Asavin Wattanajantra
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Companies need real-time ‘zero day’ detection
By Asavin Wattanajantra published
News Security vendors are looking at real-time security, saying many businesses will need this type of protection as more is done on the web.
ICANN's global domains could increase phishing attacks
By Asavin Wattanajantra published
News Allowing different character sets on the internet could leave users open to new kinds of phishing and web attacks.
Pirate Bay prosecution saw explosion of file sharing
By Asavin Wattanajantra published
News Headlines around The Pirate Bay lead to an explosion in growth of BitTorrent websites hoping to fill the gap.
Microsoft warns about worm attacks
By Asavin Wattanajantra published
News Conficker has driven the growth of worms as a malicious threat, according to Microsoft’s latest report.
Bookshop Foyles makes move to e-readers
By Asavin Wattanajantra published
News Foyles has made the move into selling digital books as the market for them starts to blossom.
Microsoft cleans up last month's Patch Tuesday
By Asavin Wattanajantra published
News Microsoft has had to clean up bugs from its most recent patch update.
Week in Review: Halloween tech scares
By Asavin Wattanajantra published
News The IT industry is often capable of throwing up a few scares as this week in tech has shown.
Samsung profits suggest tech industry recovery
By Asavin Wattanajantra published
News Samsung posts a 206 per cent increase in net income from a year ago.
Watch out for the Zeus botnet this Halloween
By Asavin Wattanajantra published
News Halloween is again a target for cyber criminals, so be careful where you click this weekend, Trend Micro has warned.
‘Severe’ flaws in Firefox and Opera patched
By Asavin Wattanajantra published
News Browser giants Firefox and Opera have been patched up to protect against hacking attacks.
Businesses must deal with ‘information overload’
By Asavin Wattanajantra published
News Business and the public sector must find a way to deal with the rapidly expanding amount of information being created.
IBM helps Kent residents create their own mashups
By Asavin Wattanajantra published
News Kent County Council is running an IBM-driven business intelligence trial to help residents make more sense out of data.
IBM: Data can diagnose and predict diseases
By Asavin Wattanajantra published
News Business intelligence and analytics can be used to save lives, as IBM demonstrates at its Information on Demand conference in Las Vegas.
IBM will keep spending big on business intelligence
By Asavin Wattanajantra published
News The company has already spent billions on BI and analytics, but it's not stopping yet as IBM claims it is "just at the beginning."
IBM wants IT to make the world a better place
By Asavin Wattanajantra published
News Computing giant IBM has big ambitions to make the world smarter and happier through technology.
IBM to open financial analytics centre in London
By Asavin Wattanajantra published
News Looking to take advantage of the city's strength in finance, IBM is planning on opening a financial analytics centre.
Linguistic software helps law enforcement
By Asavin Wattanajantra published
News Name recognition software is also becoming a vital tool to combat fraud in the financial sector, according to IBM.
IBM wants companies to predict the future
By Asavin Wattanajantra published
News Business analytics will be the next big IT industry mega trend, predicts IBM.
Enterprises slow in reacting to changing criminal threat
By Asavin Wattanajantra published
News Businesses are too slow in moving with the times, claims a security researcher.
Criminals sitting on stolen data ‘timebomb’
By Asavin Wattanajantra published
News Criminals are starting to realise that they can make use of the compromised work computers they have in their grasp, according to security experts.
Britain needs data breach notification laws
By Asavin Wattanajantra published
News It will take a new law to force businesses to encrypt data and prevent data breaches.
Rogue trader warns financial systems need controls
By Asavin Wattanajantra published
News Nick Leeson questions whether the financial sector is putting the right IT systems in place.
RSA 2009: Fake chip and PIN readers hit UK
By Asavin Wattanajantra published
News Fraudsters are being given a fake chip and PIN reader cheaply in return for giving the criminal supplier a share of the data.
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