CIO Insight Staff

Apple has pushed out the fixes for the Java remote code vulnerabilities Oracle patched earlier this month, including a serious flaw that allowed Java applet code to escape from the sandbox and run as if it were a local, trusted program. Apple pushed out a Mac OS X update patching 11 Java vulnerabilities. Oracle fixed […]

Oracle executives are dismissing Hewlett-Packard’s lawsuit over Oracle’s decision to end support for Intel’s Itanium technology, calling HP’s move a “publicity stunt” designed to blame the software giant for HP’s misguided embrace of a faltering processor platform. In a 15-page court filing to answer HP’s lawsuit, Oracle officials contradict the accusation that they have put […]

Microsoft s Office 365 release intensifies its competition with Google. The question now is whether the Office 365 platform, as the cloud-based extension of Microsoft s long-running Office franchise, actively threatens Google s work in the cloud-productivity arena. Microsoft would certainly like that to be the case. During its June 28 launch event in New […]

Even though both Apple’s iOS and Google’s Android smartphone operating systems are pretty secure, they are still susceptible to multiple types of attacks, Symantec said. Android and iOS were designed with mobile security in mind and are superior to traditional desktop operating systems, Symantec researchers wrote in a whitepaper released June 28. However, the security […]

AUSTIN, Texas — While some in the IT industry may still think of Dell as a low-cost PC maker, CEO Michael Dell remains on a mission to change those perceptions. In a free-flowing conversation the day before his company’s annual investor and financial investor conference here, Dell on June 28 held forth on a numbers […]

Google (NASDAQ:GOOG) could earn as much as $14 billion from mobile-ad sales in 2015, or nearly half the $29 billion it banked in online ads combined in 2010, according to a financial research firm. Canaccord Genuity analyst Heath Terry said Google’s mobile sales, largely driven by search and display ads served on Apple’s (NASDAQ:AAPL) iPhone, […]

Organized hackers have been attempting to breach aerospace and defense company Northrop Grumman for years to steal sensitive information, according to a Northrop Grumman senior executive at the Gartner security summit. The APTs (advanced persistent threats) are designed to infiltrate networks at companies and government agencies to steal intellectual property or other sensitive information. As […]

The IT term "big data" is currently getting close to the same hot-button treatment that cloud computing did five years ago, and for good reason. The continued increasing amount of business data created both by humans and by machines is having major effects on IT systems, which are struggling to store, tier and make easily […]

Should Google (NASDAQ:GOOG) find itself in the Federal Trade Commission s anti-competitive sights, there could be one very big beneficiary: Microsoft s Bing. According to The Wall Street Journal, the FTC will soon subpoena Google for information, which in turn could lead into an antitrust inquiry into the search engine giant s search advertising practices. […]

Cisco Systems is continuing to partner with carriers as officials look to offer the company s collaboration technology as a hosted service. Three months after announcing a beta program with Verizon, in which the carrier is offering services based on Cisco s HCS (Hosted Collaboration Suite), the networking giant is rolling out a similar program […]

As technology giant Hewlett-Packard gears up to release its 9.7-inch TouchPad tablet on July 1, a report from a Taiwanese news agency suggests the company is also prepping a 7-inch tablet device that could also run the company s webOS operating system, which will power the TouchPad. The publication reported an unnamed subcontractor for Inventec […]

Cyber-attacks are becoming more frequent and severe with the vast majority of businesses suffering as least one data breach in the past year, according to a new Ponemon Institute survey. Businesses of all sizes are being hit by cyber-attacks, as 90 percent of surveyed businesses reported at least one IT security breach in the past […]