Saturday, March 22, 2008 9:31 PM/EST
A couple of nice guys from SanDisk paid me a visit the other day at my New York office to unveil their version of endpoint security. I took the meeting because, frankly, I was intrigued by the idea that a...
Wednesday, February 20, 2008 10:26 AM/EST
Jerome Kerviel's scheme that cost France's Societe Generale more than $3.5 billion has captured the world's attention to the threat of insider hacking, but it's the case of Heinrich Kieber that should get people's attention. Kieber, a former employee of...
Sunday, February 03, 2008 7:17 AM/EST
Not once, not twice, but three times last week major undersea Internet cables were severed, disrupting service between Europe and India and severely decreasing bandwidth availability to much of the Middle East. These remarkably coincidental physical breaks are the stuff...
Sunday, January 27, 2008 7:19 PM/EST
Reports are circulating that the Central Intelligence Agency is openly warning about the "real" threat of foreign hackers' ability to infiltrated the U.S. power grid. The message is short and crystal clear: If the threat isn't recognized and precautions taken,...
Thursday, January 17, 2008 9:38 AM/EST
The new movie "Untraceable" is a variation of an old murder-mystery theme, in which the self-proclaimed invincible antagonist taunts authorities with his ability to elude them. Rather than leaving obvious clues that lead to dead-ends, the Untraceable killer uses a...
Tuesday, December 11, 2007 8:49 AM/EST
The State of Maine is going to court to reclaim a public document that fell into private hands, citing a statute that says a public document remains public until it is expressly released by the government authorities. The document...
Thursday, March 22, 2007 4:43 PM/EST
If the charges are true, what was SAP thinking?