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A School Grows In Brooklyn 02 April, 2001 14:37:27
With help from the back-office outfit for the New York Stock Exchange, an inner-city school that taught jewelry repair is transforming into "IT High," where students seek Cisco training certificates - +
The IPO Dash 16 February, 2001 12:59:28
Many online entrepreneurs are learning that the overseas climate can be harsh - or at least one heck of a learning experience. It's not so much that money is a problem - although funding is always a great challenge.Think the race to liquidity is tough on you? Here are three overseas Web startups facing low online penetration, inadequate infrastructures and cultural quirks. - +
Auction Blocks 22 September, 2005 10:09:24
Criminals use online auctions as a place to unload stolen, diverted and counterfeit products. EBay does little to stop them, creating more work for CSOs. Here's what smart companies do. - +
E-Mail Hell 11 November, 2002 11:10:46
It opens your company's door to viruses and spam that can cause financial, ethical and legal nightmares. It can strain bandwidth limits and escalate storage costs. Clearly, an enforceable e-mail usage policy is fundamental to controlling e-mail.The Greek gods who sentenced Sisyphus to an eternity of rollin' that boulder up the mountain, watchin' it roll back to earth and then startin' all over again knew their Advanced Mental Torture 1.01. There are few things more poisonous than having to waste great slabs of time on profitless and ultimately ineffectual hard yakka. - +
IT Autopsy 06 April, 2001 14:15:50
No longer an obscure component of network security, computer forensics has blossomed into a science all its own
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Spammer faces jail time for envelope-stuffing scheme 03 July, 2003 07:58:39
An e-mail spammer who promised people cash for stuffing envelopes in a bogus work-at-home scheme has agreed to pay more than US$200,000 to victims and may be sentenced to close to five years in prison for wire fraud, the U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC) announced Wednesday. - +
Zero-Day Malware Attacks You Can't Block 28 February, 2007 15:00:34
Here's what you should know about zero-day hazards and the security holes they exploitYou're no security slouch. You keep your programs up-to-date, and you have antivirus installed. You're careful about where you surf and what you install on your computer. - +
12 quick IT productivity wins 02 March, 2007 16:14:47
Quick tips to boost your productivityStop us if this story sounds familiar. You've been asked to a) keep your infrastructure humming and b) come up with innovative ways to use technology to boost the bottom line. Meanwhile, your resources are stretched tighter than a US$2 string on a banjo and you spend so much time putting out fires you should be wearing a helmet and carrying a hose. - +
Emergency services conference tackles critical infrastructure issues 10 February, 2006 10:05:08
Australia's only officially recorded attack on critical infrastructure will be dissected and analyzed next week at the Association of Public Safety Communications Officials (APCO) annual conference. - +
Hacker found guilty in massive data theft case 16 August, 2005 08:05:15
Florida resident Scott Levine was found guilty Friday of stealing massive amounts of customer data from information management company Acxiom.A Florida man was found guilty of stealing data from customer information management company Acxiom Friday. The prosecution estimates that Scott Levine and his defunct bulk e-mail marketing firm Snipermail.com stole more than 1.6 billion customer records by hacking into an Acxiom server.
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A gang of East London software pirates are to go behind bars after being found guilty of running a multimillion pound software counterfeit racket.
The gang, convicted at the Old Bailey on March 16, is due to be sentenced on April 6. The pirates are believed to have sold counterfeit Microsoft software worth millions of pounds throughout the UK, including software worth thousands to St Albans City District Council.
The group's mastermind, Sikander Qureshi, 55, was convicted of conspiracy to defraud Microsoft, as was Shaheen Parveen, 42, her brother Babar Manzoor, 25, who jumped bail and fled to his native Pakistan, and Zafar Ahmed, 40.
A Heathrow airport customs officer accidentally intercepted a package containing hundreds of counterfeit Microsoft CDs sent from Thailand and destined for Qureshi's East London accountancy practice. Hackney Council Trading Standards officers swooped on Qureshi's office where they found a shrinkwrapping machine, counterfeit software and cellophane.
When the police caught up with the crooks, bank records revealed the pirates had profited by over £1.5m, much of which was transferred to friends and relatives in Pakistan. Police have only recovered a small sum of money including £96,000 in cash that was found in a safety deposit box.
Her Honour Judge Pearlman, presiding, said, "TheseÂ… are nothing but grave offences and are serious enough for me to pass nothing but custodial sentences."
