Posted on 13 March 2012.

Small businesses are using a variety of technologies to back up data including some antiquated methods that leave the backup process incomplete and susceptible to information loss, according to Carbonite.

These technologies include external hard drives, USB/flash drives and CDs/DVDs. The data further revealed many businesses are using a combination of these antiquated technologies, which can make backing up even more complex and compound their risk for data loss. Suc...

Posted on 13 March 2012.

LogRhythm and Solera Networks announced a technology partnership to provide customers with network visibility, security and situational awareness by combining LogRhythm’s SIEM 2.0 platform with Solera’s security intelligence and analytics solution.
For any LogRhythm-generated alert, customers will now have access to Solera’s DeepSee platform with Layer 2 through Layer 7 detail, as well as historical context via Solera’s Deep Packet Inspection engine to respond to cy...

Upgrade coming in April, with FTTC to offer 20Mbps uploads

TalkTalk has announced that it will follow BT’s lead in doubling the speed of its fibre-to-the-cabinet service (FTTC).

FTTC currently offers speeds of 40Mbps, but last year BT announced that it was going to double that with an infrastructure upgrade to 80Mbps.

That 80Mbps upgrade is going to be made available to third-party ISPs’ unbundled services, provisioned by BT, starting from April.

TalkTalk has now confirmed it will be u...

Everything Everywhere gets the thumbs up, in principle

You may recall the story which emerged last month, regarding the possible roll-out of 4G LTE service by Everything Everywhere (Orange and T-Mobile) in the UK starting this year.

It was a surprising announcement because LTE wasn’t expected to begin going live in the UK until late next year or early 2014.

Everything Everywhere said that it had scheduled an 1800MHz LTE trial in Bristol for April, and that it was ready to roll-out later ...

Posted on 13 March 2012.

Regina Dugan, the first female director of the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), has been offered and has accepted a “senior executive position” at Google.

According to DARPA's spokesman, Dugan, who has been the agency's director for almost three years and has steered it towards cybersecurity and more practical projects, has felt that she could not refuse the offer of such an innovative company.

“Regina is a technical pioneer who brought the future o...

73% of boxed copies sold on the Xbox format

There’s a new – and very predictable – number one in the UK all-format game chart this week.

Everyone knew that Mass Effect 3 was going to sell a stack load, and indeed Bioware’s action RPG has hit the top spot and become the best selling launch game so far this year.

Indeed, the third episode outsold the original Mass Effect and sequel in terms of their units shifted combined. 73% of boxed copy sales were on the Xbox.

Last week’s numbe...

Trusteer uncovered two online banking fraud schemes designed to defeat one time password (OTP) authorization systems used by many banks. Unlike a previous attack Trusteer discussed that involved changing the victim’s mobile number to redirect OTPs to the fraudster’s phone, in these new scams the criminals are stealing the actual mobile device SIM card.
In the first attack, the Gozi Trojan is used to steal IMEI (international mobile equipment identity) numbers from account holders when they l...