Siobhan Gorman and Stephen Fidler, Wall Street Journal. Adversarial nations worldwide have adopted cyberespionage and cyberattacks as staples of modern warfare, and U.S. defense officials estimate that more than 100 countries are currently attempting to penetrate U.S. networks, with the greatest concentration of attacks based in China and Russia. U.S. military and civilian networks are [...]
by Joseph Menn and Mary Watkins, Financial Times Online No one knows the ultimate goal of the Stuxnet computer worm, which has infected an unknown number of industrial controls worldwide and can stealthily give false instructions to machinery and false readings to operators. It could destroy gas pipelines, cause a nuclear plant to malfunction, or [...]
by Erica Naone MIT Technology Review Experts warn that the software could identify those it claims to protect. A software tool designed to help dissidents circumvent government censorship of the Internet contains flaws so severe that it could endanger those who use it. The tool, called Haystack, has won awards and praise for enabling political [...]
MIT TechnologyReview If hackers got access to enough smart phones, they could paralyze wireless communications. In 2009, Scott Totzke, vice president of security at Research in Motion — maker of the BlackBerry smartphone — told Reuters that his nightmare scenario was a type of attack in which a sufficient number of smart phones in a [...]
Sybase, Inc., an SAP company, is an industry leader in delivering enterprise and mobile software to manage, analyze and mobilize information. Sybase CEP is a next-generation Complex Event Processing (CEP) platform that delivers Continuous Intelligence™ across enterprise networks for faster decision making and business execution. Sybase CEP enables rapid application development, allowing users to quickly [...]
- September 8th, 2010
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by Joel Campbell and Amy Zeller Directions Magazine Technology Maturation Created the Cloud When the computing age took off in the 1960s, powerful mainframe computers ran bulk data processes inside large organizations. At that same time, several companies realized they could take advantage of these large-scale systems by selling chunks of processing time to smaller [...]