China is stepping up efforts to keep the security systems that protect its critical infrastructure in the hands of local firms, and that could be bad news for companies based outside the country.
Lumber Liquidators is attributing a weak third quarter to a complex SAP implementation, saying the project imposed a significant drain on worker productivity. But the problems appear to be largely related to employees having trouble acclimating to the new system, versus malfunctions in the software itself.
'Get the dislike button!' 'OMG this girl KILLED herself after her dad posted on her wall!' What do these comments have in common? They are two of the scams we see making the rounds on Facebook in an attempt to get you to click on and install a bad application. The Facebook con popping up everywhere this week is the 'total profile views' ruse. It's another version of the 'See who viewed your profile' trick that makes its way around the social network and plays to the user's ego and desire for information ab
A few companies in the Fortune 500 need to upgrade their Web browsers. And while they're at it, a little in-house training on social engineering wouldn't be a bad idea, either.
AT&T received some bad news from Consumer Reports this week, as the magazine's latest survey shows that the carrier now has the lowest level of customer satisfaction in the United States.
If you want to watch Internet-delivered video on your PC, the vast majority of Web sites have settled on a single, consistent way to do that. That's the good news. The bad news is that this single, consistent delivery system is Adobe Flash, with all its security and stability issues.
Buried amid the announcement of the new Palm Pixi smartphone was the news that the price of the Palm Pre will drop to $150 after rebates. What gives with Palm and Sprint? Is the pricing move a a reaction to poor sales? Could it foretell a cut-rate price for the smaller Pixi? Not likely.
Businesses are eyeing a transition to Microsoft Windows 7, and with a wealth of security features that are part of it, it's worth figuring out the good and bad about each of them, says Gartner analyst Neil MacDonald, who notes in some cases, third-party security products might be the better fit.
As Linux fans know, there are two kinds of hackers: the good guys who develop free software, such as the Linux kernel, and the bad guys who break into computers.
Security researchers have found three bugs in Symantec's Scan Engine security software, which could be exploited by attackers to gain control of the Scan Engine server, or inappropriately gain access to files.
ORLANDO -- Microsoft used its VoiceCon Orlando keynote today to attack the desk phone and traditional telephony vendors in general as a hindrance to cost savings that businesses need to realize in order to deal effectively with the bad economy.
John Martinicky has seen good years and bad years in his time with Navistar International, a Warrenville, Ill.-based manufacturer of heavy trucks and engines. Martinicky has been with the company more than 30 years, and has served in the security department since 1982. He was recently named a 2009 Compass Award winner by CSO.
LAS VEGAS -- Radio frequency ID tags embedded in U.S. passports can be read hundreds of feet away, potentially making it inexpensive and easy to pick American tourists out of crowds for illicit purposes, "spychips", a demonstration at Black Hat 2010 showed.
Legislation in the U.S. Congress intended to create new regulations for the U.S. financial industry tops a list of bills that are bad for the Internet, because it would remove safeguards on the rulemaking authority of the U.S. Federal Trade Commission, an e-commerce trade group said Thursday.
Ottawa-based software company Corel Corp.'s decision to cut 20 per cent of its global workforce is the first restructuring move since going private last November, but one analyst said it won't be the last of the bad news before the company finds its staffing level more closely matched with its in-market performance.
On the heels of AT&T's disastrous attempts to fight back against Verizon's clever "there's a map for that" ad campaign (Luke Wilson? Is that all you got?) comes more bad news for those who've hitched their smartphones to Ma Bell's wagon.
Could the H1N1 flu virus give networks a bad case of congestion? It could if workers and students are forced to stay home because of the pandemic and networks aren't prepared for a deluge of Internet traffic.
I love old technology as much as the next techno-geezer, but come on, it wasn't all wonder and goodness. After we're done reminiscing about the good old days of operating systems, let's reflect on the bad old days of operating systems as well. After all, the bad times are still with us -- even in 2009, there are still some wretched operating systems out there.