Alex Goldman

Where are the boundaries between public and private life on social networks? That question was highlighted today with reports that the Associated Press (AP) had told reporter Richard Richtmyer that he violated company policy when he posted a comment on Facebook post in which he allegedly said that management rather than staff should be suffering […]

Upgrade your desktop version of Adobe Acrobat or reader now. Adobe (NASDAQ: ADBE) issued a patch fixing critical flaws in its popular software yesterday, on the same day that Microsoft released its own massive package of fixes. “Adobe categorizes this as a critical update and recommends that users apply the update for their product installations,” […]

Phishing and spam are intimately related on the Internet, as spammers use phishing attacks to secure access to victims’ accounts on trusted Web sites, such as Twitter and Facebook, according to two reports from Symantec. “It is important that end users are educated and it is important that IT managers take measures against attacks,” said […]

Ed Whitacre may have done well during his tenure as head of SBC / AT&T if you compare the company’s performance to its industry peers, but that sets a very low standard. Whitacre earned tens of millions of dollars per year. However controversial his salary, his retirement was even worse PR for AT&T. Not known […]

Although a blog reported yesterday that T-Mobile was hacked, all the hackers actually seemed to have was a list of T-Mobile server names. A T-Mobile spokesperson told InternetNews.com in an e-mail, “Following a recent online posting that someone allegedly accessed T-Mobile servers, the company is conducting a thorough investigation and at this time has found […]

SuccessFactors announced this week what the company believes is the largest private cloud deployment in the world. The company’s on-demand HR software will support 420,000 users across 80 countries in 20 languages for electronics giant Siemens AG. Lars Dalgaard, CEO of SuccessFactors (NASDAQ: SFSF), called it “the worlds’ largest known Enterprise Cloud Computing deployment” in […]

A new report called “Charting the Path: Enabling the ‘Hyper-Extended’ Enterprise in the Face of Unprecedented Risk — Recommendations from Global 1000 Executives” says that IT departments can manage the new risks they face if they confront underlying issues. The report is published by the Security for Business Innovation Council unit of RSA, the security […]

The Internet is different in China, and not just because of the Great Firewall (arriving soon on desktops too). A report from Symantec, the State of Phishing monthly report for May, published in June, shows that while phishing attacks in most countries focus on gaining access to banking credentials, attacks in China focus on gaining […]

Phishing and spam are intimately related on the Internet, as spammers use phishing attacks to secure access to victims’ accounts on trusted Web sites such as Twitter and Facebook, according to two reports from Symantec (NASDAQ: SYMC). “It is important that end users are educated and it is important that IT managers take measures against […]

Gartner may have predicted that the government will have the largest private clouds, but some private sector clouds are getting up there. These databases contain hundreds of terabytes (TB) or even petabytes (PB) of data about visitor behavior on the Web’s largest sites. eBay (NASDAQ: EBAY) has two databases totaling 8.5 PB, one based on […]

McAfee is unveiling its enterprise network security strategy today, underpinned by the company’s Network Security Business Unit (NSBU). At $500 million in annual revenues, the NSBU is already large, but Dan Ryan, executive vice president and general manager of the group, has been charged with boosting revenues to $1 billion per year. He told InternetNews.com […]

Secretary of Defense Robert Gates said earlier this year that the Department of Defense (DoD) must be able to train 200 cyber security experts, up from 80 now. How about the whole U.S. government? There’s a clear need in agencies as diverse as energy, aviation, and, of course, defense. “We are conducting a national competition […]