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12:50 PM Wednesday, July 23, 2008
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Won’t it be neat to know which customers your competitors are calling on? Or perhaps the number of salespersons they have in a particular geography? How about the technical details of that “top secret” product they’re developing? You would think that
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02:58 AM Wednesday, May 28, 2008
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It’s been nearly 10 years since Scott McNealy famously admonished a bunch of reporters: “You have zero privacy. Get over it!” Nowhere has this statement been driven home harder for me than the few minutes I spent on pipl and ZabaSearch , free websites
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04:47 PM Tuesday, April 15, 2008
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These days, you hear a lot more about “consolidation” and “maturity” in the security industry than about innovation. VC investments in security startups have halved over the last 2 years. And a recent survey by Goldman Sachs indicates that the growth
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02:13 AM Wednesday, March 12, 2008
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Despite energetic community efforts and the blooming of a thousand identity initiatives , the path to profits for online consumer identity services has proved remarkably elusive. Sxip Identity , one of the best-known identity startups and helmed by identerati
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02:37 AM Tuesday, March 04, 2008
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One of the more intriguing ideas to bubble out of the virtualization ecosystem is VMCasting – the notion of distributing virtual machines via RSS feeds. Coined by Enomaly , an open source consulting firm best known for Xen management tool Enomalism and
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07:27 PM Tuesday, February 19, 2008
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Individuals can be authenticated either with something they know (username/password), something they have (smartcard) or something they are. The last category, better known as biometrics, comes in multiple flavors, which include fingerprints, faces, irises
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02:13 AM Tuesday, January 15, 2008
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How do you know if it’s a real human trying to sign up for an account on your website or posting a comment on your blog, or whether it’s simply a software bot leaching your resources? The most common way today is to subject the alleged human to a CAPTCHA
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09:06 PM Monday, January 07, 2008
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Hackers are constantly trying out new attack vectors. One recent ploy has been to plant links to malware on hijacked or fake blogs that are disguised as holiday e-cards. A variation of this is where unsuspecting users are tricked into downloading malware
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02:12 PM Wednesday, November 07, 2007
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Securent, one of the first companies in Microsoft’s Startup Accelerator Program , was recently acquired by Cisco for $100M. Securent provides a cross-platform, cross-application software solution that gives companies fine-grained control over who gets
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01:15 AM Saturday, October 27, 2007
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During a meeting with a startup this week, the presenter's machine froze up mid-demo in a flurry of errors. Priming for the usual jibes about Windows stability, I was surprised when the blame was heaped instead on the PC's anti-malware/firewall software.
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06:45 PM Saturday, October 20, 2007
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Connecting your mobile phone to a Wi-Fi network can be a dicey affair. First, you have to hope that the login page loads properly on your browser. Next, you have to fumble with punching in credentials on a tiny keypad. Devicescape has an elegant solution
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02:47 AM Sunday, October 14, 2007
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An old friend recently pinged me through Facebook asking for my contacts. She had lost everything on her hard disk, she explained. But this was no run-of-the-mill hard disk failure. Her computer had been infected with a strain of malware that had encrypted
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