The shameful state of business Internet security
By Davey Winder in Editorial
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Webroot Software, the people behind the Spy Sweeper anti-malware solution, today published the results of its State of Internet Security report, and it makes for shameful reading. If I was to pull out two of the findings and mark them up as big red headlines they would have to be:
43 Percent of All Businesses are Suffering Disruptions Due to Malware
Over 60 Percent Don
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Sex on a stick: the HTC UMPC
By Davey Winder in Editorial
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Although I would hate for people to think that I am your stereotypical tech geek, I am rather afraid it is too late to be rescued from that conclusion: the happygeek domain and nickname, the almost sexual obsession with gadgets, and the fact that I am drooling like a baby over the HTC Shift just from the press release, and some months before it will be available in the US let alone these shores, pretty much seals the geek deal.
So why am I dribbling onto the keyboard of my Sony TR5 sub-notebook as I type? My hands all sweaty on the sliding keyboard of my T-Mobile badged but HTC manufactured MDA Vario II (see my review here) smartphone? Simply because the release from HTC suggests my dream device of something that combines the best bits of both these mobile computing marvels could soon be with us. And that is good news because I have just about destroyed the keyboard of the TR5 and have been looking for a sexy replacement that is at least as small if not a little smaller. I was tempted by the Asus WF5e with the Vista Sideshow powered lid mounted secondary screen, but the cost and size put me off. I have liked the concept of a UMPC but so far all the first generation devices have been, how can I put this tactfully, I can
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IT PRO Business Traveller Report
By Davey Winder in Editorial
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I thought I would join in this become a travel writer for a day malarky, as I have just returned from a week spent working in Rome.
Things got off to a poor start thanks to the weather, as I had to catch a flight from Heathrow early on Tuesday morning. Unfortunately, the snow and freezing weather had arrived up north where I live and work over the weekend. Which meant that to get to Heathrow in time to make my 8am flight I had to leave home at 2am to allow for the fact that I would have to drive well below the speed limit to remain safe on the motorway. Anyhow, the drive wasn’t too bad as there was precious little other than a few trucks and I arrived at the Pink Elephant business car park at 5am.
This is my first tip for anyone flying out of Heathrow who has to take their car, book online in advance at Pink Elephant. Not only do you get a good price, 50% off the drive-up rate, which equated to four days secure parking for
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PlayStation 3: Medical Research Tool
By Davey Winder in Editorial
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Who said that the PlayStation 3 was just for the young folk? Researchers at Stanford University certainly have an alternative view of the gaming console and the really rather impressive processing power it possesses. They reckon it is a perfect fit for membership of the Folding@home project, and Sony would appear to agree seeing as it has said the next software upgrade will include a feature to enable end users to join up
Anyone who remembers the SETI search for extraterrestrial intelligence distributed computing project will be right at home with the 200,000 PC strong number crunching effort that is Folding@home or FAH for short. The project started life 7 years back and has the not insignificant aim of understanding how protein folding works and ultimately simulating this to enable discovery of the cause of diseases such as Alzheimer
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Run EICAR test if you are a ZoneAlarm user
By Davey Winder in Editorial
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If you have recently upgraded to ZoneAlarm Security Suite 7, as reviewed by my good self for our sister publication PC Pro, then you had better check that the Kaspersky powered anti-virus component is working properly.
As reported here, in some circumstances, for some users, the AV signature file can get corrupted during the update process causing AV protection to fail. Trouble is, unless you run an EICAR test yourself you won’t know it has failed, your PC will just be unprotected and you will be none the wiser.
ZoneAlarm developer Check Point has confirmed that there is a bug that only impacts some users, and that an upgrade patch will be made available later this week.
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Shocking Spyware Statistics
By Davey Winder in Editorial
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Two sets of spyware survey results passed across my radar today, and both make for the by now usual shocking reading.
The first came by way of Webroot Software, Internet security developer of anti-spyware kit for consumer, enterprise and SME markets. This particular poll surveyed some 3000 consumers with regard to their understanding of external Internet threats to their PCs, something that should be of interest to all IT admins considering that it is just these kind of consumers whose resources are zombified and become part of the botnets that can cause such havoc to the enterprise by way of DDoS attack.
Sadly, despite 87 percent of UK consumers insisting that they do understand the spyware threat and the dangers that it brings, nearly 50 percent also went on the admit to having fallen victim to just such a threat. This suggests that although user awareness is increasing, which is a good thing, advanced spyware development is also on the up, which obviously isn
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Aliens spotted on Web
By Davey Winder in Editorial
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You really have got to see this to believe it, and even then you might not.
The usually sane folk over at IBM OmniFind Yahoo! Edition a really rather good, and totally free, entry level enterprise search application, have launched UFOCRAWLER.
As the name implies, it is a search engine of the X-Files variety, dedicated to uncovering references to alien stuff.
I’m pretty sure it isn’t April 1st as well…
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The Internet is full, will all teenagers please leave
By Davey Winder in Editorial
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Now that the number of Internet users globally has exceeded 1 billion, there are worrying reports of an asylum seeker tabloid style debate paranoia emerging: no more users, the Internet is full in fact.
Well, not in fact at all, there is plenty of room. I tested this theory myself by hooking a new laptop up to it and discovered it worked quite well. Indeed, I currently have four computers, one smartphone and streaming media device all online at the same time and none of them have fallen off as of yet.
But yet there are still
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How Internet filth can save you money
By Davey Winder in Editorial
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When it comes to playing buzzword bingo a current high scoring phrase is dirty data. This applies to the kind of flawed data that can be found within most large enterprise systems, everything from the totally inaccurate to dodgy duplicated in fact. Gartner even reckon that at least 25% of the critical information used by Fortune 1000 companies falls into the dirty data category.
But how boring is that?
Which is why I am not going to waste any more time talking about that crap, instead I shall spend my valuable minutes toilet typing.
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