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Comment: Re: I want none of it - ivka - 9/30/2010
Comment: the majority rules - ivka - 9/30/2010
Comment: Re: I want none of it - bri77 - 9/30/2010
Comment: Re: Phony job sites - bri77 - 9/30/2010
Comment: Re: IPv6 - Tom Nolle - 9/30/2010
Comment: IPv6 - lek1981 - 9/30/2010
Comment: Re: Great observation - lek1981 - 9/30/2010
Comment: Risk vs Reward - lek1981 - 9/30/2010
Comment: I want none of it - KMT568 - 9/30/2010
Comment: Re: Ulanoff's Take - rjacksix - 9/30/2010
Comment: Re: Ulanoff's Take - rjacksix - 9/30/2010
Comment: Maybe a catalyst? - Mary Jander - 9/30/2010
IPv6: Let’s Do This Already!
Second Shooter  
9/30/2010   4 comments
Too many cooks in this pot: We’re heading toward IPv6 anarchy.
Comment: Re: 'Bass Ackwards' - Leland - 9/29/2010
Comment: Excellent article - Leland - 9/29/2010
Comment: Re: 4th Amendment - Tom Nolle - 9/29/2010
Comment: Re: 4th Amendment - Paul Whyte - 9/29/2010
Comment: Re: Open Source - nathanwosnack - 9/29/2010
Comment: Re: Ulanoff's Take - Tom Nolle - 9/29/2010
Comment: Open Source - lek1981 - 9/29/2010
Comment: Re: Doing enough? - lek1981 - 9/29/2010
Cyber Storm III Kicks Up All Kinds of Dust
Security Clan Editor's Blog  
9/29/2010   9 comments
Cyber preparedness exercise expands in scope and scale and has an interesting backdrop of malware-infected Iranian nuclear infrastructure
Comment: Re: Doing enough? - Ariella - 9/29/2010
Comment: Re: Ulanoff's Take - Tom Nolle - 9/29/2010
Comment: Re: Ulanoff's Take - Leland - 9/29/2010
Comment: Re: 'Bass Ackwards' - Leland - 9/29/2010
Comment: 'Bass Ackwards' - Tom Stamulis - 9/29/2010
Comment: Re: Ulanoff's Take - Tom Nolle - 9/29/2010
Comment: Ulanoff's Take - rjacksix - 9/29/2010
Comment: Re: Doing enough? - pcharles - 9/29/2010
Comment: Re: 4th Amendment - Tom Nolle - 9/29/2010
Comment: Re: 4th Amendment - Tom Nolle - 9/29/2010
Comment: Re: 4th Amendment - rjacksix - 9/29/2010
Comment: Other Ways - rjacksix - 9/29/2010
Comment: Re: 4th Amendment - Paul Whyte - 9/29/2010
Comment: Re: Challenges - Chris Poley - 9/29/2010
The Clouding of IT Practices, Part 1
Mary E. Shacklett  
9/29/2010   4 comments
Cloud services bring great benefits to IT, but they also force revisions to IT practices.
Comment: It is all about us - Asad - 9/29/2010
Comment: Re: Challenges - taimur_tz - 9/29/2010
Comment: gun legislation - AGreen - 9/28/2010
Smarter Phones
Internet Evolution Poll  
9/28/2010   16 comments
Which smartphone development do you most want to see?
UT Austin Campus Shooting
Todd Watson  
9/28/2010   2 comments
Text messaging and technologies like Twitter got the word out and got students out of harm's way
Comment: Re: 4th Amendment - Tom Nolle - 9/28/2010
Comment: This is AMERICA - rjacksix - 9/28/2010
Comment: 4th Amendment - rjacksix - 9/28/2010
Comment: Re: Phony job sites - EJHarnois - 9/28/2010
Comment: Re: Doing enough? - EJHarnois - 9/28/2010
Comment: Re: First Shot? Hardly. - kq4ym - 9/28/2010
Comment: 1974 RACF - Mike Acker - 9/28/2010
Comment: Two things - Michael P. Kassner - 9/28/2010
Comment: Great observation - Mary Jander - 9/28/2010
Cyber-War Gets Real, and a Beltway Brawl Begins
Robert McGarvey  
9/28/2010   18 comments
Cyber-security legislation is in debate in Washington, but in the meantime the threat of cyber-war has materialized in alarming reality
Comment: Re: Safe surfing - Mary Jander - 9/28/2010
Wiretap Law & Internet Freedom
Tom Nolle  
9/28/2010   49 comments
Can the US justifiably extend wiretapping law to the Internet?
