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BYOD Stirs Up Legal Problems

Does BYOD put your company in murky legal water? You bet. Employees need protections, too.

By Tom Kaneshige

May 9, 2012 4 mins

Legal Privacy Smartphones

Police-themed Ransomware Starts Targeting US and Canadian Users

'Police Trojan' locks down computers and asks their owners to pay a fine for violating several laws

By Lucian Constantin

May 9, 2012 3 mins

Intrusion Detection Software Security Windows Security

Wireless Carrier CEOs Focus on Spectrum and Trust

Leading mobile carrier CEOs at CTIA Wireless 2012 say trust is central to consumer/carrier success and argue for improved customer relations. The looming shortage of spectrum and the need for more wireless capacity was also a hot topic of discussion.

By Kenneth Corbin

May 9, 2012 4 mins

Carriers Small and Medium Business Smartphones

Ask RIM Q&A, Hosted by Al Sacco at BlackBerry World 2012 (Audio)

Couldn't make it to Orlando for BlackBerry World 2012 and CIO.com Senior Editor Al Sacco's Q&A with RIM executives? No worries. We've got the full BlackBerry World audio from Sacco's session.

By Al Sacco

May 9, 2012 2 mins

Mobile Small and Medium Business Smartphones

PHP Patches Actively Exploited CGI Vulnerability

PHP 5.4.3 and PHP 5.3.13 include fix for PHP CGI vulnerability that is being actively exploited to compromise websites

By Lucian Constantin

May 9, 2012 3 mins

Enterprise Applications Patch Management Software Security

Samsung, Qualcomm Team to Advance Wireless Charging

Looking to standardize wireless chargers that can repower multiple devices from different manufacturers simultaneously, industry players form technical alliance in the in hopes of winning broad industry support.

By Kenneth Corbin

May 9, 2012 3 mins

Carriers Small and Medium Business iPhone

Hollywood’s Top 12 Tech Heroes

From the gothic Lisbeth Salander in "Girl with the Dragon Tattoo" to the brainy Mark Zuckerberg in "Social Network," blockbuster movies have recently elevated the tech geek from quirky sidekick to cool hero (or anti-hero). While t

By Tom Kaneshige

May 8, 2012 5 mins

IT Leadership

Twitter Resists Subpoena to Release User’s Data Without Warrant

A judge erred when ruling a person does not own content he posts to the service, Twitter said

By Jeremy Kirk

May 8, 2012 3 mins

Legal Privacy Social Networking Apps

FCC Chair Touts ‘All of the Above’ Spectrum Plan

In remarks at CTIA, Julius Genachowski announces new federal spectrum-sharing initiative, signals agency plans to begin work on incentive auctions later this year.

By Kenneth Corbin

May 8, 2012 4 mins

Carriers Regulation Small and Medium Business

Twitter Says Many Leaked Passwords Inaccurate, Duplicates

Many accounts were used for spamming and have been suspended, Twitter said

By Jeremy Kirk

May 8, 2012 1 min

Data Breach Social Networking Apps

Financial Malware Tricks Users with Claims of Free Credit Card Fraud Insurance

Tatanga malware asks victims to approve rogue transfers in order to activate free credit card insurance from their banks

By Lucian Constantin

May 8, 2012 3 mins

Fraud Intrusion Detection Software Security

How to Avoid Big Data Spending Pitfalls

The Big Data hype machine is in full swing. While the promise is great, Big Data projects also can be an expensive trap if you fail to prove the business case or give your vendors leverage over you.

By Thor Olavsrud

May 8, 2012 6 mins

Business Intelligence IT Strategy Virtualization

Zynga Sues French Game Publisher for Copyright Infringement

Zynga has asserted a claim on the "ville" family of marks

By Loek Essers

May 8, 2012 3 mins

Legal

Advertising Company Settles Over Alleged Facebook ‘likejacking’ Scam

Adscend Media wil pay $100,000 in court fees; it settled a second lawsuit with Facebook last week on undisclosed terms

By Jeremy Kirk

May 7, 2012 2 mins

Legal Social Networking Apps

Technical problems disrupt Euronext trading in Amsterdam

The disruption of the stock exchange is exceptional, according to an online broker.

