There are reports that the Obama administration is preparing to utilize an executive order that will push forward a cybersecurity plan.  The order would come as a response to legislation on cybersecurity has been in Congressional limbo.  The report states that the order is in draft and is being reviewed by a number of federal ...

Compromised accounts, phone info tracking, reports of major breaches – the news of risks in digital security and privacy emerge all the time.  The goal may be identity theft, financial gain, account hacking, or any unknown intents for ill-gained information.  The average computer user has some idea of how to protect their computers by now, ...

The cloud market as we know it will certainly be changing as Windows Azure is on the uptick.  It is true that the cloud platform has not traditionally been in serious competition with the large with the IaaS providers such as Amazon EC2, but that could be changing.    Windows Azure is one of the components ...

The anticipated return of NFL football kicked off last tonight with a prime-time game that no doubt had high ratings with “America’s Team”, the Dallas Cowboys and the defending Super Bowl champions, the New York Giants.  This marks the opening of not only the football season, but the social brand season.  More than ever, the ...

Recent news emerged around the alleged AntiSec hacking of an FBI computer that leaked a revealing 1 million Apple product IDs and the threat of another 11 million on deck.  The FBI has apparently denied this has even happened, and yet a pretty stark element is being largely overlooked in all the reaction to this ...

  “Built from the Cloud Up” – that’s the vision of Microsoft’s new Cloud OS – Windows Server 2012.  Today the general availability of Microsoft’s flagship server operating system Windows Server 2012 will be announced via a launch event broadcast online this morning. The event is being broadcast live and will be available afterward in ...

The hacker group Antisec released one million Apple UDIDs (Universal Device IDs) to the public today.  The release is part of data captured from an FBI laptop that was compromised back in March.  In addition to the UDIDs, the release includes notification Center tokens, device names, and device IDs.  According to the release on PasteBin, the ...

The Wall St. Journal reports that Gottfrid Warg, a co-founder of bit torrent download site The Pirate Bay was arrested in Cambodia  on Sunday.  He was to have begun a one-year sentence months ago.  Police officials are said to have coordinated the effort with the Swedish government.  Now it appears that officially he will be ...

The road to security is one that is ever changing, but the path inevitably proceeds up the stack into new and transforming datacenter concepts. In today’s ecosystems, there exists a challenge and opportunity to implement security across a number of access points including the latest emerging technologies in virtual networking, software defined-networking, and beyond. In ...

Paveen Akkiraju, newly appointed CEO of VCE was on theCube at VMworld 2012.  As CEO, Akkiraju brings a wealth of experience from Cisco Systems, where his role had been running the mobility business for the networking giant.  As the datacenter is going through a phenomenal transformation, VCE is working on evolving their strategy, and Akkiraju’s ...