Enterprise Computing

The “Free Trial” Trap and How To Avoid It

Posted by on May 14, 2011 at 11:32 am

We’ve all been subjected to it: ” Install our software or hardware and use it for 30-60 days and if you do not like it, simply remove it and you will get your money back, no questions asked”. Well, there-in lies the problem – that no questions are being asked. Have you ever subscribed to [...]

Breaching the Bastille: When Security Vendors Get Hacked

Posted by on May 14, 2011 at 10:17 am

The recent rash of exposures about successful attacks against information security vendors may come as no surprise to a lot of people in the information security world who probably see or hear about it frequently, but it will surely come as “shocking” to most “ordinary” folks. HBGary, RSA, Comodo and Barracuda Networks are the latest [...]

The Cloud And Your Business: Where is Your Umbrella?

Posted by on May 4, 2011 at 1:06 pm

That there is a lot of hype in the technology industry about “the cloud” is pretty obvious these days. You will be hard pressed to  read an article about technology (this one included) without some reference to the beauty, ease and affordability of cloud services. The argument is that IT infrastructures have become too complex [...]

APTs and Small Businesses: Hype or Real?

Posted by on April 1, 2011 at 10:04 am

A new buzzword seem to emerge every few hours these days. If it’s not “Cloud”, it is “DLP”. One of the latest, in the security field at least, is “APT”. For Debian-based Linux users, we think of Aptitude, the update tool when we hear the word Apt. This APT refers to Advanced Persistent Threat – [...]

The Comodo Hack: How Serious Is It?

Posted by on March 30, 2011 at 9:17 pm

The recent Comodo hack seems to be a lot more serious than initially thought with the latest information that the hacker was actually able to wipe a hard drive on the Comodo server. To quote the gloating hacker: Some stupids in internet still cannot understand I’m behind the attack on SSL, talks about their small [...]