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- 7/31/2009

Tom Stamulis 7/31/2009 15 comments
As security pros convene for this year's Black Hat conference, one attendee sees an industry at a crossroads

- 7/31/2009

Editor's Blog 7/31/2009 18 comments
How's this for irony? Google's 'safe browsing' feature for Chrome and Firefox is... not safe

- 7/31/2009

- 7/30/2009

- 7/29/2009

Security Clan Editor's Blog 7/29/2009 17 comments
Software vendor issues two out-of-band (read: emergency) patches

- 7/29/2009

- 7/28/2009

Editor's Blog 7/28/2009 26 comments
The majority of Internet Evolution readers don't believe privacy exists on the Web, but do they care?

Robert J. Hansen 7/28/2009 36 comments
Desperation, not stupidity, is what drives end-users to use the same passwords as many times as they can

- 7/28/2009

- 7/27/2009

Internet Evolution Poll 7/27/2009 3 comments
Putting Google's 'Don't Be Evil' motto aside, is the Internet giant, itself, an evil entity?

Jart Armin 7/27/2009 18 comments
Intranets and cloud environments, beware: A browser hack formerly thought impractical has morphed alarmingly

Mary E. Shacklett 7/27/2009 21 comments
Programming skills in AJAX, PHP, SOAP, and Apache Web Server are also in demand

- 7/26/2009

- 7/25/2009

- 7/24/2009

Ira Winkler 7/24/2009 39 comments
TechCrunch claims freedom of the press in its exposure of Twitter documents obtained through a white-collar crime

- 7/23/2009

Jonathan Hochman 7/23/2009 7 comments
Implementing some simple coding procedures can help companies guard against two key vulnerabilities of Web servers

- 7/23/2009

- 7/22/2009

Security Clan Editor's Blog 7/22/2009 19 comments
Being online is a lot like everyday life – you make yourself vulnerable and accept the risks that come with it

- 7/22/2009

David Vellante 7/22/2009 26 comments
User negligence was to blame in the recent Hacker Croll episode involving Twitter employees

- 7/22/2009

- 7/21/2009

- 7/20/2009

Jart Armin 7/20/2009 10 comments
A campaign is underway to expose and undermine any attempts to disclose security flaws in public forums

- 7/20/2009

- 7/19/2009

- 7/18/2009

- 7/17/2009

Editor's Blog 7/17/2009 17 comments
Canada says Facebook violates its Personal Information Protection and Electronic Data Act – and isn't particularly dead-friendly

- 7/17/2009

- 7/16/2009

IT Clan Editor's Blog 7/16/2009 35 comments
Enterprises need to examine all aspects of disposing of used equipment in this age of Internet-driven upgrades

- 7/16/2009

Alan Reiter 7/16/2009 46 comments
Only extensive testing will determine the advisability of passing laws that use jamming to thwart cellphones in prisons

- 7/16/2009

Editor's Blog 7/16/2009 9 comments
Twitter forecasts revenue but forgets it needs a revenue model

- 7/16/2009

Tom Stamulis 7/16/2009 16 comments
If misunderstood, the concept of 'personally identifiable information' could stack the deck against Internet users

- 7/15/2009

Security Clan Editor's Blog 7/15/2009 6 comments
A change in account status triggers a freeze on funds, which gets blogged, tweeted, and re-tweeted to a happy ending

- 7/15/2009

Todd Watson 7/15/2009 4 comments
Twitter hack/break-in puts a big dent in cloud security

- 7/15/2009

Tom Nolle 7/15/2009 27 comments
We need to find a new commercial engine on the Web; online advertising is proving to be a self-defeating model

- 7/15/2009

- 7/14/2009

Ira Winkler 7/14/2009 16 comments
Everyone should be taking similar action to protect their sites against clear threats

- 7/14/2009

- 7/13/2009

David Silversmith 7/13/2009 22 comments
Concealing your identity on the Web is a nearly futile endeavor

- 7/13/2009

Kim Solez, MD 7/13/2009 42 comments
The future of humankind may depend on scrapping our current Internet protocols and devising new ones

- 7/12/2009

- 7/11/2009

- 7/10/2009

Gideon J. Lenkey 7/10/2009 12 comments
Traffic monitoring by Goldman Sachs and some fast action from the FBI nab rogue programmer

- 7/10/2009

- 7/9/2009

Tom Nolle 7/9/2009 23 comments
Two projects aim to solve the Internet's scalability and security woes, but they need some work

- 7/9/2009

The Big Report 7/9/2009 11 comments
Three P2P filtering vendors step forward to have their Deep Packet Inspection capabilities tested side by side

- 7/9/2009

Deborah Nason 7/9/2009 32 comments
Customers could benefit from standardizing Web hosting facilities, as long as the criteria make sense and certifications can be timely

- 7/8/2009

Jart Armin 7/8/2009 7 comments
Remote file inclusion unleashes dedicated denial-of-service attacks on US, South Korean government servers

