Top 10 Technology Security Trends for 2011

PandaLabs, the anti-malware lab of Panda Security, put out their predictions for 2011 and, while some of it is more of the same, some metrics are actually improving — unless you count in Mac attacks (not the McDonalds’s kind), HTML5, information blackmail, 64-bit attacks … sigh. “The overall picture is not improving. Even though we…

Trend Micro Warns IT on Social Networking

The popularity of consumer social-networking services like Facebook and Twitter has spilled over into the workplace, bringing potentially dire consequences, warns Trend Micro. As part of its corporate end-user study released Monday, the IT security firm found that the use of social-networking sites in the workplace grew from 19 percent in 2008 to 24 percent…

Tech Experts See Bright Future in the Cloud

The PC of the future will be very different from the computers that have come to dominate so many desktops in the home and office today, according to a broad survey of 895 tech experts by the Pew Research Center’s Internet & American Life Project and Elon University’s Imagining the Internet Center. By 2020 the…

The CIO’s Job ? Protecting What Matters

IT security is a core business concern. Malware, hackers, sabotage, natural disasters, terrorist actions or accidents could affect an unprotected enterprise at any time. Most CIOs are already implementing security measures such as firewalls, anti-virus and backup services, and conducting business-continuity and disaster-recovery planning. However, IT’s customers rarely have the same view on protection and…