Hewlett-Packard Co. today announced an extensive security-services portfolio that includes more than 90 basic offerings for application, identity and access management security to business continuity, cloud computing and managed services aimed at businesses and government. “It’s everything from consulting to products to do it in-house to managed services and outsourcing,” says Chris Whitener, chief strategist [...]

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An open-source MDM (master data management) suite from Talend is now available, giving companies a lower-priced option to proprietary products from the likes of Tibco, Kalido and IBM, the company said today. Master data is information used across multiple applications, such as lists of products and customers. MDM tools work to make master data consistent [...]

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The Better Business Bureau, working with technology and financial companies, unveiled a new online educational resource intended to help small businesses get a grip on data and online security. Based on the BB’s numbers, it’s past time for plenty of those businesses and their staffs to go back to school. Fully a third of small [...]

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The upgrade gives Cascade users the ability to monitor Wide Area Networking peformance for end users and in WAN-optimized environments. Riverbed Cascade (formerly Mazu Profiler, which Riverbed acquired when it bought Mazu Networks early in 2009) is designed to “manage, secure, and optmize the performance and availability” of WAN services. In a sign of increased [...]

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Do you know how to guard against scareware? How about Trojan horse text messages? Or social network data harvesting? Malicious hackers are a resourceful bunch, and their methods continually evolve to target the ways we use our computers now. New attack techniques allow bad guys to stay one step ahead of security software and to [...]

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It’s Australia Day tomorrow, and the country’s subjects are using it to mark a week of protests against government plans for compulsory internet censorship. www.internetblackout.com.au/ is calling for opponents of the government’s plans to black out their profile picture on social networking sites, black out their websites, write to their MP and join a real [...]

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Top American boffins have warned that the US government’s efforts to prevent global apocalypse caused by meteor strike are inadequate. The scientists add that nuclear weapons are the only practical means of defence against large, planet-wrecker sized asteroids. In a new report, the US National Research Council says that so-called Near Earth Objects (NEOs) fall [...]

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A rare example of a destructive computer worm has been spotted on the web. Zimuse-A and its variant, Zimuse-B, overwrite MBR (Master Boot Record) files on infected drives with their own data, either 40 days or 20 days respectively after infection. This malicious behaviour corrupts records and makes data recovery difficult if not impossible, anti-virus [...]

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At least three US oil companies were victims of highly targeted, email-borne attacks designed to siphon valuable data from their corporate networks and send it abroad, according to a published report citing unnamed people and government documents. The attacks against Marathon Oil, ExxonMobil, and ConocoPhillips began with emails sent to senior executives that included links [...]

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Where else would Duke need a snorcle, but in an aquarium visiting a glassfish? Thanks to Rich Green for open sourcing Duke. http://blogs.sun.com/jag/entry/ok_it_s_time_to http://duke.kenai.com/

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