By Loek Essers

May 7, 2012 3 mins

Financial Services Industry Networking

PHP Working on New Patch for Critical Vulnerability After Initial One Failed

Upcoming PHP updates will address two known remote code execution vulnerabilities

By Lucian Constantin

May 7, 2012 3 mins

Enterprise Applications Patch Management Software Security

Apple Engineering Mistake Exposes Clear-text Passwords for Lion

An attacker could potentially decrypt information secured with an older version of FileVault, Apple's encryption technology

By Jeremy Kirk

May 6, 2012 3 mins

Data and Information Security Windows Security

Tech Partnerships: Hits, Misses and Too Soon to Tell

In the tech world, acquisitions, mergers, partnerships and product investments seem to happen every day. The latest buzz-worthy partnership is between Microsoft and Barnes & Noble. Here are some other recent, and less recent, tech unions that eit

By Shane O'Neill

May 4, 2012 7 mins

Mergers and Acquisitions

BlackBerry World Roundup: What to Know About RIM’s ’12 Show

RIM held its annual BlackBerry World conference in Orlando this week, where the Canadian company made a number of significant announcements and unveiled a few surprises. CIO.com's Al Sacco was on the scene, and he shares his picks for the most n

By Al Sacco

May 4, 2012 8 mins

Mobile Small and Medium Business Smartphones

IT Budgets, Cybersecurity Top Federal CIO Concerns

New survey from TechAmerica reveals the mounting pressure facing agency CIOs to do more with less, as budget cuts imperil new initiatives such as cloud computing and data-center consolidation.

By Kenneth Corbin

May 4, 2012 5 mins

Budgeting Government Government IT

Samsung Can Challenge Apple’s Photo Gallery Patent Before Ruling on Infringement

A German regional court has suspended its ruling on infringement until the Federal Patent Court has determined if the patent is valid

By Loek Essers

May 4, 2012 3 mins

Developer

Email Product Looks to Reduce Spam False Positives

TrustSphere looks at the relationship between senders, which can be a better indication of whether a message is spam or not

By Jeremy Kirk

May 4, 2012 2 mins

Security

Tech’s 10 Most Famous College Dropouts

Who says you need a college degree to be successful? Here's a look at 10 tech titans who dropped out and made it big…really big.

By Kristin Burnham

May 3, 2012 4 mins

IT Leadership

10 Must-Have Gadgets for the Traveling Executive

Members of an increasingly mobile workforce can suffer from gadget overload. From smartphones, tablets and notebooks to a wide variety of peripherals for security, battery charging and productivity on the go, deciding which devices to pack can be a d

By Paul Mah

May 3, 2012 5 mins

Consumer Electronics Mobile Small and Medium Business

Hackers Blackmail Belgian Bank with Threats to Publish Customer Data

The hackers call their a!150,000 demand an "idiot tax" because the information was unencrypted on the bank's web server

By Loek Essers

May 3, 2012 2 mins

Data Breach Data and Information Security Intrusion Detection Software

NASA Says No Sensitive Information Breached in Unknowns Hack

The group has been on a weeks-long hacking binge, hitting the U.S. Air Force website and others

By Jeremy Kirk

May 3, 2012 2 mins

Security

Cisco to Acquire Real-time Network Analytics Firm Truviso

Truviso claims to be able to analyze up to 500,000 data records per second

By Loek Essers

May 3, 2012 2 mins

Financial Services Industry Mergers and Acquisitions

10 Predictions for What the CIO Role Will Look Like in 2020

CIOs can expect their jobs to change dramatically by the end of the decade. Expect an increased role in everything from business planning and cybersecurity to robot management and, of course, the cloud.

By John Brandon

May 3, 2012 7 mins

CIO Enterprise Innovation

For the First Time, Hacked Websites Deliver Android Malware

Lookout Mobile Security has spotted the first malware to automatically load itself onto Android devices via hacked websites

By Jeremy Kirk

May 2, 2012 2 mins

Mobile Security Small and Medium Business

Cloud Computing Gains in Federal Government

Industry leaders see rapid Federal government uptake in infrastructure-as-a-service, citizen-facing applications as agency CIOs warm to the new dynamic of cloud computing.

By Kenneth Corbin

May 2, 2012 5 mins

Government Government IT Private Cloud

Dutch Court Temporarily Frees 17-year-old KPN Hacking Suspect

The teenager is freed on the condition that he does not use the Internet at all

By Loek Essers

May 2, 2012 2 mins

Data Breach Data and Information Security Fraud

How to Add Organ Donor Status to Facebook

Facebook launched a new profile feature that it hopes will solve the organ donation crisis. Here's how to sign up to be a donor and add it to your profile.

