These guys do transparent encryption/decryption of DropBox and other cloud providers with web access as well as native clients for Windows, Mac, IOS and Android:
https://www.encryptedcloud.com/
I worked for RSA for 4 years, both before and after EMC acquired them (I was not working there when the break-in occurred). The security experts at RSA are not the people that are running EMC corporate IT. When the acquisition occurred, RSA IT was one of the first groups to be let go. EMC IT policy seemed to be more worried about meeting regulations for compliance than for implementing security policies that actually made sense.
Epsilon Informs AbeBooks of E-mail Database Breach
We have been informed by Epsilon, a third-party vendor we use to send e-mails, that an unauthorized person outside their company accessed files that included e-mail addresses of some AbeBooks customers. Epsilon has advised us that the files that were accessed did not include any customer information other than email addresses.
As a reminder, AbeBooks will never ask customers for personal or account information in an e-mail. Please exercise caution if you get any emails that ask for personal information or direct you to a site where you are asked to provide personal information.
"Business Objects, once you are a customer, spends more effort in telling you why your problem isn't their problem"
I went through this with Cognos on a project involving ReportNet. Their sales guys convinced my boss that the tool was capable of modeling complex outer join relationships between dozens of tables. It couldn't and we ended up writing 60% of our reports in Oracle SQL because the SQL that ReportNet generated sucked ass, either generating bad data or running forever. Every time we sent them examples of bad SQL they would basically say "Don't use it that way". When we asked them to explain how they generated execution plans for queries they turned us down claiming that it was proprietary information even though every commercial database I've ever worked with provides highly detailed execution plans.
U.S. Robotics used to sell an "Internet Gaming Modem" that claimed to improve response times by optimizing the route between the player and the server. For playing MMO's, which tend to be hosted on server clusters instead of individual computers, the performance seemed to get worse.
Before raking Kodak over the coals, has anybody bothered to check and see if maybe all the other digital camera manufdacturers are already licensing Kodak's patents?
Dude, they're not claiming parts of LINUX were stolen from them. They're claiming that the shared libraries that come with SCO's UNIX weren copied onto LINUX machines contrary to the license in order to provide a binary environment for their third party applications to continue running.
Imagine if the Wine folks were distributing Microsoft copyrighted DLLS from the Windows distribution. That's the kind of situation we have here.
This makes you wonder if MS isn't thinking toward a future where they release the source to the NT kernel at it's smallest, simplest, runnable level.
They could keep the Win32 subsystem, the Windows GUI and everything that uses it closed and proprietary, giving them a huge set of products to sell while getting rid of all the objections to their practice of including things like IE in with the OS.
The kernel would almost certainly receive the same attention from developers that LINUX does regarding clustering, scalability, etc.
Imagine it - LINUX developers could create a kernel module exposing the NT API that Win32 uses and MS could sell all their software to LINUX users.
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These guys do transparent encryption/decryption of DropBox and other cloud providers with web access as well as native clients for Windows, Mac, IOS and Android: https://www.encryptedcloud.com/
I worked for RSA for 4 years, both before and after EMC acquired them (I was not working there when the break-in occurred). The security experts at RSA are not the people that are running EMC corporate IT. When the acquisition occurred, RSA IT was one of the first groups to be let go. EMC IT policy seemed to be more worried about meeting regulations for compliance than for implementing security policies that actually made sense.
Epsilon Informs AbeBooks of E-mail Database Breach
We have been informed by Epsilon, a third-party vendor we use to send e-mails, that an unauthorized person outside their company accessed files that included e-mail addresses of some AbeBooks customers. Epsilon has advised us that the files that were accessed did not include any customer information other than email addresses.
As a reminder, AbeBooks will never ask customers for personal or account information in an e-mail. Please exercise caution if you get any emails that ask for personal information or direct you to a site where you are asked to provide personal information.
The last thing you want is users writing ad-hoc queries against your live data. Replicate the data to a reporting database and let them abuse that.
Sounds to me like the old Galaxy GUI tool from Visix.
"Business Objects, once you are a customer, spends more effort in telling you why your problem isn't their problem" I went through this with Cognos on a project involving ReportNet. Their sales guys convinced my boss that the tool was capable of modeling complex outer join relationships between dozens of tables. It couldn't and we ended up writing 60% of our reports in Oracle SQL because the SQL that ReportNet generated sucked ass, either generating bad data or running forever. Every time we sent them examples of bad SQL they would basically say "Don't use it that way". When we asked them to explain how they generated execution plans for queries they turned us down claiming that it was proprietary information even though every commercial database I've ever worked with provides highly detailed execution plans.
http://www.usr.com/support/overview-template.asp?p rod=s-game
http://www.tweak3d.net/reviews/3com/gamingmodem/
Their Performance Pro modem also claims to have a gaming mode:
http://www.usr.com/products/home/home-product.asp? sku=USR5610B
Not large enough scale to survive a Slashdotting...
Blue screens and memory dumps are normal Windows behavior. Nothing to be worried about.
Before raking Kodak over the coals, has anybody bothered to check and see if maybe all the other digital camera manufdacturers are already licensing Kodak's patents?
Dude, they're not claiming parts of LINUX were stolen from them. They're claiming that the shared libraries that come with SCO's UNIX weren copied onto LINUX machines contrary to the license in order to provide a binary environment for their third party applications to continue running. Imagine if the Wine folks were distributing Microsoft copyrighted DLLS from the Windows distribution. That's the kind of situation we have here.
This makes you wonder if MS isn't thinking toward a future where they release the source to the NT kernel at it's smallest, simplest, runnable level.
They could keep the Win32 subsystem, the Windows GUI and everything that uses it closed and proprietary, giving them a huge set of products to sell while getting rid of all the objections to their practice of including things like IE in with the OS.
The kernel would almost certainly receive the same attention from developers that LINUX does regarding clustering, scalability, etc.
Imagine it - LINUX developers could create a kernel module exposing the NT API that Win32 uses and MS could sell all their software to LINUX users.