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With each major public data breach our attention focuses on how to prevent these incidents. A good example is the recent security breach at LinkedIn, in which millions of passwords were stolen. Industry experts and the media immediately started to dissect what LinkedIn had done wrong or what methods or tools should have been used to prevent the incident. Unfortunately, at some point every organization will be faced with a security breach. This raises the question -- are security professionals focusing on prevention at the expense of damage control preparation?...

Foxconn Technology, the Taiwanese electronics maker typically linked with Apple products and workers' rights violations, said it closed a Chinese plant Monday following a fight between factory employees, according to The New York Times ...

Switching to another browser "is warranted," Joe McManus, software engineering manager at Webroot, told TechNewsWorld. Because IE "is a large executable with many features [and] this attack is complex, once [the browser] is patched, it does not mean the end of vulnerabilities in IE."

The announcement builds on momentum Sprint began developing in this space years ago, Joe Mandacina, VP of corporate communications, told the E-Commerce Times. Sprint was the first wireless carrier to introduce 4G on the WiMAX network in 2008, he noted, and "because of that h...

It is the end of an era. One of the last cases in which the Recording Industry Association of America sued an individual for illegal song sharing has reached the end of its road in a federal court in Massachusetts. There, the jury upheld a US$675,000 damages award against Joel Tenenbaum following the directed guilty verdict in his 2009 trial and numerous appeals...

One big way that credit card companies are increasing customer satisfaction is through very transparent reward programs, agreed Joel J. Ohman, a certified financial planner "In the past many reward programs -- though there are still some -- usually involved very complicated po...

"Given the amount we will have to store in the future, with all of the new big-data and business analytics heading our way, this is an important technology," Joe Clabby, president of Clabby Analytics, told TechNewsWorld. "This is probably why IBM is in the forefront of this technology."

HP grossly overpaid for EDS, said Joe Aberger, president of Pritchett, and author of Selling Your Business: Making the Right Moves, Avoiding the Costly Mistakes. For that reason, "the HP-EDS deal was dead on arrival," he told the E-Commerce Times....

"My wife does a lot of stuff on application performance management, and once an app drifts off into the cloud, it's very hard to track where it is and what problems it's facing, and this kind of tool sounds excellent to me," Joe Clabby, president of Clabby Analytics, told LinuxInsider...

A terrorist organization has compromised the account of an Olympic organizer IT admin. One of its members, Joe, has also gotten a job on the IT helpdesk. Joe uses his door badge to let Jane, a skilled hacker, into a secured office setting and then into a LAN closet with a computer terminal. ...

Meanwhile, Congress is battling over a cybersecurity bill; Sen. Joe Lieberman and other sponsors say they're being forced to water it down and reintroduce it. "We are still very vulnerable [to cyberattacks], though it's likely an attack would need a weapon that has been desig...

"If Digg wanted to compete and stay relevant they should have worked on better algorithms," McHenry told the E-Commerce Times. "They should have found a way so that any old Joe that submitted a story actually had a chance the article would go popular. If you aren't connected to an influencer on Digg, don't even waste your time submitting because nobody will see your story." ...

However, an upstart called "Ouya" is looking to challenge the big three and is looking to raise money in a Kickstarter.com-based campaign. Led by video game veteran Julie Uhrman, who was formerly the VP/GM of digital distribution at IGN Entertainment, the company has attracted a who's who of angel investors including Digg founder Jay Andelson; Eric Hautemont, publisher of the Ticket to Ride board game; Joe Greenstein, founder of Flixster; and Hosain Rahman, founder of Jabone...

Our track had some cool presentations on social marketing from IDC mavens Gerry Murray and Joe Farentino, revenue performance management from Phil Fernandez, CEO of Marketo, and an intriguing discussion from Pam Kostka, a fellow Crusader and CMO of VirtuOz, a company that makes virtual agents. ...

What Google and Apple are doing is not against the law, Joel R. Reidenberg, a professor at Fordham University School of Law, told TechNewsWorld. Passing a law to make their activities illegal would be complicated, as it could easily butt up against the First Amendment "If an o...

DeeChee, which is built to look, act and learn like a 6-to-14-month-old child, is the subject of a report recently published in PLoS ONE by Caroline Lyon, Chrystopher L. Nehaniv and Joe Saunders, researchers with Hertfordshire's Adaptive Systems Research Group DeeChee is desig...

The application launched in New York with demos from a slew of celebrities including Jim Carrey, Ed Helms, Alicia Keys, Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Joel McHale, Olivia Munn and Snoop Dogg. Their participation is not surprising -- Parker and Fanning are celebrities in their own rig...

Here synergy between games and sports is greater. Andrew Wilson of Electronic Arts took the stage and was joined by legendary NFL quarterback Joe Montana to demonstrate "Madden NFL 13's" new support for Microsoft Kinect "As a sports fan, I am excited by it," Dave Rudden, the...

Flame also lacks the degree of sophistication found in malware created with rootkits like TDL4 and ZeroAccess, according to Webroot Vice President Joe Jaroch "The code is not armored at all, and while it has many different components which can make it marginally more time-cons...

However, "using 20 times more code than Stuxnet doesn't necessarily mean that it's 20 times stronger," Joe Jaroch, vice president of endpoint solutions engineering at Webroot, told TechNewsWorld There are reports that Flame was launched by Israel against other nations the Midd...