By Kristin Burnham

May 2, 2012 2 mins

Facebook Social Networking Apps

German Court Grants Motorola an Injunction Against Windows 7 and Xbox

Microsoft is confident it will be able to keep doing business in Germany

By Loek Essers

May 2, 2012 3 mins

Legal Small and Medium Business Windows

Microsoft Detects New Malware Targeting Apple Computers

Apple users should be sure their Mac version of Office has up-to-date patches

By Jeremy Kirk

May 2, 2012 2 mins

Microsoft Office Office Suites Security

A Closer Look at RIM’s BlackBerry 10 Dev Alpha Smartphone

RIM has unveiled the first smartphone running its next-generation BlackBerry 10 software. The device is meant only for developers, however, and won't ever be released to the public. CIO.com's Al Sacco shares a number of images of the new Bl

By Al Sacco

May 1, 2012 3 mins

Mobile Small and Medium Business

Google’s BigQuery Offers Infrastructure to Crunch Big Data

Google today announced the general availability of its cloud-based BigQuery Service, an online analytical processing (OLAP) system designed for crunching terabyte-scale datasets using the search engine giant's infrastructure.

By Thor Olavsrud

May 1, 2012 4 mins

Business Intelligence Developer IT Strategy

iPad in the Enterprise: IT Must Stay Ahead of the Curve

In a wide-ranging interview, an Apple expert shares real-world experiences about iPads in the enterprise, mobile device management and BYOD. Key takeaways for IT: Don't improvise when it comes to iPad adoption and don't get bypassed by rogu

By Tom Kaneshige

May 1, 2012 6 mins

Mobile Security Project Management Tools iPhone

HGST Announces 12Gbps SAS SSDs for Use in Enterprise Data Centers

The SSDs with faster connectivity aim to make data centers faster and improve scalability

By Loek Essers

May 1, 2012 2 mins

Data Center Servers

Skype Investigates Tool That Reveals Users’ IP Addresses

Skype said the issue is present in other peer-to-peer systems

By Jeremy Kirk

Apr 30, 2012 2 mins

Security VoIP

Symantec: Flashback Malware Netted Upwards of $10,000 a Day

The malware that plagued Apple Macs is engineered to fraudulently click ads

By Jeremy Kirk

Apr 30, 2012 2 mins

Security

Targeted Attacks Increased, Became More Diverse in 2011

The latest Internet Security Threat Report by Symantec finds that targeted attacks are becoming more common and are going beyond the public sector and large enterprises to smaller, less well defended companies in the supply chain and partner ecosyste

By Thor Olavsrud

Apr 30, 2012 7 mins

Malware Security Viruses

Developer Builds Privacy-enhancing Web Browser for Apple Devices

The Onion Browser uses the TOR anonymizing network for browsing on an iPhone and iPad

By Jeremy Kirk

Apr 30, 2012 2 mins

Browsers Security

CIOs: Will You Be Relevant in 2017?

Columnist Adam Hartung says CIOs are in danger of becoming irrelevant if they focus on old technologies and practices. He advises that you forget what worked in the past and focus on technologies that will delight employees and customers in the futur

By Adam Hartung

Apr 30, 2012 3 mins

CIO

Texas Supermarket Stocks Up on iPhones, Mobile Apps

Texas grocery store chain United Supermarkets starts down the iPhone trail with a mobile workforce management app that simplifies communication and keeps shift schedules under control. But this Lone Star chain has only begun circling the mobile wagon

By Tom Kaneshige

Apr 27, 2012 4 mins

BPM Systems Retail Industry iPhone

Researcher Misinterprets Oracle Advisory, Discloses Unpatched Database Vulnerability

Confusion over credits in Oracle's April 2011 Critical Patch Update advisory led to unpatched vulnerability being disclosed

By Lucian Constantin

Apr 27, 2012 4 mins

Data Management Patch Management Software Security

Evernote to Offer its Idea- and Note-capture Tool for Businesses, CEO Says

Evernote for business is going to launch within the next couple of months

By Loek Essers

Apr 27, 2012 3 mins

Cloud Computing Enterprise Applications Internet

Critics and Supporters Respond as House Clears CISPA Cybersecurity Bill

Privacy concerns remain after the U.S. House of Representatives passes bipartisan bill to provide for streamlined information sharing among businesses and government agencies.

By Kenneth Corbin

Apr 27, 2012 3 mins

Cybercrime Government Regulation

Facebook Hacker Comes Clean on ‘what Really Happened’

Glenn Mangham of York, England, said he meant no harm and hoped Facebook would let him off the hook

By Jeremy Kirk

Apr 26, 2012 3 mins

Security

Engineers Ponder Easier Fix to Dangerous Internet Problem

Internet traffic can be maliciously routed in order to spy on communications

By Jeremy Kirk

Apr 26, 2012 4 mins

Security

Security Experts Warn of Cyber Threats From Iran

Cyber experts press for greater efforts on the part of civilian and military agencies to address threats from Iran, warning a joint House subcommittee that the Islamic Republic continues to expand its cyber arsenal.

By Kenneth Corbin

Apr 26, 2012 4 mins

Cybercrime Government Regulation