NEC and CA Technologies team to secure smartphones & tablets

NEC has teamed up with CA Technologies to develop a cloud-based security service based on CA technology that will be offered to telcos and content service providers to enable them to manage and secure their customers' smartphones and tablets.
 

NZ ‘getting on with IT’, but caution prevails: report

New Zealand IT decision-makers are optimistic, but cautious, about their investment plans this year, and an analyst report just published suggests that businesses will just get on with business as usual and still spend on IT despite the prevailing caution.
 

Microsoft's Valentine message: apply these patches!

What better Valentine's Day gift could there be for a systems administrator than a bouquet of nine long-stemmed Microsoft security patches?
 

ACMA names-and-shames Sydney-based spammers

It's probably quite difficult to annoy the ACMA, but when your spamming gets beyond a joke, expect to be thrust into the spotlight.
 

Hitachi first with 25nm SLC NAND flash enterprise SSD

Hitachi GST claims its latest Ultrastar solid state drives are the first enterprise-class SSDs to use 25 nanometre SLC NAND flash memory technology.
 

Social media scams go mainstream

Where the good guys go, the bad guys follow. The popularisation of social media services such as Facebook and Twitter has led to malicious links becoming commonplace.
 

Major web security camera vulnerability

The mantra has always been "build it and they will come."  But too often it's translated to "build it with vulnerabilities and hope they won't notice." When it comes to TrendNet's web-capable cameras, unfortunately, the world has noticed.  
 

Using business logic as a hacking vector

Imperva's latest analysis of the hacking landscape shows that the bad guys know as much about your business as you do.
 

'Hactivism' now the leading driver of DDoS attacks

Ideological motivation has emerged as the primary driver for distributed denial of services (DDoS) attacks, outstripping the previous dominant drivers of financial gain.
 

Review - DLink DCS-930L Wireless N Home Network Camera

With improving broadband, ubiquitous home networks and consistent improvements in camera technology, the time is ripe for easy to install home security cameras. The DLink DCS-930L Wireless N Home Network Camera is cheap and easy to install.