Security Clan Editor's Blog 7/8/2009 8 comments
Two Carnegie Mellon researchers created an algorithm that's remarkably accurate at predicting some people's Social Security numbers

- 7/8/2009

- 7/7/2009

- 7/6/2009

Tom Nolle 7/6/2009 6 comments
All kinds of cloud computing, SaaS, or 'something-as-a-service' offerings have enterprise customers rethinking their network plans

- 7/5/2009

- 7/3/2009

- 7/2/2009

Mathew Ingram 7/2/2009 12 comments
Web repression can be countered by unified groups of vendors, companies, and opposing governments

- 7/2/2009

- 7/1/2009

Security Clan Editor's Blog 7/1/2009 6 comments
Intranet exploits, Trojans, 'fly-by' SMS threats rearrange the threat landscape

- 7/1/2009

Dan Cypra 7/1/2009 22 comments
If your job involves mass emailing, check out this list of ways to avoid having your email 'trashed'

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Hilary Allison 6/18/2013 8 comments

most recent post: stotheco... True, true. As someone who doesn't use emoticons, I regularly get asked if I'm upset or mad at something...

Charlotte Erdmann 6/18/2013 3 comments

Midsize businesses rarely achieve the same standards of security in their own datacenters as professional providers that specialize in delivering these services to organizations.

most recent post: Alison Diana... Surprised when I hear companies say they don't use an attorney to at least read their SLAs. Anytime...

Jeff Kaplan 6/17/2013 3 comments

It was about 10 years ago when a new generation of software-as-a-service (SaaS) alternatives started to gain acceptance and adoption among organizations of all sizes. And it has only been about five years since Amazon Web Services captured the marketplace's attention with Amazon EC2 and Amazon S3, which opened the door to a vast array of infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) offerings. Now, the third piece of the cloud computing puzzle is beginning to win over organizations seeking to build their own apps: platform-as-a-service (PaaS).

most recent post: Mitch Wagner... It does seem that security and convenience are at odds. More convenient apps are less secure, and greater...

Mary E. Shacklett 6/14/2013 14 comments

Energy consumption is a primary contributor to global warming. At the end of 2012, 40 percent of energy consumption in the US came from commercial and residential buildings.

most recent post: pcharles... Agreed. You cannot have true privacy if you don't trust those beholden with your information.

Derrick Wood 6/13/2013 11 comments

most recent post: DavidSilversmith... Now if you can just incorporate the beer tap with this wonderful product! http://voices.yahoo.com/u...

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John Kennedy
How Big-Data Is Changing Marketing
6|13|13 | 1:07 | 1 comment

Big-data and analytics tools enable marketers to understand customers as individuals, identifying unmet needs and addressing each customer as a "segment of one," says John Kennedy, VP corporate marketing, IBM.

Kim Davis
Big-Data Can’t Always Sell Wine
5|21|13 | 2:23 | 10 comments

Whole Foods Global Wine Purchaser Doug Bell told me about some of the constraints on using analytics in the US wine market.

Paul J. Fleuranges
Digital Signage Keeps NYC Subway Straphangers on Track
5|6|13 | 3:51 | 1 comment

New York's Metropolitan Transit Authority is conducting a pilot test of digital kiosks to guide subway users to where they want to go more efficiently and at lower cost.

Kim Davis
Fast Forward to the Future
4|23|13 | 2:29 | 20 comments

A look back at tech writing in the 90s makes us wonder where enterprise IT will be 20 years from now.

Mitch Wagner
Google Launches Its Most Depressing Service Yet
4|15|13 | 2:59 | 10 comments

Google's new Inactive Account Manager lets you control how Google disposes of your accounts when you die.

Second Shooter
Argument Over Top-Level Domains Is 'Stupid'
4|11|13 | 2:07 | 3 comments

The whole Amazon.reader debate is a double-stupid. It's stupid to think that there's any e-book buyer who doesn't know Amazon's URL, and it was stupider to let ICANN launch the whole free-form TLD initiative to start with.

Kim Davis
Ladies, Your Tablet Awaits
3|21|13 | 2:22 | 37 comments

ePad Femme is the world’s first tablet “made exclusively for women.”

Wisdom of the Big Chair
NFC Moves Into the Mainstream
3|20|13 | 2:16 | No comments

While NFC's original goal was to enhance mobile commerce applications, it is finding its way into a number of other uses, which is creating both opportunity as well as challenges for IT departments.

Wisdom of the Big Chair
Integrating Security Into Your Cloud Contract
3|19|13 | 3:35 | No comments

Enterprises would like to move to cloud computing but are hesitant because they are concerned about providers’ ability to secure company data. Here are some tips that help to ensure that if breaches occur, the business is not left holding the bag.

Brian Baron
How Edmunds.com Collects Customer Information
3|18|13 | 1:15 | No comments

Edmunds separates customers into segments based on the info it collects on its site and from partners, and uses that to push out custom content, said Brian Baron, director of business analytics for Edmunds.com, at Predictive Analytics Innovation Summit.

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