Google’s “Interesting” Week (Jean-Louis Gassée/Monday Note)
Jean-Louis Gassée / Monday Note:Google’s “Interesting” Week — Let’s start gingerly, with Nokia. You’ll recall the indignation when Nokia threw Symbian under the Windows Phone 7 bus and osborned its existing product line. Nokia dead-ended Symbian handsets, causing sales to plunge while everyone waited for the new MicroNokia smartphones.
Sony: The Company That Kicked the Hornet’s Nest (Business Week)
Business Week:Sony: The Company That Kicked the Hornet’s Nest — The PlayStation data breach comes shortly after Sony sued and prosecuted hackers — There’s an Internet phenomenon called the Streisand Effect. It happens when a person or company tries to suppress a piece of information and, in so doing, unintentionally popularizes it.
How many hours you spent a week on computer security issues?
for things like anti-virus scan, firewall, pop up blocker, spyware, etc.
Apple may surprise with near immediate availability of iPad 2 next week (Kasper Jade/AppleInsider)
Kasper Jade / AppleInsider:Apple may surprise with near immediate availability of iPad 2 next week — While media reports have shed considerable doubt on Apple’s capacity to facilitate a full-scale launch of its second-generation iPad in the short term, AppleInsider has reason to believe that customers could be holding …
Google Gets 75,000 Job Applications in One Week, Topping Record Set in ’07 (Brian Womack/Bloomberg)
Brian Womack / Bloomberg:Google Gets 75,000 Job Applications in One Week, Topping Record Set in ’07 — Google Inc., the world’s biggest Internet-search service, received more than 75,000 job applications worldwide last week, setting a record for the company as it embarks on a hiring spree.
Week in review: Phishing, Kneber botnet and Microsoft vulnerabilities – Help Net Security
Adobe’s PDF format and standard has been known for a while now to be easily exploitable and, thus, rather insecure. In the past, attackers have taken advantage not only of its vulnerabilities, but of its features as well. And as Adobe has recently …
Week in review: Cybercrime victims, PayPal phishing and Moxie Marlinspike – Help Net Security
Imperva announced their predictions for the top ten security trends for 2011 which have been compiled to help IT security professionals defend their organization against the next onslaught of cyber security threats. The arrival of a slew of new and …
Week in review: Facebook, phishing and social … – Help Net Security
Google just rolled out SSL encryption to Google Search. The option is currently in beta, therefore the users aren’t automatically transferred to https. There is a new Facebook focused worm circulating around. Currently it seems that it doesn’t have …
Remote Control (Rich Jaroslovsky/Business Week)
Rich Jaroslovsky / Business Week:Remote Control — LogMeIn Ignition turns an iPad into a remote control for your other Web-connected computers. It may be the iPad’s first indispensable app — Don’t tell Steve Jobs, but I’ve been running Adobe Flash (ADBE) on my iPad. Windows 7, too.
Denver’s website hacked twice in one week – Denver Post
… such attack … proclaimed “VIRuS—Ra3ch was here,” and included a warning in code: “W3 C4n’t H4ck A4y Thing ~ But W3 H4ck Wh4t W3 W4nt & your Security Information Has Been Passed Off,” as well as an e-mail address and website. In Colorado …
