Cloud Computing: A Security Disaster Waiting To Happen?

Posted by Keith Ferrell 12:02 PM ET | Jul 1, 2009

Cloud computing is be the biggest risk the Internet has ever faced, according to one hacker. He went so far as to say that security problems in the Cloud may bring "an end to the Internet as we know it."

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Business & E-Business | Cloud Computing | Internet/Web | Security

Social Networks Make Great Phishing Holes (And The Crooks Know It!)

Posted by Keith Ferrell 12:12 PM ET | Jun 30, 2009

The overwhelming popularity of Facebook, Twitter, and other social networks -- as well as the nature of their members' trust in them and their content -- is proving to be bonanza for phishers. So much so that social networking scams increased a stunning 241% between early 2008 and this year.

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Business & E-Business | Internet/Web | Security | Social Networking | bMighty

Are SMBs Facing A Crisis Of Cloud Confidence?

Posted by Fredric Paul 09:53 AM ET | Jun 30, 2009

Cloud computing is often thought of as the perfect option for small businesses. But a new survey shows that small businesses share many of the cloud computing concerns of their larger competitors, including security, availability, and speed.

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Cloud Computing
Cloud Computing | Company Size: 1-49 | Internet/Web | Security

Online Sales Tax Brouhaha Hits More SMB Amazon Affiliates

Posted by Fredric Paul 08:34 PM ET | Jun 29, 2009

Amazon.com has dropped affiliate relationships with small businesses in North Carolina and Rhode Island as the states prepare to implement new laws requiring the company to collect online sales tax.

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Business & E-Business
Business & E-Business | Company Size: 1-49 | Economics | Entrepreneurs | Finance/Accounting | Government | Internet/Web | Retail | Sales/Marketing

Botnet Alert: 90% Of Email Now Spam

Posted by Keith Ferrell 01:58 PM ET | Jun 29, 2009

Nine out of ten e-mails are now spam, according to the latest Symantec/MessageLabs Intelligence Report. And more than 83% of that spam is generated by botnets, relatively unaffected by large shutdowns of spam servers.

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Business & E-Business | Internet/Web | Messaging | Security

Does Web-Based Printing (Finally!) Have A Future?

Posted by Matthew McKenzie 04:37 AM ET | Jun 25, 2009

HP is aiming its new Web-enabled printer mostly at the home consumer market. But it could easily turn out to be a great fit for small -- or even not-so-small -- companies.

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Hardware & Software
Cloud Computing | Hardware & Software | IT | Internet/Web | Linux | Open Source | Printers/Printing | bMighty

PODCAST: Social Networking, Web 2.0 And The Consumerization of IT - Best Practices For SMBs

Posted by Fredric Paul 01:31 AM ET | Jun 25, 2009

Earlier this month, I got the chance to be a present a video Webinar on how small and midsize companies can best take advantage of the latest changes in technology. While I was in Pittsburgh for the video shoot, I also recorded an audio interview with Maurice Saluan from Zenith Infotech, where we discussed many of these same subjects in a more casual forum. You can listen to the podcast here.

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Social Networking
Company Size: 1-49 | Company Size: 50-249 | Internet/Web | Sales/Marketing | Social Networking | Web 2.0

Conduit Makes Its Free Browser Toolbars More Attractive To SMBs

Posted by Fredric Paul 09:38 AM ET | Jun 23, 2009

Custom browser toolbars are big in Latin America and Eastern Europe, but they never really caught on here in North America. But toolbar leader Conduit wants to change that with new Conduit Open features that create a kind of "app store" for toolbar components.

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Internet/Web
Apple | Business & E-Business | International | Internet/Web | Sales/Marketing | Services | Social Networking | Software-as-a-Service

MessageLabs Launches IM Security Service

Posted by Keith Ferrell 03:31 PM ET | Jun 18, 2009

Symantec's MessageLabs has unveiled an Instant Messaging security service in response to a sharp increase in the number of malicious urls in IMs.

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Business & E-Business | IT | Internet/Web | Messaging | Security

New Company Targets Web-Based Malware And Blacklists

Posted by Keith Ferrell 05:52 PM ET | Jun 17, 2009

Dasient, a security startup started up by former Google engineers, among others, is targeting malware that has your Web sites targeted, as well as monitoring your sites for their presence on blacklists. That last, as any business that's been blacklisted can attest, can be deadly.

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Business & E-Business | Internet/Web | Security | Start-Ups

Twitter Security Flaws: One A Day For A Month!

Posted by Keith Ferrell 12:18 PM ET | Jun 16, 2009

Twitter may be taking the world by tweetstorm (or it may be doomed) but one security researcher says that the social network carries a mess of vulnerabilities. A month's worth, in fact, and he intends to prove it, once a day, this July.

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Business & E-Business | Internet/Web | Security | Social Networking | bMighty

Twitter Is Doomed. So What?

Posted by Fredric Paul 08:24 PM ET | Jun 15, 2009

The inevitable media-hype backlash is starting to settle in, predicting that Twitter will flame out within a year. Well maybe, or maybe not. But it really doesn't matter either way.

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Social Networking
Business & E-Business | Internet/Web | Sales/Marketing | Social Networking

Force.com Says "The First One's Free!"

Posted by Fredric Paul 04:01 AM ET | Jun 15, 2009

Not to say that Salesforce.com is peddling crack, but the company has hit upon a favorite sales tactic popularized by drug dealers everywhere: The First One's Free! The deal applies to companies using the Force.com platform to create new applications -- and new Web sites, as Force.com Sites is now generally available.

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Cloud Computing
Cloud Computing | Company Size: 1-49 | Internet/Web | Non-Profit | Sales/Marketing | Software-as-a-Service | Web 2.0

Grab Your Company's Facebook Username TONIGHT!

Posted by Fredric Paul 12:01 AM ET | Jun 13, 2009

At 12:01am EDT Saturday morning (or 9:01pm PDT Friday Night), Facebook will let you attach an identifiable username to your profile -- and those that you administer. Don't miss your chance!

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Social Networking
Business & E-Business | Internet/Web | Sales/Marketing | Social Networking

Building 43, PartnerUp Debut New And Upgraded SMB Communities

Posted by Fredric Paul 10:39 PM ET | Jun 11, 2009

Rackspace Cloud tees up Building 43, while Deluxe enhances its PartnerUP site.

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Business & E-Business
Business & E-Business | Cloud Computing | Company Size: 1,100-1,500 | Internet/Web | Sales/Marketing | Services | Social Networking