Cyber Attacks Target Gas Pipelines The U.S. government is moving quickly to respond to a coordinated, ongoing series of cyber attacks that began in December and that use "spear-phishing" on companies in the natural gas pipeline sector. |
Cloud Has Silver Lining for Interop As the annual Interop Las Vegas show winds to a close, some question whether this IT expo is losing steam. Perhaps, although thanks to the BYOD trend and cloud computing, there's plenty new to see. |
Eight Critical Issues for Patch Tuesday Microsoft has issued seven security bulletins to address 23 vulnerabilities in its products for Patch Tuesday. Redmond rated eight of those vulnerabilities critical and four are rated important. |
Discarded Devices: ID Theft Gold Mine Before recycling or selling an aging laptop or cellphone, you might want to smash it to bits instead. Some devices, such as older Windows XP laptops or Android smartphones, are a gold mine for ID thieves. |