Security
Huawei, ZTE get banned in India; Security risk the main reason
By Tarry Singh at 8 May, 2010, 7:14 am
When it comes to China’s Big Two, though, India’s policies are hardly favorable. The government has sent letters to Indian phone companies saying they can’t buy equipment from Huawei, ZTE, and several other mainland companies due to security risks. In April, researchers reported that Chinese hackers had targeted Indian defense computers. And in December, India [...]
Read More >>Google China meltdown: Google stops censoring; redirects to its Hongkong site
By Tarry Singh at 22 March, 2010, 2:50 pm
Google Inc., following through on a promise to stop censoring search results in China, began redirecting traffic from its Chinese home page to the company’s unfiltered Hong Kong site, outside of mainland China. Google will offer uncensored results in simplified Chinese, designed for users on the mainland, according to a blog post today. The move [...]
Read More >>Apple’s App Store Infographic story : How developers are getting super rich!
By Tarry Singh at 12 January, 2010, 11:40 am
Infographic works a lot better for visually enslaved folks like me, how about you? Nice piece of work those guys at Column Five Media do, maybe I gotta check it out later.
Read More >>Microsoft goes after Symantec, McAfee with free Security Essentials for home users!
By Tarry Singh at 21 September, 2009, 10:45 am
Ina reporting: Microsoft first announced its plans for the product, then code-named Morro, last November, at the same time the company said it was scrapping its paid Windows Live OneCare product. Public beta testing of Security Essentials started in June, with Microsoft reaching its goal of 75,000 testers just one day after it issued a [...]
Read More >>Cloud Punishement: Commonwealth Bank CIO and team take a pay hit on online outage
By Tarry Singh at 12 September, 2009, 10:46 am
Before we start jumping to conclusions I just want to point ou to some funny facts of a financial institution where you and I lend/save our money in. A bank gets hacked and is badly hit by DOS attacks. Didn’t they have any form of security in place? Anything? I’ll leave you guys to decide. [...]
Read More >>HyTrust Security Appliance 1.5: vSphere ready,Two-Factor Authentication, label based support and more!
By Tarry Singh at 25 August, 2009, 6:43 am
HyTrust is growing in popularity and truly filling the security gap that most security vendors were filling in within their own silos. I will also be speaking at the RSA Europe Event 09 which is organized by the HyTrust folks. MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif.–HyTrust Inc., a leader in policy, security, and configuration management for virtualization infrastructure, [...]
Read More >>Clouds aren’t safe!
By Tarry Singh at 5 August, 2009, 10:04 am
At last week’s Black Hat USA conference in Las Vegas, a number of security researchers demonstrated new ways of attacking cloud computing services. One of the more notable presentations, “Clobbering the Cloud,” looked at the vulnerabilities in Amazon’s cloud infrastructure, Apple’s MobileMe service, and Salesforce.com’s cloud platform. Another demonstration showed how both Microsoft and Amazon [...]
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Online Privacy? There is no privacy, get over with it!: Amazon peddles with Kindles with remote delete on all devices
By Tarry Singh at 19 July, 2009, 5:46 am
Scott McNealy said long ago during Sun’s glory days back in 99: “Get over it!”. In an online world, this is true and most of us (subconsciously) know it. We all know and (somehow) fear God or anything that exists up there depending on your beliefs, but with online everything is being stored in large [...]
Read More >>Snort’s creators to enter the virtualization security market!
By Tarry Singh at 6 July, 2009, 3:09 am
The new software, which will be released in the last quarter of 2009, is intended to work with machines running VMware’s virtualisation software, but Sourcefire says other virtual environments, such as those from Citrix Systems Inc. and Microsoft, may be supported later. While virtualisation offers companies the chance to reduce the number of physical servers [...]
Read More >>Mokafive Suite launches: Desktop as a service is … at your service
By Tarry Singh at 22 June, 2009, 11:23 am
I am not that much of a supporter of VDI or desktop virtualization. It really is a matter of time before we have gen3 apps move to RIA/RWA gen4 apps and all that VDI will end up in the dead pool of all software vendors…but Mokafive, since its inception, always has intrigued me. This is [...]
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