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- Podcast: Inside the OWA attacks, Patch Tuesday wrap-up
- In this podcast with Threatpost co-editor Dennis Fisher, I discuss the recent Outlook Web Access phishing attacks, the Microsoft/Adobe patchapalooza and the true extent of the botnet/malware epidemic. Listen here. by Ryan Naraine
- Blog posts 2009-10-16
- Beatrix Potter Tales. FREE Author's biography & illustrated story in the trial 10.1 (Mobile)
- Indulge Yourself with the best classic literature on Your PDA. Navigate easily to any poem from Table of Contents or search for the words or phrases. Features Navigate from Table of Contents or search for words or phrases Make bookmarks, notes, highlights Searchable and interlinked. Access the e-book anytime, anywhere...
- Software downloads 2009-09-11
- Beatrix Potter Tales. FREE Author's biography & illustrated story in the trial (Mobile)
- Indulge Yourself with the best classic literature on Your PDA. Navigate easily to any poem from Table of Contents or search for the words or phrases. Features Navigate from Table of Contents or search for words or phrases Make bookmarks, notes, highlights Searchable and interlinked. Access the e-book anytime, anywhere...
- Software downloads 2009-09-11
- Intel demos Nehalem EX [video]
- At VMworld 2009 in San Francisco, Doug Fisher, Intel's VP of software and services, talks about experimental work VMware and Intel are collaborating on to reduce overall power consumption inside Nehalem EX. by Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2009-09-02
- Intel demos Nehalem EX
- At VMworld 2009 in San Francisco, Doug Fisher, Intel's VP of software and services, talks about experimental work VMware and Intel are collaborating on to reduce overall power consumption inside Nehalem EX.
- Videos 2009-09-02
- Black Hat recap podcast: SSL, SMS, BIOS rootkits
- In this podcast, I chat with Threatpost.com co-editor Dennis Fisher about the big news coming out of the Black Hat security conference. We discuss the attacks using SMS and MMS, rootkits in keyboards and BIOSes, vulnerabilities in SSL and the response from vendors to these problems. Listen here [mp3]. by...
- Blog posts 2009-08-03
- Workforce Alignment & Optimization - Bridging the Strategy/Execution Gap
- Here is a two part video discussion with Tom Fisher, VP of Cloud Computing and David Karel, VP of Product Marketing at SuccessFactors I recorded at their SuccessConnect Conference. Successfactors, as I wrote earlier this week, provide an Integrated talent performance management...
- Blog posts 2009-06-11
- Siemen's Global SuccessFactors Cloud
- The new Siemens talent managing environment being deployed by SuccessFactors is more like the entire troposphere than a cloud solution; 420k users across 80 countries in 20 languages will be linked and unified in one giant environment. Replacing existing multiple HR talent systems...
- Blog posts 2009-06-08
- The problem with XP ...
- The problem with XP ...it works good enough...simple really.RE: The problem with XP ...I was a Windows 2000 geek from time it hit beta in late 1998 clear through the release of XP SP2, because I hated XP initially... precisely for the reasons you describe in the article.SP2 finally convinced...
- Discussion threads 2009-06-05
- Virtual desktop services gain TCO boost with HP clients, Desktone cloud-based 'DaaS' advances
- HP and Desktone have made strong market moves into the fast-growing desktops as a service Daas space, also know as desktop virtualization and virtual desktop infrastructure VDI. These new products and services show an aggressive ramp-up and sophistication to deliver a fast-track to DaaS. HP and Desktone,...
- Blog posts 2009-06-01
- Churchill Club: 11th annual top 10 tech trends
- In this episode of the Churchill Club podcast series a panel of experts debate the top technology trends. This members only event included the following speakers: Steve Jurvetson, Managing Director, Draper Fisher Jurvetson Vinod Khosla, Founder, Khosla Ventures Joe Schoendorf, Partner, Accel...
- Blog posts 2009-05-21
- Mac OS X vulnerable to 6-month old Java flaw
- Attention Mac OS X users:Â Turn Java off immediately or you could be at high risk of malicious code execution attacks. Tired of waiting for a patch from Apple for a Java flaw that was fixed upstream six months ago, Mac developer Landon Fuller (of Month of...
- Blog posts 2009-05-20
- Microsoft's latest "Laptop Hunter" ad
- Microsoft's latest "Laptop Hunter" adAnother joke from MicrosoftYou can get a laptop for $300 dollars, why did they give her $2000? Since the quality, user experience, usability, stability, resale value, ownership costs, capabilities, etc never seem to fit into this lines of commercials, what is the use of giving $2000?...
- Discussion threads 2009-05-06
- SuccessFactors lands big deployment, new cloud computing VP
- SuccessFactors, which offers on-demand human capital management software, said Wednesday that it has landed a deployment of 300,000 users bringing its user base to 4.5 million. In addition, it has named former eBay exec Tom Fisher as vice president of cloud computing. The 300,000 user deployment was...
- Blog posts 2009-04-29
- Microsoft tackles patch management metrics with Project Quant
- In partnership with security analyst Rich Mogull right, Microsoft is set to roll out a new research project to help businesses compute the total cost of the patch-management cycle, from testing and distributing a fix to user deployment of the patch. According to this Dennis Fisher report...
- Blog posts 2009-04-15
- Microsoft adds 'Skywing' to Windows defense team
- Ken 'Skywing' Johnson, a well-known hacker famous for his work on bypassing several Windows anti-exploitation mechanisms, has joined the software maker to help make it harder to compromise the operating system. Johnson, who teamed up with another recent Microsoft hire -- Matt 'Skape' Miller -- on several...
- Blog posts 2009-03-25
- Countdown to Philly ETE 2009
- The Emerging Technologies for the Enterprise 2009 conference starts Thursday in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. I'll be attending the conference this year, and speaking at a session on Android development. Keynote speakers include: Michael Tiemann, Vice President of Open Source Affairs at Red Hat and...
- Blog posts 2009-03-23
- Researchers demo BIOS attack that survives hard-disk wipe
- A pair of Argentinian researchers have found a way to perform a BIOS level malware attack capable of surviving even a hard-disk wipe. The researchers -- Alfredo Ortega and Anibal Sacco from Core Security Technologies -- used the stage at last week's CanSecWest conference to demonstrate methods...
- Blog posts 2009-03-23
- Threatpost launches as best practice for enterprise IT and social media
- While social media represented measurable success for many consumer-focused companies, there is still a lot of learning to be done in terms of how enterprise technology-focused companies leverage social media. And while many are having luck using collaboration tools or even white label social networks for improving internal communications or...
- Blog posts 2009-03-20
- Browser wars: the platform wins
- Panel: Arun Ranganathan Mozilla, Chris Wilson (Web Platform Architect, Microsoft), Brendan Eich (CTO, Mozilla Foundation), Charles McCathieNevile (Chief Standards Officer, Opera Software), Darin Fisher (Software Engineer, Google) Browser experts from Mozilla, Google, Microsoft, Opera, and the Webkit project are all here. ...
- Blog posts 2009-03-16
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