Small Business

Unlimited Data Storage Space: A Good Thing or the Sword of Damocles?

Posted by on April 6, 2011 at 8:43 am

“Does not Dionysius seem to have made it sufficiently clear that there can be nothing happy for the person over whom some fear always looms?” – Cicero I walked into a local electronics store the other day and saw a 2TB SATA hard drive for $80, and a 3TB drive was on sale for about [...]

WeR1 v Cyberlynk: Ethics and Danger in the Cloud

Posted by on April 5, 2011 at 4:07 pm

A recent lawsuit involving WeR1 World Network and CyberLynk Network brings up the issue of ethics, responsibility and danger in the much hyped “Cloud” storage utility that has been agressively pushed by most of the major vendors in recent times. The gist of the case is that a disgruntled employee of Cyberlynk managed to log [...]

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 – [...]

Is Samsung Installing Keyloggers on Laptops?

Posted by on March 30, 2011 at 2:29 pm

UPDATE: It has now been confirmed that Samsung laptops do not contain keyloggers or spyware. UPDATE: Samsung has issued a statement saying that the finding is false. The statement says the software used to detect the keylogger, VIPRE, can be fooled by Microsoft’s Live Application multi-language support folder. This has been confirmed at F-Secure and [...]

The AT&T, T-Mobile Merger: Small Business Implications

Posted by on March 26, 2011 at 9:37 am

AT&T Inc.  and German telephone company Deutsche Telekom AG recently announced that they have entered into a definitive agreement under which AT&T will acquire T-Mobile USA from Deutsche Telekom in a cash-and-stock transaction currently valued at approximately $39 billion. The lofty goals of this acquisition according to the AT&T Press Release are as follows: Blog [...]