Category: Tech
It’s hard to get a good job in IT these days, but it’s all too easy to lose one. There are lots of reasons for instant termination. Failure to fulfill your obligation to protect your employer’s digital assets or abusing your vast powers for your own nefarious ends are two sure ways to end up […]
Locking your mobile device is important because it’s often your first line of defense. It may not be the strongest form of security, but it could prove to be the difference in protecting your organization by keeping the device locked down until mobile device management measures like remote wiping are put into play. Here are […]
eye-popping Black Friday tablet, computer & tech deals Apple iPads, latest Android and Windows machines all in for big discounts. Oh, and free snow globes. Retailers large and small started leaking their Black Friday circulars even before trick-or-treating began this year. Websites like BFads.net do a great job of rounding up the deals, and we […]
In an economy marked by conflicting indicators, technology companies are looking to hire more employees over the next year, but worry that there will not be enough qualified candidates to fill the vacancies, according to a new survey from the trade group Technology Councils of North America. TECNA’s poll of more than 1,700 technology executives […]
Kids may no longer embrace email, but it ain’t going away any time soon. Here’s why. Forward-looking social media enthusiasts like to predict the end of email as we know it. Indeed, there are plenty of signs that millennials, in particular, prefer other methods of electronic communication, using email primarily to communicate with their clueless […]
HP, IBM, Cisco and Juniper among those slimming down this year This by no means has been the bloodiest year of layoffs in the technology industry, not that this is any comfort for the thousands who lost their jobs this year. The good news is that market watchers say the economy is slowly improving and […]
The editorial team at CSO were targeted by a phishing campaign recently. If it had been successful, the person(s) behind it would have tricked us into installing the Zeus Trojan, which is financial malware. Lucky for us, however, our user awareness training took hold, and we used some basic logic in order to spot the […]
Cloud enthusiasts blame processes, not technology While cloud enthusiasts roaming the halls of McCormick Place convention hall in Chicago last week at Cloud Connect may be high on the market, the reality is that many enterprises IT shops are still reticent to fully embrace public cloud computing. Network World asked some of the best and […]
Vulnerability could lead to denials of service VMware today said that its popular virtualization and cloud management products have security vulnerabilities that could lead to denials of service for customers using ESX and ESXi hypervisors and management platforms including vCenter Server Appliance and vSphere Update Manager. To exploit the vulnerability an attacker would have to […]
Enterprises, cloud providers and carriers all rely on Ethernet, complicating the push for a faster standard As it embarks on what’s likely to be a long journey to its next big increase in speed, Ethernet is in some ways a victim of its own success. Years ago, birthing a new generation of Ethernet was relatively […]