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If you're an Apple iPhone user and security's not on your mind, you're at risk; at risk of having a Web mail account hacked; at risk of having your online identity stolen; and at risk of losing valuable personal information, such as wireless service account data, that could result in financial losses, among other disasters.

Perks pale in comparison to challenging job responsibilities for Gen Y employees. Learning coaching basics can make the difference between mere compliance and active contribution and problem solving

Whether it's the latest health and safety rule, security standard or accounting regulation, an increasing reliance on automation to track company assets and trading activities has made IT a major part of the compliance agenda.

This in-depth review investigates how the two social networking sites compare for business purposes

I was just beginning to contemplate the formulation of the thought to back up my files when my desktop suddenly died. While waiting for it to rebuild, I read an article telling me that the desktop computer was dead

No, that's outside our policy" may not quite have the finality that IT folks remember from long ago. Instead, we've entered into the age of technology consumerization, social computing, populism, or whatever you want to call it -- and there's no going back. The net result -- if IT says no, what's to prevent an employee from, as they say, just doing it?

It's a good time to be a malicious hacker. That's because even though it's not a time of revolutionary new techniques in hacking for profit, business is booming for the established methods. Despite increased investment in information security defenses, the good guys continue to lag badly behind. According to one report by Sophos, which called the recent uptick in ­malware a "deluge," by April 2007, more than 250,000 websites were hosting malicious code and more than 8,000 were being added to that total every day.

What factors give some technologies staying power, while others come and go? We put the question to Esther Dyson — technology pundit, investor, conference organizer, and all-around mover and shaker

Two of the agencies most actively involved in bringing cyber-criminals to justice in the United States have expressed opposing opinions over pending anti-spyware legislation.

Economics is the study of how human beings allocate scarce resources. And in this Age of Big Information, when we all must be knowledge omnivores able to digest a steady diet of news and information coming at us through media as diverse as smart phones, computers and televisions, there can be little doubt that the scarcest and most precious resource is attention.

A $US1 billion lawsuit filed Thursday promises to open up a new front in the battle against spam: It targets not just spammers, but - for the first time - also those responsible for harvesting e-mail addresses on behalf of spammers.