Alex Goldman

The list of Internet-ignorant government actions grew by one, although that list was already quite long. A CBS affiliate reported that the city of Bozeman, Mont. is demanding not just account names but also passwords for applicants’ “current personal or business websites, web pages or memberships on any Internet-based chat rooms, social clubs or forums, […]

The nonprofit Identity Theft Resource Center (ITRC) reports that while online breaches get a lot of attention in the media and in the security industry, a great deal of personal data is being lost through the theft of paper, often in dumpster diving, as thieves get social security numbers and other valuable information from the […]

NEW YORK — Samsung today continued its bid to lower the total cost of ownership and power consumption in datacenters with its high density 32GB DDR3 RAM stick. Memory is an often-overlooked element in power consumption. Every memory stick in a server draws power. Multiply several sticker by thousands of servers and you get tens […]

Google already has the technology to protect users from e-mailing while drunk. Surely that’s enough? Not according to a group of security industry experts. The 38 signatories of the open letter to Eric Schmidt, Google’s CEO include such notaries as Bruce Schneier, Ben Edelman, and Jeff Moss. The letter says that Google can set the […]

Sample screen from Golden CashSource: Finjan It’s easier than ever to get access to an unsuspecting PC user’s system — all it takes is money. According to a new report from security firm Finjan, that due to the rise of sophisticated trading platforms designed to facilitate the sale of access to hacked PCs for stealing […]

NEW YORK — If you want to be a publisher, then promote others rather than promoting yourself. “I’m a publisher in print and, it turns out, also on Twitter,” said Tim O’Reilly, founder and CEO of O’Reilly Media, Inc. at the Twitter-centered 140 Characters conference here today. O’Reilly said that being successful in new media […]

NEW YORK — Twitter said that its Web host, NTT America, held off on critical maintenance to its network to ensure that Iranians wouldn’t be cut off from the service, which many are using to communicate with the outside world or organize protests in the wake of the country’s controversial presidential election results. Twitter and […]

NEW YORK — Can Twitter one day beat Google in driving traffic to Web sites? It’s a radical notion, but to venture capitalist Fred Wilson, it’s not an impossibility. Speaking here at the 140 Characters conference today, Wilson discussed the ways in which Twitter could make money — the same way that Google does, by […]

A Verizon Business security expert recently noted that although businesses spend about half of their security budget protecting employees’ PCs and half on servers, over 99 percent of data losses happen on the server, in the RISK team’s experience. Dasient, a security company that has been in stealth mode until now, is now offering a […]

NEW YORK — Vivek Kundra, the CIO of the Obama administration, told attendees at Wired’s Disruptive Innovation Conference that the U.S. government is ready to recognize innovation — because it must. The U.S. government will need to use new technologies in order to deliver on its vision of transparency, a vision that will take a […]

NEW YORK — While many of today’s Web users associate the word “free” with “download”, Wired editor Chris Anderson said that the pricing strategy dates back to the nineteenth century. He said that the free economy was made possible by the industrial revolution and dates back to Jello. Anderson pitched his latest book, called “Free: […]