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Clothes don't make this man: Sweatshirt helps nail Citibank card scammer

26 min 55 sec ago
A bank-card scammer using stolen Citibank account numbers and PINs netted hundreds of thousands of dollars, but was caught because he always wore the same distinctive sweatshirt when making the illegal withdrawals.

Lockheed Martin gets $89 million to converge DoD distribution networks

26 min 55 sec ago
The Department of Defense is paying Lockheed Martin $89 million to converge the Defense Logistics Agency's and U.S. Transportation Command's distribution networks to help the military better order and track supply shipments.

When networks fail, hams to the rescue

26 min 55 sec ago
Normally, in a time of crisis, an "amateur" is not the first person you might call. But when communications networks go down, amateur radio operators - or hams - and their gear can get communities connected to the outside world via the radio waves.

Barracuda countersues Trend Micro in patent case

26 min 55 sec ago
The legal battle between Trend Micro and Barracuda enters a new stage, as Barracuda brings in three newly-purchased patents of its own.

Gartner: Seven cloud-computing security risks

26 min 55 sec ago
Cloud computing is fraught with security risks, according to analyst firm Gartner. Smart customers will ask tough questions, and consider getting a security assessment from a neutral third party before committing to a cloud vendor, Gartner says in a June report titled “Assessing the Security Risks of Cloud Computing.”

Alliance to promote Windows-managed Macs in enterprise

26 min 55 sec ago
A group of five vendors has formed an alliance to help push Macintosh desktops into managed Windows environments on corporate networks.

Autonomy, Endeca rate among top enterprise search vendors

26 min 55 sec ago
The best enterprise search products on the market come from Autonomy, Endeca, the Microsoft subsidiary Fast and Vivisimo, but Google’s Search Appliance continues to dominate the market in terms of brand awareness and sheer number of customers, Forrester Research says in a new report.

Microsoft readies new try for Yahoo

26 min 55 sec ago
Microsoft is seeking partners including Time Warner and News Corp. in a new bid to acquire Yahoo's search business, the Wall Street Journal reported Wednesday.

Mozilla's Firefox 3 sets geeky world record

26 min 56 sec ago
It's official: Mozilla has set possibly the geekiest world record ever with the release of Firefox 3.

IBM mainframe acquisition raises antitrust concerns

26 min 56 sec ago
IBM has acquired Platform Solutions, a vendor of mainframes and other computer hardware, in a move that raised antitrust concerns from one IT trade group.

California enacts cell-phone driving ban

26 min 56 sec ago
Back when you learned to drive, you may have been instructed to keep your hands on the wheel at 10 o'clock and 2 o'clock. Of course, the older you got, the more likely that rule was relegated to the realm of "suggestion," especially as the equipment in our cars--stereos, onboard navigation, even climate control--got more and more complicated. And of course, there's the all too common sight today of someone speeding past you while chatting merrily away on his or her cell phone.

Trojan lurks, waiting to steal admin passwords

26 min 56 sec ago
Writers of a password-stealing Trojan horse program have found that a little patience can lead to a lot of infections.

Report: Tech giants forming 'patent troll' alliance

26 min 56 sec ago
Patent trolls beware: some of the tech industry's biggest names are banding together to run you out of court.

Microsoft SharePoint popularity comes with issues

26 min 56 sec ago
Microsoft's SharePoint Server 2007 may be taking off in the enterprise, but the software doesn't come without holes, warts and a variety of other issues that need to be addressed in any corporate deployment.

Diary of a deliberately spammed housewife

26 min 56 sec ago
The Global S.P.A.M. Diaries was an experiment by McAfee to find out what would happen if 50 volunteers from around the world put aside common sense and answered every e-mail spam that came to them, chronicling the results. Tracy Mooney, a married mother of three in Naperville, Ill., was among them, and she tells what she saw in her online identity as "Penelope Retch".

Ellison-backed Pillar targets storage utilization rates

Thu, 07/03/2008 - 10:30
Larry Ellison-backed Pillar Data Systems upgrades storage system for VMware, Oracle and Exchange environments.

Sun sheds light on telework savings

Thu, 07/03/2008 - 09:30
Sun is an old hand when it comes to telework. The technology company has been expanding its telecommuting ranks through its Open Work program for a decade, and today nearly 19,000 employees (56% of Sun's population) work from home or in a flexible office.

Cisco, IBM, Intel, Juniper and Microsoft fight cyber terror together

Thu, 07/03/2008 - 09:00
Five major network hardware, software and services vendors are banding together to improve IT security by promoting faster responses to threats.

Start-up nexTier debuts data-leak prevention appliance

Thu, 07/03/2008 - 08:00
Data-leak prevention gains another market entry with the debut of start-up nexTier Networks, which is touting a DLP appliance that monitors and blocks sensitive and unauthorized transmissions and learns by crawling the enterprise network to read for information content where data is stored.