With the enterprise market being an important area for Huawei, Enterprise Systems will now distribute the company’s portfolio of vertical solutions focusing on the hospitality and public sectors in the UAE market.
Accenture study: CIOs at loggerheads with CMOs
An Accenture survey of 252 CIOs and 405 CMOs shows that, despite IT’s years of work toward business alignment, it remains far removed from marketing.
BP locking down personal devices in the face of cyber warfare
Oil giant BP is currently having a “big internal debate” about how it can lock down personal computers without losing out on flexibility for employees, as a direct result of the increasing threat of cyber attacks.
Banking malware infections rise to highest level since 2002
Malicious software aimed at stealing online banking credentials surged in the third quarter of this year to a level not seen since 2002, according to a new report from Trend Micro.
Security researchers laud Microsoft, Facebook bug bounty programmes
Facebook and Microsoft are winning plaudits from security researchers for launching an initiative to offer bounties to bug hunters who discover and report vulnerabilities in widely used products.
Apple’s Siri chief now building connected device platform at Samsung
The engineer who oversaw development of Apple’s Siri technology is now at Samsung building an online service to link together the “Internet of things.”
Google’s secret proposals leaked as dismay over EU antitrust inquiry grows
Google’s secret proposals leaked as dismay over EU antitrust inquiry grows
Windows XP may axe antivirus updates for Security Essentials after April 2014
Microsoft might stop updating Microsoft Security Essentials (MSE) antivirus software on systems running Windows XP after next April’s support cut-off, the company has suggested.
Employees easily tricked on social media prime phishing attacks
Spear phishing is one of the most effective ways to break into a corporate network – and recent studies show that employees can be easily tricked on social media to provide the information needed to launch attacks.
Apple opens the books on government data demands, claims privacy is paramount
Apple have revealed the amount of user information that governments have requested from the California giant, as it sought to set itself apart from Silicon Valley competitors whose businesses are built on amassing personal data.
Big Data: big threat?
“Collecting more and more unstructured data will open up another whole degree of attractiveness and may well lead to attackers seeing value in a form not previously recognised by the organisation that owns the data.”
Google Apps, once a leader, faces growing cloud app rivals
When Google Apps arrived in 2006, it stood on the cutting edge of Web-hosted email and collaboration suites for businesses, a bold pioneer clearing a path in the new, wild frontier of enterprise cloud computing.
SNIA Chairman highlights cloud security vigilance
Storage association SNIA have used the tenth anniversary of Frankfurt trade show Powering The Cloud to voice concerns cloud computing uptake.
Big data filtering key for Dell
Dell has used Powering The Cloud’s 10th anniversary trade show in Frankfurt to emphasise the importance of efficiently managing big data.
HP’s department merger aims to ‘revolutionise’ storage industry
HP’s policy of ‘Converged Infrastructure’ aims to combine the departments of servers, storage and networking into one arm of the business.
Interview: Avaya CEO Kevin Kennedy on riding the wave of innovation
CNME goes one-on-one with the CEO to see how he found meeting some of Avaya’s biggest regional customers.
Spectra Logic unveils ‘industry-leading’ tape storage solution
Storage vendor Spectra Logic has unveiled its new BlackPearl deep storage appliance.
NSA spied on 35 world leaders according to leaked document
The US monitored the phone conversations of 35 world leaders, according to a National Security Agency document provided by its former contractor, Edward Snowden, according to The Guardian newspaper.
Protesters call for an end to NSA mass surveillance
A crowd of about 5,000 people marched through Washington DC Saturday to protest the US National Security Agency’s mass surveillance programmes unveiled in press reports this year.
Cryptolocker: how to avoid the toxic ransomware and what to do if you get infected
There’s a big threat wiling around on the Internet right now: a particularly nasty piece of ransomware called Cryptolocker.