Comment: On Ice is Best - abdlah - 9/28/2010
Risky Business: Results From the First-Ever IBM Global IT Risk Study
Todd Watson  
9/27/2010   Post a comment
The survey was conducted online with 556 IT managers and others involved in their businesses' IT functions, and included 131 CIOs
Comment: Re: Doing enough? - Ariella - 9/27/2010
Comment: Re: Doing enough? - hounhosp - 9/27/2010
From China: What Threatens Us Most
Second Shooter  
9/27/2010   8 comments
Might China out-innovate us on the Internet that we invented?
Comment: Re: Doing enough? - Ariella - 9/27/2010
Comment: Re: Why Cyber-Attack - rwhidbee - 9/27/2010
Why Cyber-Attack Deterrence Remains on Ice
Kenneth Geers  
9/27/2010   16 comments
National security decision-makers are stymied when it comes to responding to cyber-threats
Comment: Re: Doing enough? - pcharles - 9/26/2010
Comment: Doing enough? - jnieusma - 9/26/2010
Comment: Missed opportunity - jnieusma - 9/26/2010
Comment: Phony job sites - jnieusma - 9/26/2010
Comment: Re: Better Methods - Mike Acker - 9/26/2010
Comment: Re: Better Methods - abdlah - 9/26/2010
Comment: Re: Better Methods - Jart Armin - 9/26/2010
Comment: Essential factors - taimur_tz - 9/25/2010
Comment: Re: Better Methods - abdlah - 9/25/2010
Comment: Re: Better Methods - torriatte - 9/25/2010
Comment: You said it, Jart. - ChrisTOP - 9/24/2010
Comment: Better Methods - abdlah - 9/24/2010
Comment: From Whence It Came? - rjacksix - 9/24/2010
Comment: Enough - Joe Stanganelli - 9/24/2010
Comment: Busted for Meth - Mike Acker - 9/24/2010
Comment: Re: New Big Thing - Chris Poley - 9/24/2010
Comment: New Big Thing - Joe Stanganelli - 9/24/2010
Comment: Happy Friday - Chris Poley - 9/24/2010
ID Theft Fosters 'Doppelgangers'
Jart Armin  
9/24/2010   34 comments
An alarming trend in ID theft involves stealing entire identities, resulting in exact doubles of many people, online and in person
Comment: Re: More Fun & Games - rwhidbee - 9/24/2010
Comment: Re: blame Canada(c) :) - Mashka - 9/24/2010
Comment: re: context awareness - tsaleem - 9/24/2010
Comment: blame Canada(c) :) - Mashka - 9/24/2010
Comment: Re: Up to it - abdlah - 9/24/2010
Comment: Re: Up to it - Princess_dascho - 9/23/2010
Comment: Re: Challenges - abdlah - 9/23/2010
Comment: Re: Challenges - Chris Poley - 9/23/2010
Comment: Up to it - abdlah - 9/23/2010
Comment: Challenges - abdlah - 9/23/2010
More Fun & Games With Facebook Privacy
Editor's Blog  
9/23/2010   23 comments
Facebook gets a happy nod from Canada for fixing some of its privacy flaws
Comment: re: context awareness - tsaleem - 9/23/2010
Comment: re: context awareness - tsaleem - 9/23/2010
Comment: re: context awareness - tsaleem - 9/23/2010
Comment: Safe surfing - EJHarnois - 9/22/2010
Comment: Re: Big mistake - Joe Grimm - 9/22/2010
Comment: not a surprise - Phavanhna - 9/22/2010
Twitter XSS Attack Ricochets 'Round the Globe
Security Clan Editor's Blog  
9/22/2010   10 comments
Though relatively benign, the Twitter cross-site scripting attack underscores how quickly malware replicates itself and forms variants
Comment: Privacy protection - Ariella - 9/22/2010
Privacy Protection
Internet Evolution Poll  
9/22/2010   16 comments
Do you think you do enough to protect your privacy online?
Comment: Re: Big mistake - Root Maniac - 9/22/2010
Context Awareness Aims for More 'Human' Web Devices
Chris Poley  
9/22/2010   34 comments
Intel's proposed smartphone technology aims to read and respond to human sensory signals in order to improve human/machine interaction
Comment: It's about time - Kurtkeys - 9/21/2010
Comment: Over-engineering - JC Cameron - 9/21/2010
Comment: Re: Media Scare? - jwallace - 9/21/2010
Comment: Re: nightmares relived - AGreen - 9/21/2010
 Yuvi Kochar, CTO, The Washington Post
IE Radio  
9/21/2010   103 comments
As corporate CTO for The Washington Post, Yuvi Kochar is charged with creating collaboration opportunities across all of the entity's businesses. We'll talk to him about the challenges of bridging the divide between consumer and enterprise tools, and he'll also discuss his goal of launching a common collaboration platform company-wide.
