The UltraTech Zone

Given the recent spate of breach announcements from companies like Monster.com and TradeFreedom Securities Inc., I've been thinking about how poor security is going to impact organizations and consumers over the next few years. Even though there have been an increasing number of attacks over the past 18-24 months, and even though the ...

Given the recent spate of breach announcements from companies like Monster.com and TradeFreedom Securities Inc. , I've been thinking about how poor security is going to impact organizations and consumers over the next few years. Even though there have...(read more)

On Tuesday, Apple Computer company had an issue where a Windows-based virus was shipped on a select number of iPods, and rather than accepting blame for a mistake in their manufacturing or QA processes, they blamed Microsoft for not producing a ''more robust OS''. Huh? Not only is that an absurd deflection of blame, but as ...

Otherwise known as Vista vs the EU and the World: Part Three... Here's a follow-up to my earlier Vista vs the World and Vista vs the Security Vendors posts, where I noted I greatly preferred a stronger, more secure base OS, even if that inhibited some functionality for third-party security tools. As seen in the following articles, Microsoft is ...

There is no universal standard of what the acceptable boundaries of privacy are.  The European Union tends to have a more stringent view of what constitutes personal privacy, while the United States seems to favor corporations vs people when it comes to control of user data. Now, the boundaries are being pushed even further by a company ...