Gates-Seinfeld schtick more viral than 'I'm a PC'--The two Gates-Seinfeld commercials have enjoyed 4.3 million more viral-video views than Microsoft's replacement "I'm a PC" campaign, according to Visible Measures.
Open source can still win in a down economy--Economics are on the side of open source--the best value for money means enterprises can continue to grow during the economic downturn.
Marc Fleury's OpenRemote gets into databases with Beehive--The OpenRemote project kicks off a central, open-source database for managing home-automation codes.
It's the product, stupid: branding firms and industrial design--Carl Alviani describes a trend that has been emerging for a while now: Not only do digital agencies like R/GA enter the branding domain, branding, marcom, and advertising firms also round out their services portfolio by adding product design capabilities.
Two Europeans indicted over U.S. cyberattacks
A 24-year-old from England and a 25-year-old from Germany face conspiracy and computer damage charges related to a large-scale DDoS attack resulting in major financial losses. Hack and tell: Teen hacker Mafiaboy writes memoir
Michael Calce, aka "Mafiaboy," who shut down major Web sites in 2000, has written a tell-all book that is due out next week. Ex-McAfee lawyer acquitted in stock options backdating trial
Kent Roberts is the first executive to be acquitted on stock options backdating-related charges. Skype: We didn't know about security issues
The company's president says he knew its Chinese partner filtered messages, but he was unaware that it was storing personal information in an insecure way. 'Internet safety' may be an oxymoron
Reports on clickjacking, which enables a PC to get infected when a user clicks on a disguised Web link, point out that when it comes to Web browsing, there is no such thing as "security." Report: Adware supplies one third of all malware
New figures show increased use of adware to deposit malicious software on victims' desktops, according to Panda Security. Estonia posts its cybersecurity strategy
Report seeks to establish good cybersecurity practices within the country while urging global condemnation of all cybersecurity threats in the future. New phishing attempt targets bank customers
Latest phishing threat exploits confusion over consolidation in banking industry to try to get information out of e-mail recipients for online financial theft and identity fraud. All the news that's fit to exploit--Google Trends
Security firm sees trend in cybercriminals looking to Google Trends to find ways to lure victims to malicious Web sites. People can do more to guard against ID theft, says group
While a new law will give victims of identity theft greater restitution for the damages they suffer, a study shows people can better protect themselves from cybercrime. Researchers find security holes in NYT, YouTube, ING, MetaFilter sites
Attackers could have used vulnerabilities on several Web sites to compromise people's accounts, allowing them to steal money, harvest e-mail addresses, or pose as others online.
Disaster Recovery in
information technology is
the ability of an infrastructure
to restart operations after a
disaster. While many of
today's larger computer systems
contain built-in programs for
disaster recovery, standalone
recovery programs like
FirstDefense-ISR often
provide enhanced features.
Disaster Recovery is used both
in the context of data loss
prevention and
data recovery.
There are two primary metrics to
demonstrate recoverability
following failure:
Recovery Point Objective
(RPO) is the point in time
that the restarted
infrastructure will reflect.
Essentially, this is the
roll-back that will be
experienced as a result of
the recovery. Reducing RPO
requires increasing
synchronicity of
data replication.
Recovery Time Objective
(RTO) is the amount of time
that will pass before an
infrastructure is available.
Reducing RTO requires data
to be online and available
at a failover site.
When critical data loss occurs
without a preventive disaster
recovery policy in place
data recovery becomes the
only option.