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CIO Live Podcast #79: Brent D Taylor, author of The Outsider's Edge: The Making of Self-Made Billionaires Part II 05 October, 2007 06:00:00
For his new book, The Outsider's Edge: The Making of Self-Made Billionaires, social researcher Brent D Taylor spent four years of intensive research investigating the psychological make-up and backgrounds of some of the world's richest men and women, including IT luminaries Bill Gates, Larry Ellison and Steve Jobs. Taylor discovered that, despite working in different industries and coming from different upbringings, they all have one thing in common -- they are all outsiders. - +
CIO Live Podcast #78: Brent D Taylor, author of The Outsider's Edge: The Making of Self-Made Billionaires 28 September, 2007 17:34:25
For his new book, The Outsider's Edge: The Making of Self-Made Billionaires, social researcher Brent D Taylor spent four years of intensive research investigating the psychological make-up and backgrounds of some of the world's richest men and women, including IT luminaries Bill Gates, Larry Ellison and Steve Jobs. Taylor discovered that, despite working in different industries and coming from different upbringings, they all have one thing in common -- they are all outsiders. - +
CIO Live Podcast #77: Panasonic Speeds Up Trans-Pacific File Transfers, Part III 21 September, 2007 07:00:00
Part three in our three-part special report from CIO's sister publication Network World in the US, as Paul Desmond reports from the Network World IT Roadmap Conference in Santa Clara, California. With development teams in the US and Japan, Panasonic needed a more efficient way to move very large files between the two locations. Iben Rodriguez, IT consultant for Panasonic Research and Development, explains how a storage-area network and virtual server technology helped speed up WAN performance. - +
CIO Live Podcast #76: Panasonic Speeds Up Trans-Pacific File Transfers, Part II 14 September, 2007 07:00:00
Part two in our three-part special report from CIO's sister publication Network World in the US, as Paul Desmond reports from the Network World IT Roadmap Conference in Santa Clara, California. With development teams in the US and Japan, Panasonic needed a more efficient way to move very large files between the two locations. Iben Rodriguez, IT consultant for Panasonic Research and Development, explains how a storage-area network and virtual server technology helped speed up WAN performance. - +
CIO Live Podcast #75: Panasonic Speeds Up Trans-Pacific File Transfers, Part I 07 September, 2007 07:00:05
Part one in our three-part special report from CIO's sister publication Network World in the US, as Paul Desmond reports from the Network World IT Roadmap Conference in Santa Clara, California. With development teams in the US and Japan, Panasonic needed a more efficient way to move very large files between the two locations. Iben Rodriguez, IT consultant for Panasonic Research and Development, explains how a storage-area network and virtual server technology helped speed up WAN performance.
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Phishing botnet expands by hacking legit sites 15 May, 2008 08:10:59
Plants SQL injection attack tool on bots, hacks business, education sitesA botnet is now using a SQL-injection attack tool designed to hack legitimate Web sites, a move meant to add more hijacked PCs to its collection, according to a security researcher. - +
Which IT security skills are most important? 14 May, 2008 09:21:43
There are two types of security skills that might be needed in a company: tactical security operations and strategic risk management.I often hear from IT executives that it is hard to recruit and retain "good security people." Many lament the shortage of skills in this area and cannot reconcile the skills offered with the positions that need to be filled. Is there really a shortage of good security people? Or just a mismatch in the skills and the jobs? - +
Icy encryption tool protects laptops from "cold boot" attack, vendor says 14 May, 2008 08:36:43
Vulnerable encryption keys erased by HyBlue's IceLockThe vendor HyBlue says it can prevent the "cold boot" encryption hack discovered by Princeton researchers with a laptop security product announced Tuesday. - +
Great Wall of Australia: Industry cops sanitised Internet 14 May, 2008 16:45:04
Content filtering gets budget go-aheadCommunications Minister Stephen Conroy has pushed ahead with the controversial [[artid:420013177|national content filtering scheme|ISP filtering]] with a $125.8 million budget allocation announced today. - +
Hacker writes rootkit for Cisco's routers 15 May, 2008 07:07:51
A hacker has written rootkit software that works on Cisco's routers.A security researcher has developed malicious rootkit software for Cisco Systems' routers, a development that has placed increasing scrutiny on the routers that carry the majority of the Internet's traffic.
Quantum announces General Availability of Industry's First Solution Designed to Match De-Duplication Functionality to Specific B 16 May, 2008 10:44:00
Hansen Technologies Extends Contract With Tokyo Electric Power Company 16 May, 2008 09:44:00
More Than 140 Higher Education Institutions Worldwide Use RightNow on Demand CRM 15 May, 2008 18:06:00
DST International Names Rob Gould as Director of Business Development and Strategy for Australia 15 May, 2008 15:40:00
WatchGuard Issues 45 Day IT Network Security Reminder for Achieving PCI DSS Compliance 15 May, 2008 11:33:00
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