Database security is a promising segment, driven by compliance and the mandate to protect confidential data. While it is too early to feel comfortable with how database security will evolve and if it will become a market, it is not too early to start sorting out vendor approaches.  There are ...

It’s years ago, and this pilot fish is a developer working for a small company. "Staff consisted of a few programmers, an office manager, a tech secretary and a part-time bookkeeper who’s also the office manager’s live-in boyfriend," says fish. "Things were going as smoothly as could be expected until the ...

I like this press release from Staples. They announced that its electronic waste recycling program has been extended to include used computers, monitors and printers.  Staples will take in electronic junk and ensure that it is recycled in an environmentally friendly way. The equipment does not even have to be ...

I know the title of my post seems kind of obvious, since there are probably a lot more websites on hosting company servers than there are on servers on DSL or cable Internet connections in homes. But the following report from Stopbadware.org is really bothering me.   Stopbadware.org is a badware "Neighborhood ...

Symantec has its latest monthly "State of the Spam Union" report out. A couple of things caught my eye: [REDACTED] is America’s most disgusting hamburger restaurant … food is full of dead insects, such as flies and maggots — delightful little anti-brand spam this. Must be pretty low volume though, ‘cos ...

For those who found the "Am I Hot Or Not" site just too non-geek, here you go: Rate My Network Diagram, at which participants post the docs showing how they’ve put their system together and the rest of the world provides feedback. The idea is to provide a resource for folks ...

Beware of the mad scientist…A techie (or company) who peddles the hopes of saving a business a lot of money by offering a solution with either inferior hardware and/or recommending an open source software solution.  By inferior hardware, I mean using hardware that does not suit a company’s needs.  In theory, a company ...

Less than nine months after SurfControl bought BlackSpider, it seems that Websense is buying SurfControl. Wow. Consolidation still rampant in the anti-spam market, eh? BlackSpider is an email- and Web-filtering service. Variously described as "managed", "hosted", "on demand", or "in the cloud", the service competes with the bigger fish such as MessageLabs, ...

Passwords work, users accept them, IT has to deal with them. We all know that authenticating users and controlling access to application data is the logical starting point for corporate security programs. However, a persistent problem which may potentially be the bigger risk to the business are the credentials hard-coded ...

Cave bucellarii, carpe Thursday’s IT Blogwatch: in which Research In Motion’s BlackBerry network goes down — hard. Not to mention decoding an infrared remote with an electric guitar… Nancy Weil reports: BlackBerry service was mostly restored by late morning Wednesday East Coast time, following a widespread North American outage that started Tuesday ...

The fourth Conference on Email and Anti-Spam (CEAS) is planning a bakeoff this year. In the CEAS 2007 Live Spam Challenge, the organizers hope to simultaneously inject a live stream of spam and legitimate email into several spam filters over a 24 hour period. However, fair comparative testing of spam control ...

I have experienced pain. Excrutiating pain. That pain was caused by the Rinbot worm. But indirectly, this pain was caused by one of my clients whose network is populated by seven-year-old server hardware and Windows NT 4.0 servers (I wrote about the fight in my personal blog Original post by ...