco's IronPort Systems estimates that, at its most... [12 Nov 2009]
Weathering a Perfect Storm: The Collision of Application Vulnerabilities and Data Privacy
White Paper Compliance audits typically test whether the intrusion detection system, intrusion prevention system or firewall applications are probably working. These network-centric controls do not necessarily speak to data security. [12 Nov 2009]
Understanding and Blocking the New Botnets
White Paper Examples describe botnets known as Zunker, Gozi, Storm, MayDay, and a kit known as Mpack that helps botmasters easily create malicious web sites. Botnets are widely regarded as the top threat to network security. [12 Nov 2009]
McAfee Avert Labs Top 10 Threat Predictions for 2008
White Paper Storm Worm) grew into the largest Peer-to-Peer (P2P) botnet to date, while TJ Max revealed the largest data breach in history. As 2007 comes to a close, it's a good time to reflect on the current threat landscape. [12 Nov 2009]
Photos: Second coming for touchscreen BlackBerry
Photo The device is the successor to the original Storm, launched last year and, like its predecessor, the Storm2 is exclusive to the Vodafone network in the UK. RIM today announced the launch of the BlackBerry Storm2... [15 Oct 2009]
BlackBerry Storm2: RIM's second touchscreen - this time with wi-fi
News The company released its first touchscreen device, the Storm, around a year ago, also on Vodafone's network. Unlike the first Storm handset, the Storm2 comes with wi-fi - "a key thing that was missing... [15 Oct 2009]
The Coming Storm of Regulation
White Paper The continuing financial crisis that has gripped the world since mid-2008 is likely to cause a flood of new global regulations. The nature of this failure dictates a new approach to regulations that will drive transparency requirements... [06 Oct 2009]
A world where your every moment is recorded is coming
News There are storm clouds on the e-memory horizon, however. In Total Recall, the new book from Microsoft researchers Gordon Bell and Jim Gemmell, they obsessively record emails, photos, videos, phone calls, health records,... [21 Sep 2009]
Apple's Snow Leopard won't make us move to Macs, say CIOs
News Madhushan Gokool, IT manager, Storm Model Management According to silicon.com's CIO Jury, the release late last month of Apple's latest OS, Snow Leopard, won't signal the company's entry into the business market. [21 Sep 2009]
The perfect storm: Why now is the time for open source
White Paper Indeed, the high value of open source, coupled with economic and organizational pressure, represents a "perfect storm" for CIOs, giving them the opportunity to deploy high-performing, cost-effective open source solutions... [17 Sep 2009]
After the Storm: A New Era for Risk Management in Financial Services
White Paper Almost two years since the financial crisis first emerged from the sub-prime mortgage business in the US, the repercussions continue to be felt. Despite unprecedented efforts by governments, central banks and regulators, the cost to the... [16 Sep 2009]
Data Mining Storm Attributes From Spatial Grids
White Paper A technique to identify storms and capture scalar features within the geographic and temporal extent of the identified storms is described. The identification technique relies on clustering grid points in an observation field to find... [29 Aug 2009]
