Security In DNS Left Out On Purpose, Says Creator
Robert Vamosi, Contributor
Robert Vamosi, Contributor
Gady Epstein, Forbes Staff
Andy Greenberg, Forbes Staff
The global security software market for businesses is around a $6 billion market by our estimates benefiting anti-virus software providers like Symantec and McAfee, which is part Intel. Given the growth in security needs for enterprises and individuals given the boom in mobile, connected devices, Intel sniffed out a promising growth opportunity by picking up McAfee. Through this deal, Intel can gain an edge on rival Advanced Micro Devices by embedding security software in Intel processors as well[...] read »
Is the video currently circulating the Web of an iPad hacked to see through clothes an April Fool's day hoax? Absolutely. But is the idea of altering an off-the-shelf camera to penetrate clothing real? Twelve-year-old peeping toms everywhere may be delighted to know that the trick is far from impossible. read »
I’ve interviewed literally thousands of businesspeople in China since I opened our Shanghai bureau in 2003 and took up the job of compiling our annual Forbes China Rich List. Because the pace of networking in China is so fast and the pool of entrepreneurs that we try to track is so huge, some faces blur out after only days. By contrast, Zhou Hongyi made a lasting impression when I talked to him several years ago. read »
On March 29, 2011, the United States Department of Justice unsealed a criminal complaint in the District of Maryland that charges Gaithersburg, MD residents Cheng Yi Liang, 57, and his son, Andrew Liang, 25, with conspiracy to commit securities and wire fraud, securities fraud and wire fraud relating to their trading in the securities of five companies: read »
Update: Samsung now claims in a statement that the report of spyware on its laptops is false: "Our findings indicate that the person mentioned in the article used a security program called VIPRE that mistook a folder created by Microsoft's Live Application for a key logging software, during a virus scan," the statement reads in part. See the company's full response here. read »
Mozilla's CEO on how we will access online information in the future.
File this one under – oh, for godsakes, really? read »
Amazon has announced a new cloud-based storage service that lets users store and access music, photos, videos and documents from any computer or from Android phones. Amazon's Cloud Drive will act as a web-based hard drive for all sorts of data files while Cloud Player will let people listen to and edit their own music playlists from a computer or Android device. Amazon account holders automatically start with 5GB of free storage, which they can upgrade to 20GB when they buy an MP3 album on the site[...] read »
When a small team of hackers aligning themselves with Anonymous raided digital security firms HBGary Federal and HBGary Inc. last month, there followed the mother of all legal clean-up jobs. More than 70,000 company emails had been posted online for the world to see, and some included non-disclosure agreements with clients. HBGary Inc.'s chief executive Greg Hoglund picked Zwillinger & Genetski, a specialist law firm in Internet security, for the job. Senior partner Marc Zwillinger is now leading[...] read »
