Intel revealed more details about the planned successors for its current-generation Sandy Bridge processors at its Intel Developers Forum in San Francisco this week. Coming in the second quarter of 2012 will be Ivy Bridge, a 22nm die-shrink “tick” to Sandy Bridge’s “toick.” Ivy Bridge will benefit from Intel’s new 3D tri-gate transistor technology, offering [...]
EU adoption of cloud services is being held back by inconsistent approaches to security in the laws of member states, Google has told the European Commission. The company’s submission is part of a public consultation that will help to shape future EU policy on a range of issues raised by cloud services, such as security [...]
Britain, embarrassed earlier this year by its apparent inability to block Rupert Murdoch from expanding his empire, is to examine new ways to measure the influence of media owners and whether limits should be set.
Murdoch’s News Corp withdrew a bid to buy the rest of pay-TV group BSkyB it did not already own in July, [...]
IT security in an increasingly complex threat environment needs to be more about management than technology performance, according to Eric Domage, program manager for IDC in Europe.
IT professionals need to stop buying security performance and move to buying and selling business performance, he told the IDC Security Conference 2011 in London. “Performance is not a [...]
Symantec this week introduced what it calls the Symantec Certificate Intelligence Center, a cloud-based service that works with an on-premises software component to keep track of SSL server certificates used by an organization.
“Every SSL certificate comes with a shelf life, as they expire in one, two or three years,” says Amar Doshi, Symantec senior manager, [...]
Sophos says criminals will likely circumvent built-in anti-virus to be shipped with Microsoft Windows 8 next year.
Windows 8 will ship during the third quarter of 2012 and comes bundled with Microsoft Security Essentials (MSE) that contains anti –viruses and -spyware tools. Microsoft on Tuesday released a preview of the new operating system to developers during [...]
StrikeForce Technologies, a small vendor of a keystroke encryption technology, is accusing Microsoft of not acting fast enough to fix a browser issue that it says is preventing StrikeForce’s technology from working with Internet Explorer 9.
The problem was first reported to Microsoft, and acknowledged by the company, in April, said George Waller, executive vice president [...]
The FBI is probing allegations that a number of Hollywood celebrities have been hacked, after semi-naked pictures of Scarlett Johansson leaked onto the internet, the agency said.
The photos, apparently taken by the actress herself, were published on gossip websites, while there were reports also of a hacked picture of Justin Timberlake, taken by actress Mila [...]
SAP has agreed to pay just over US$20 million to settle a criminal case brought against its TomorrowNow subsidiary.
SAP Chief Financial Officer of Global Customer Operations Mark White pleaded guilty Wednesday on behalf of his company to charges that employees of TomorrowNow accessed Oracle’s customer support portal without authorization and illegally downloaded software and support [...]
U.S. and Australian officials have decided to include cooperation on cyber security as part of their defense treaty, marking the first time the Obama administration has formally carved out that kind of partnership with a country outside NATO.
The agreement is particularly critical considering the ongoing cyber threat emanating from the Pacific region, especially China and [...]