Securing the Hardware
Singer at C-Level  
9/21/2010   2 comments
Companies like Intel and HP are embedding security in hardware.
GPS & the Web Help Parents Track School Kids
Joe Grimm  
9/21/2010   40 comments
A RFID-driven system for monitoring students on buses has gotten mixed response, but the supplier says it's safe – and that data is private
Google Improves Apps Security, Mobile Collaboration
Alan Reiter's Wireless Web World  
9/20/2010   Post a comment
Google has selectively released improvements to the security, editing, and collaboration capabilities of Google Apps
Germany vs. Google Street View
Editor's Blog  
9/20/2010   10 comments
Germany and Google gear up for a privacy debate, as Google gets set to document Germany's 20 biggest cities on Street View
Comment: Re: Confused - Ariella - 9/20/2010
Comment: Re: Confused - danish.sultan - 9/20/2010
Comment: Re: Confused - chayes - 9/20/2010
Comment: Re: Confused - Terri Eberle - 9/20/2010
Cyberquake Expected in California This Week
Joe Grimm  
9/20/2010   15 comments
A planned exercise will generate maps, models, timelines, and plans for using technologies and the Internet to respond to real disasters
Comment: righty, right on - Chris Poley - 9/20/2010
Comment: Re: Ah, O.k. - Paul Whyte - 9/20/2010
Comment: Re: Confused - Paul Whyte - 9/20/2010
Comment: Confused - danish.sultan - 9/19/2010
Comment: CAPITALISM RULEZ - Kurtkeys - 9/18/2010
Comment: Ah, O.k. - AllenFromMinneapolis - 9/18/2010
Comment: Re: Desparaspora - Paul Whyte - 9/18/2010
Comment: Desparaspora - JHG - 9/18/2010
Diaspora: Fixing What Isn't Quite Broken
Editor's Blog  
9/17/2010   18 comments
Consumers may have been lured into a giant marketing experiment disguised as 'social networking,' but they seem generally OK with that
Stuxnet: Worm for Industrial Sabotage
Jart Armin  
9/17/2010   40 comments
Stuxnet is a uniquely devastating worm aimed at industrial infrastructure that could cause damage on an alarming scale
Comment: Re: One problem - sbewley - 9/17/2010
Comment: Be Cautious! - Princess_dascho - 9/16/2010
Comment: Re: necessary roughness - DHCIR - 9/16/2010
Comment: Re: It does happen... - dlavie - 9/16/2010
Comment: Transparency - mxyzplk - 9/16/2010
IT's Pain: Everything Connects to the Web
IT Clan Editor's Blog  
9/16/2010   11 comments
IT feels the pinch, as more users do more on the Web with more kinds of devices
Comment: Re: It does happen... - kerryf - 9/16/2010
Comment: Trust, but Verify - Versace - 9/16/2010
Consolidating Social Site Info Is Key to ROI
Scott Koegler  
9/16/2010   18 comments
To track information on purchases and offers made to shoppers on social media, an aggregation site for 'loyalty card' data is required
Comment: smartin up people - Chris Poley - 9/16/2010
Comment: Bigger Question - kenton - 9/15/2010
Microsoft on Track for Record Patching Year
Security Clan Editor's Blog  
9/15/2010   23 comments
Patch Tuesday: another widget on your data center security dashboard
Comment: Re: Media Scare? - dlavie - 9/15/2010
Comment: It does happen... - JC Cameron - 9/15/2010
Comment: Re: Media Scare? - chuckgregory - 9/15/2010
Cloud Providers Hope Dashboards Build Trust
Jeff Kaplan  
9/15/2010   11 comments
A range of SaaS players use public dashboards depicting uptime and security on their networks as a trust-building mechanism
Comment: Re: Media Scare? - jwallace - 9/14/2010
Comment: Re: Media Scare? - jwallace - 9/14/2010
Comment: Re: Media Scare? - cjon316 - 9/14/2010
Comment: Re: Media Scare? - cjon316 - 9/14/2010
Comment: Media Scare? - kq4ym - 9/14/2010
Share Location, Get Burglarized
what.the.ferraro  
9/14/2010   18 comments
Let's stop alerting criminals that our homes are vacant.
Risky Business
Singer at C-Level  
9/13/2010   Post a comment
Software vendors are making lofty promises in the area of risk assessment.
