CIO Insight Staff

The hacking collective Anonymous released documents it claims were stolen from government contractor Booz Allen Hamilton as part of its anti-government AntiSec campaign. The documents Anonymous released July 11 on The Pirate Bay contained personal and official email addresses and passwords of an estimated 90,000 United States military employees. Anonymous announced the massive data dump […]

Google may have found a way to challenge not only Facebook, but also LinkedIn: Its new Google+ social network will apparently evolve in a way that allows businesses to build profiles and interact with the public. “We have a great team of engineers actively building an amazing Google+ experience for businesses, and we will have […]

Apple’s iPad franchise will continue to dominate the tablet market for some time to come, according to a new analyst report. In a July 7 research note issued by Canaccord Genuity, analyst T. Michael Walkley and his co-authors suggested that the iPad 2’s price point is making it difficult for rival tablets to compete in […]

A security researcher has released a cross-site scripting proof-of-concept illustrating some flaws in the webOS tablet operating system. Security researcher Orlando Barrera published a proof-of-concept showing how attackers could inject code into the Contacts application on a webOS 3.0 device, Dark Reading reported July 5. He also demonstrated the cross-site-scripting exploit at an Austin Hackers […]

More than a third (35 percent) of all Americans now own a smartphone, according to the  latest report from the Pew Internet & American Life Project. Of these, one quarter conduct most of their online browing on the devices. The study, released July 11, is the organization’s first standalone measure of smartphone ownership. Based on […]

Apple’s App Store has passed more than 15 billion downloads, according to the company. Currently, the online storefront holds some 425,000 applications, including 100,000 native iPad applications. Apple also claims some 200 million devices are running iOS, its mobile operating system. That represents a considerable bar for rivals such as Hewlett-Packard and Google, which also […]

Despite the exit of Google from the personal health record market, the consumer version of electronic health records may have a future as part of an overall health care IT strategy, according to a report by research firm Frost & Sullivan. Increasing use of EHRs (electronic health records) by providers and payers along with continued […]

Security experts have long warned that all organizations are vulnerable to cyber-attack and that these days there is no such thing as being "not important enough" to attack. The latest proof comes in the form of Washington Post’s admission that its job board had been hacked. Cyber-attackers hit the Washington Post’s job board twice, once […]

Revenue for U.S. consumer and small and midsize business technology-support services will jump by nearly a factor of three in the next five years, and U.S. households will account for more than 40 percent of the $30 billion market, according to new data from Parks Associates. Broadband service providers, in particular, are driving this growth, […]

PALO ALTO, Calif. — Facebook made three significant announcements July 6, all important to the company and to the online social networking market in different ways. First, Facebook announced that it has surpassed the 750 million-member mark, with a cool 1 billion clearly within reach. The last time Facebook talked about its membership last October, […]

The Rustock botnet has been nearly halved in size and effectively crippled, demonstrating how tech companies can coordinate with law enforcement to take down malware distributing botnets, Microsoft said. Since Microsoft seized several command and control servers in the United States in March, the infection rate for Rustock malware has declined dramatically, Richard Boscovich, a […]

Apple wanted a U.S. District judge to immediately halt Amazon.com’s use of the term “Appstore.” The judge said, “No.” That’s the latest twist in the trademark-infringement lawsuit leveled by Apple against Amazon. Both companies offer online storefronts for mobile applications. However, Apple claims that customers could confuse Amazon s “Appstore” with its own “App Store.” […]