Thursday, June 29, 2006

EMC Announces Definitive Agreement to Acquire RSA Security, Further Advancing Information-Centric Security

EMC Corporation (NYSE:EMC - News), the leader in information management and storage, and RSA Security Inc. (NASDAQ:RSAS - News), the leader in protecting and managing identities and digital assets, today announced a definitive agreement for EMC to acquire RSA.

Wednesday, June 28, 2006

Industry vows fight on child porn

Thousands of child pornography images will be collected into a database to prevent further distribution, a group of online companies has announced.

Monday, June 26, 2006

Keeping Your Data Safe

The loss of a computer with the Social Security numbers and other personal data of some 26.5 million Americans who served in the armed forces is the latest reminder of how vulnerable consumers are.

Wednesday, June 14, 2006

Burton Group Catalyst Conference

I am at this conference for the next two days... interesting cross-section of topics in the conference. In general, the conference itself is a bit slow and dry. People are talking about the same things over and over --

1) Compliance drivers
2) Business and Technology marriage
3) Management needs to be involved
4) yada yada yada...

Hopefully I will learn something from being here!

Friday, June 02, 2006

Hackers hit Swedish police site

Police said the site was taken offline after it was overloaded by net data.

Thursday, June 01, 2006

Ernst & Young laptop loss exposes 243,000 Hotels.com customers

The Register can again exclusively confirm the loss of the Hotels.com customer information after having received a copy of a letter mailed out jointly by the web site and Ernst & Young. A Hotels.com spokesman also confirmed the data breach, saying Ernst & Young notified the company of the laptop loss on May 3.

Extortion virus code gets cracked

Do not panic if your data is hidden by virus writers demanding a ransom. News here.