Comment: Huawei in Iran - wfoster8560 - 9/11/2010
Comment: Re: We agree - audreypeters - 9/11/2010
Comment: Re: We agree - Alan Reiter - 9/11/2010
Comment: Re: We agree - audreypeters - 9/10/2010
Comment: Re: We agree - Alan Reiter - 9/10/2010
Comment: We agree - Michael P. Kassner - 9/10/2010
Huawei's US Sales Push Raises Security Concerns
Alan Reiter  
9/10/2010   36 comments
Some fear that companies purchasing network gear from Huawei are compromising national security; but other vendors are really no safer
Comment: Re: To err is Human - rwhidbee - 9/10/2010
Comment: To err is Human - SecTech - 9/10/2010
O'Reilly: Innovation Trumps Privacy, for Now
Editor's Blog  
9/9/2010   6 comments
Tim O'Reilly issues a plea to regulators and users to let Web companies make mistakes in the name of innovation
Comment: Unintended Spamming - Kicheko - 9/9/2010
Comment: Harbinger of misfortune? - dln - 9/8/2010
Comment: Re: Deal with it - kenton - 9/8/2010
Forget Email... Social's the New Spam Vector
Security Clan Editor's Blog  
9/8/2010   19 comments
And that's because users of Facebook, Twitter, and other social sites are generally a lot less jaded than your average email user
Comment: Re: Deal with it - Mashka - 9/7/2010
Comment: why all this noise - Mashka - 9/7/2010
Comment: Deal with it - dbergman - 9/6/2010
Comment: Re: inner demons... - aum007 - 9/5/2010
Comment: Re: Scary... - Alan Reiter - 9/4/2010
Comment: another key trend - nasimson - 9/4/2010
Comment: Re: inner demons... - mhhfive - 9/4/2010
Comment: inner demons... - Chris Poley - 9/4/2010
Comment: Scary... - nathanwosnack - 9/4/2010
Anticipating the Worst From Facebook Places
Editor's Blog  
9/3/2010   17 comments
Facebook Places... it will probably end in disaster
Comment: be very 'ware' - cjon316 - 9/3/2010
Apple's 'Terrorware' Patent Could Turn 2010 Into 1984
Alan Reiter  
9/3/2010   53 comments
Apple has applied for a patent on software that would spy on 'unauthorized' users of its devices in a range of ways
RIM Caving on Security
Reiter's Block  
9/2/2010   6 comments
RIM is giving in to demands by India to snoop on encrypted BlackBerry data.
A Cyber-Apocalypse Scenario
Jart Armin  
9/2/2010   21 comments
When an experiment went awry at RIPE last week, researchers got a taste of what a cyber-crime meltdown might be like
Comment: Vendor take - SecTech - 9/2/2010
Comment: Baidu brawl - javeriayounes - 9/2/2010
Vendor Studies Offer Security Barometer
Security Clan Editor's Blog  
9/1/2010   3 comments
A trio of vendor studies can help enterprises triangulate more of their potential risks and vulnerabilities




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Joe Stanganelli   5/20/2013   9 comments
As Mitch Wagner discussed today, Yahoo is acquiring Tumblr. The big Internet debate at the moment is whether Tumblr will be good or bad for Yahoo. Regardless of their stances on the future of Yahoo itself, many claim that Yahoo will somehow ruin Tumblr.
George Taylor
George Taylor   5/20/2013   8 comments
Has China stolen a march on the West, developing an Internet architecture that is not only based on IPv6, but is also inherently secure from both internal and external attack?
Ron Miller
Ron Miller   5/17/2013   19 comments
Recently, the Obama administration has been of two minds where privacy rights are concerned. On one hand, you have an administration that vowed to veto CISPA and mandated open data for government websites. On the other hand, you have an increasingly out-of-control Department of Justice on a fishing expedition at AP and demanding legislation to let the FBI wiretap private, encrypted communications and levy fines if a company fails to comply.
Alan Reiter
Alan Reiter   5/16/2013   31 comments
The apartment and house sharing service, Airbnb, now requires members to verify their identities by demonstrating a presence on the web, and by either scanning a government ID or entering detailed personal details. Other enterprises should take a close look at Airbnb's verification policies.
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Kim Davis
Big-Data Can’t Always Sell Wine

5|21|13   |   2:23   |   No 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   |   No comments


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.
Brian Baron
How Edmunds.com Uses Analytics to Customize Site

3|14|13   |   0:47   |   No comments


The automotive website uses propensity modeling to target ads and customer registration forms, said Brian Baron, director of business analytics for Edmunds.com, at Predictive Analytics Innovation Summit.
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