Fewer than half of European businesses are ready for the cloud
Given the hype surrounding it, it’s easy to believe that the cloud is increasingly the first choice when it comes to business systems.
Yet a new survey by IDC reveals that a majority of European IT departments have yet to fully embrace its benefits. When asked about their readiness to move to a cloud-based strategy levels of confidence were low.
Heartbleed bug not exploited before disclosure
The Heartbleed bug has gone down in history as one of the most serious flaws to affect the internet. But new research reveals that prior to its disclosure in April there's no evidence of Heartbleed having being exploited.
The disclosure of Heartbleed sent websites scrambling to apply patches. However, a study by academics at a number of US universities allays fears that the flaw may have been exploited for surveillance by government agencies before it became public.
CEOs take to social media to gain business benefits
A new infographic created by social insight tool company Refresh looks at over 1,300 CEOs on social media to determine how they use the technology.
Not surprisingly it's younger CEOs that are most likely to embrace social media, with 61 percent being under 40. Some 89 percent are male though that perhaps reflects the low number of female CEOs rather than their willingness to use social tools.
Shippable wants to help developer teams innovate faster
In a fast-changing world there's demand for new applications to be delivered quickly and traditional development processes often can't keep pace.
Seattle-based startup Shippable has announced a new version of its platform that helps developers to innovate and deliver more quickly using open source Docker containers. Docker -- in case you didn't know -- isolates resources of the Linux kernel to allow independent software containers to run on one Linux platform without the need to launch virtual machines. Docker containers can be run on any Linux machine whether on site or in the cloud.
Dyreza trojan may pose a risk for Salesforce users
A warning has gone out to customers of Salesforce.com that the Dyreza trojan, previously targeted at banking sites, may be a risk to users of the CRM solution.
The malware uses social engineering techniques to get the victim to infect the system via email. Once installed it uses "browser hooking" to allow Dyreza to intercept content entered by the user into the web browser before that content is transmitted over the network to a web site. Critically this allows the interception to occur before the data is encrypted.
iOS performance in the spotlight ahead of Apple's launch event
In the run up to Apple's latest eagerly anticipated launch event, mobile benchmarking specialist Crittercism has released an Apple edition of its Mobile Experience Benchmark Report.
Focussing on statistics gathered from over a billion users across more than 120 countries it looks at key performance metrics including crash rates across iOS versions and devices along with latency by carrier and Wi-Fi.
Major malvertising network targets Windows and Mac users
A new malicious advertising network is affecting sites including Amazon, Yahoo and YouTube. Dubbed "Kyle and Stan" by the Cisco Talos Security Research group that uncovered it, the malware is able to mutate to attack both Windows and Mac systems.
Online advertising has relatively few major distribution networks, by getting ads onto one of these an attacker has the potential to get malicious content in front of large numbers of users.
One in three financial services firms inadequately protected against cyberattack
We trust financial services organizations with some of our most precious data, but are these companies doing enough to protect the information?
According to a new survey by Kaspersky Lab and market research company B2B International, 93 percent of financial services organizations have experienced some form of cyberthreat in the past 12 months.
New collaboration tool to make online discussions more productive
Business collaboration is most often organized by email, but it isn't always the most efficient way of ensuring things get done and it can be time consuming to deal with.
A recent survey by the McKinsey Institute shows that an average American spends 28 percent -- around 9 hours -- of their work week just dealing with emails. You can see how this time breaks down in infographic form below.
Lighter, thinner, tougher and more productive -- Dell's new commercial PCs
As summer draws to a close and people start to go back to school or back to work technology manufacturers like to tempt them with new and shiny kit.
Today is the turn of Dell as it launches its latest commercial PC range aimed at offering productivity, manageability and security for business users in smaller, thinner and generally nicer packages.
Trustwave ethical hacking lab looks to counter hidden threats
Security exploits aren't always aimed at computers or mobile devices. Often they target the infrastructure devices like ATMs and point of sale terminals that we take for granted in our everyday lives.
In order to protect against these threats, enterprise security specialist Trustwave has announced that it's enhancing its capabilities with the opening of an ethical hacking lab at the company’s Chicago HQ.
Privacy and financial threats top mobile malware trends
With mobile malware showing a 68 percent increase over the first half of last year it seems that, as with the PC malware field, profit is the main driving force behind it.
New data released by security specialist NQ Mobile shows that infections were detected in 37.5 million Android devices in NQ Mobile's database of 136 million active user accounts worldwide, an increase of 78.6 percent over last year.
DecryptCryptoLocker helps almost 3,000 victims
A few weeks back we reported on the launch of a free tool to help out CryptoLocker victims allowing them to retrieve locked files.
One of the companies behind the DecryptCryptoLocker tool, Fox-IT, has released some details of how well it's working. It has so far dealt with 2,900 requests for decryption keys and dozens more are being received on a daily basis.
Marketing Raven helps sales and marketing teams become more productive
The business of marketing has always been about understanding the customer, and the modern information-driven world means there's more potential to know what customers are up to than ever.
The trouble is that many businesses fail to properly exploit this due to lack of visibility into how their marketing efforts work. Cloud-based file distribution specialist Content Raven aims to change this with its new Marketing Raven tool.
One in five businesses loses data to mobile device theft
The results of a new survey from Kaspersky Lab show that the rate of mobile device theft is increasing but over the same period the time taken for IT departments to respond has increased.
Part of this is down to employees taking longer to report mobile loss or theft. Only half report the theft of a mobile device within a day with 38 percent taking up to two days and nine percent waiting between three and five days.
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Ian spent almost 20 years working with computers before he discovered that writing about them was easier than fixing them. Since then he's written for a number of computer magazines and is a former editor of PC Utilities. Follow him on Mastodon
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