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Article | 6/10/2011 Android's big security flaw, and why only Google can fix it
In August 2010, hackers bent on jailbreaking Android smartphones found a vulnerability in the way the Android debugger handled an overwhelming number ...
Article | 6/06/2011 Apple iOS: Why it's the most secure OS, period
In June 2007, Apple released the iPhone, and the device quickly took off to become a major brand in the smartphone market. Yet when the iPhone shipped...
Article | 14/05/2011 Zeus leaks give tools to researchers, attackers
The source code and a manual to the popular crimeware creation kit Zeus has been leaked, perhaps giving defenders additional tools to fight infections...
Article | 5/05/2011 How we moved almost everything to the Cloud: 5 lessons
Companies that move to the cloud have a whole host of decisions, one of the first being whether to develop their own software on top of a cloud infras...
Article | 9/03/2011 DroidDream turns Androids into zombies
The malicious code that led Google to remove more than 50 Trojan applications from the Android Marketplace appears to mainly be a "dropper" -- a progr...
Article | 9/09/2010 When clouds attack: 5 ways providers can improve security
Criminals intent on attacking others can lease networks of compromised computers, or botnets, from other criminals serving the underground community. ...
Article | 8/07/2010 Five Trends Shaping Data Center Designs
In the past, companies built data centers like parents buy clothes for their children: Buy big and wait for the kids to grow into them.
Article | 16/04/2010 Cloud Computing: Early Adopters Share Five Key Lessons
While some large enterprises have moved their information-technology infrastructure to a third-party managed service to save costs, small firms--espec...
Article | 2/03/2010 Modular data centres: a fast, secretive option spreads
When Australian firm WesTrac needed to expand its data center capacity quickly, the company bought the equivalent of a Band-Aid for its server needs: ...
Article | 24/11/2009 Data Center Lessons from the Online Gaming World
In June, Iceland-based CCP Games brought the hammer down on a group of resource hogs that were clogging its data center.
Article | 11/06/2009 Researchers speed up the chase for cooler data centers
With energy costs rising and data centers at the core of IT strategy for many companies, cooling the growing number of computers jammed into data cent...
Article | 23/04/2009 When the FBI Raids a Data Center: A Rare Danger
As part of coordinated raids in early April, FBI agents seized computers from a data center at 2323 Bryan Street in Dallas, Texas, attempting to gathe...

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