IDG News Service According to researchers at Kaspersky Lab, cybercriminals are trying to sell hacked Twitter user names and passwords on-line for hundreds of dollars. Since 2005, the bad guys have been developing new data-stealing malware that is now a growing problem on the Internet. Some of these programs look for banking passwords, others hunt [...]

At the Game Developers Conference in San Francisco on Thursday morning, Microsoft demonstrated its Surface technology, the companys nascent touch-based computing platform. Microsoft Surface is a platform both literally and figuratively. Surface devices take the form of a table with a 30″ diagonal interactive screen as its top, intended for collaborative play and interaction. The [...]

Telecoms and media giant Virgin Media added 38,300 new cable subscribers in the first quarter of 2010, boosting overall revenue to £963m, up 2.9 per cent year on year. Virgin Media chief executive Neil Berkett said Higher gross additions, low churn and increased ARPU average revenue per user enabled us to deliver year-on-year cable subscription [...]

Computerworld Monday was a big day for Twitter. President Barack Obama sent his very first tweet yesterday during a visit to the American Red Cross headquarters in Washington D. C. The president, who noted in November that he had never sent a tweet, has a very active Twitter account. Obviously, a ghost writer make that [...]

CIO With most enterprise applications, the executive champions and the user community are typically measured and have manageable expectations. Think accounting. With CRM, it isnt necessarily so. CRM Definition and Solutions Despite the user communitys urgent calls for this or that functionality, CRM is still enterprise software that needs to be done with an architecture [...]

CSO In February 1999 I wrote a magazine article entitled, “Free Lunch” that focused on the Advanced Encryption Standard AES selection process and the need to avoid proprietary cryptographic algorithms. The uniqueness of the entire AES process was that it was akin to a large town meeting the process was open to the public and [...]

NEW DELHI, INDIA The Indian Council for Research on International Economic Relations ICRIER, along with Indicus Analytics, released a report, The Issues of Competition in Mainframe and Associated Services in India, recently. Also Read Global server market decline softens Gartner The report calls for lending serious thought to issues of free and fair competition, entry [...]

From a data security standpoint, it been a miserable year for Penn State University. As eSecurity Planet reports, the university is dealing with yet another serious data breach on campus after school officials confirmed that one its research computers was commandeered by a botnet for an unknown length time, potentially leaking the Social Security numbers [...]

Before the recession, corporate green IT agendas were on target. When times got harder, green turned to red as cost cuts were made. Organisations shelved their green strategies, but were missing a trick. They treated greenIT too much as an environmental gesture rather than an opportunity to do more with less. Most abolished or delayed [...]

Information security organisations will run a series of national public competitions as a way of recruiting staff for the UK’s future cyber security workforce. The Cyber Security Challenge UK is being held by industry leaders who have designed, built and implemented a range of online games that aim to replicate the problems cyber security professionals [...]