CIO Insight Staff

The Waledac spam botnet has reawakened, and its new password-stealing capabilities make it a much more dangerous threat than the older one Microsoft shut down more than a year ago, according to Palo Alto Networks. Computers infected with the new variant of Waledac still sends out spam, but the malware has added capabilities to steal […]

Microsoft and GE Healthcare’s joint venture in health care IT now has a name. The companies are calling their corporate offspring Caradigm and have installed a leadership team for the new venture. With the name "Caradigm," Microsoft and GE are looking to create a "paradigm" shift in "care" delivery from providing care of a single-patient […]

The decade-long security breach at Nortel, where thousands of company documents were exposed, is just a one example of how vulnerable corporations are to cyber-espionage. What’s even more worrisome is the likelihood that even more businesses are currently breached and not aware of it, security experts said. CIOs, CTOs and CSOs have long known that […]

Motorola Mobility (NYSE:MMI), which recently received approval from U.S. and European regulatorsto to be acquired by Google (NASDAQ:GOOG), has updated its timetable for bringing Android 4.0, or Ice Cream Sandwich, to its legion of Android smartphones and tablets. Unfortunately for ICS fans, it won’t be particularly soon. While the ICS bump began rolling out for […]

When it comes to technology, small businesses continue to ratchet up their use of emerging wireless solutions, including tablet computers, 4G devices, and GPS navigation mobile apps, according to the 2012 AT&T Small Business Technology Poll. Nearly all small businesses (96 percent) surveyed use wireless technologies in their operations, with almost two-thirds (63 percent) indicating […]

With increases in streaming content, growing connections from mobile device and machine-to-machine (M2M) modules and powerful mobile devices leading the way, Cisco Systems reports in a new Visual Networking Index Forecast that worldwide mobile data traffic is expected to increase eighteenfold over the next five years, reaching an annual run rate of 130 exabytes by […]

Just seven percent of information security professionals were unemployed at any point during 2011, with nearly 70 percent reporting a salary increase, and 55 percent expecting to receive an increase in 2012, according to the 2012 Career Impact Survey released today by (ISC) , the information security professional body and administrators of the Certified Information […]

Apple CEO Tim Cook used a Feb. 14 keynote at the Goldman Sachs Technology and Internet Conference in San Francisco to offer some insights into both the iPad and the tablet industry as a whole.  After praising the iPad’s effect on the tech industry as a whole, Cook suggested that quality, and not a low […]

Chinese hackers allegedly breached telecommunications company Nortel in 2000 and these cyber-spies gained access to reams of sensitive technical documents, as well as internal communications and email, for nearly 10 years, according to a report in The Wall Street Journal. The attackers, suspected of being based in China, breached the network using stolen credentials and […]

A report from IT jobs specialist Dice that forecasts the Linux job market shows demand for Linux skills is on the rise but that finding talent is difficult. The report noted that this is triggering better salaries and bonuses for Linux professionals, as companies look to open-source IT specialists to solve their business challenges and […]

Apple has been asked to behave like an industry leader and has responded in kind. On Feb. 13, the iPhone maker announced that, at Apple’s request, the Fair Labor Association (FLA) will conduct voluntary audits of Apple’s assembly suppliers, including Foxconn factories in Shenzhen and Chengdu, China. The first inspections began the same morning, at […]

Cyber-criminals are increasingly relying on a web of malicious networks, or "malnets," to launch their attacks, according to security firm Blue Coat. Instead of worrying about specific malware families or samples, security vendors should focus on identifying the common components within malicious infrastructure, said Sasi Murthy, global technology director and general manager of Blue Coat […]