Articles by Richard Adhikari

The New Jersey Supreme Court has ruled that people have an expectation to privacy online and that the authorities can't just demand citizens' Internet protocol (IP) addresses from their Internet service providers without a grand jury warrant The ruling was handed down in the case of a woman who was charged with hacking into her employer's computer ...

Creating videos in-house means corporations have to either hire contractors who have their own equipment or sink thousands or millions of dollars into hiring trained staff and leasing or buying equipment. Then they have to spend days, if not weeks, editing the videos Not any more: Veodia offers a live video broadcast service offered as Software as ...

As if stepping on the Linux community's toes when they first teamed up wasn't enough, Microsoft and Novell have announced a joint push into the China market to attack the Linux installed base there They have launched what they call "an incremental investment in their relationship" that will focus on "converting unsupported Linux users to supported ...

When UC Berkeley journalism graduate student James Karl Buck was grabbed by police in the Egyptian industrial city of Mahalla El-Kobra while photographing a noisy demonstration, he sent a one-word text message to Twitter: "Arrested." That eventually got him out of jail....

A firestorm of fury has erupted over behavioral tracking -- the tracking of consumers online by marketing companies and advertisers to serve them up with targeted advertisements when they're on the Web Both consumer organizations and trade and industry groups have responded to the Federal Trade Commission's (FTC) call for comments on its proposal t...

Think having a credit or debit card with your photo on it is cool? Well, how about a card the same size and thickness as a credit card, with a window that shows a passcode, and with a public key infrastructure (PKI) chip on it?...

Passwords are not the best of security solutions, as enterprises and individual users have found over the years. They can be cracked or stolen, and not necessarily by high-tech means either Often, passwords created by end users in corporations are simple, being based on numbers significant to them: their birth dates, wedding anniversaries, birth da...

In a bid to avoid the bitter battles that have raged around third-generation (3G) wireless technology, owners of the patents on which the fourth-generation LTE (long-term evolution) wireless technology is built have agreed to charge each other "reasonable" license fees The Magnificent Seven are Nokia, the world's largest handset maker by volume sol...

As corporations implement compliance with various regulations such as Sarbanes-Oxley, they find that they end up with different zones within their network that can't talk to each other This makes it difficult to implement an enterprise security solution. Adding virtualization to the mix complicates things further....

Microsoft has leapt into the brawl surrounding a recent proposal by the Federal Trade Commission to tighten restrictions on online advertising, responding with its own five-tiered plan for self-regulation In December, the FTC released a set of proposed principles to "guide the development of self-regulation" in online behavioral advertising and sou...

The face of online security will change drastically, Jim Bidzos, founder and chairman of trusted certificates vendor VeriSign, said in a keynote speech on Wednesday at the RSA Security Conference in San Francisco "In the '70s in enterprises, there were mainly mainframes. The Internet, due to good work by Al Gore, who will be speaking later, was the...

How do you respond when hit by a cyber attack tsunami? That's what Cyber Storm II, the most comprehensive cyber exercise ever held in the U.S., was designed to answer....

After working for years to prevent cyberterrorist attacks on the U.S., the Department of Homeland Security has approached the private sector for help At a talk given to information security professionals at the RSA Security Conference , Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff warned that a cyberterrorist attack would hurt the U.S. as much as t...

Microsoft has unveiled the public beta of its Forefront enterprise security product, known as "Stirling." This is a single product that delivers coordinated protection across desktop and server applications and the network edge. It comes with a single dashboard that shows all the systems protected by Stirling....

Archer Technologies on Tuesday launched the Archer Exchange, a virtual marketplace for on-demand application development wherein companies that have developed applications in-house can put them up on the exchange for sale to other corporations The company made the announcement at the RSA Security Conference, being held through Friday at San Francis...

The federal government should step in and pass laws to ensure computer security, John W. Thompson, the CEO of Symantec told a security conference Tuesday In the last six months of 2007, nearly 50 million people worldwide were the victims of identity theft, and 70 percent of the most common malicious code used in attacks on computers targeted confid...

Secure Web gateway products vendor Finjan unveiled version 9.0 of its Vital Security Web appliance on Monday at the RSA Security Conference This includes a new active real-time inspection technology that checks both inbound and outbound Web traffic and SSL (secure socket layer) traffic for malicious content to provide enterprises real-time informat...

It's quiet on the streets of San Francisco today, the first day of the RSA Security Conference, being held at the Moscone Convention Center south of Market Street ...

SCO, the company everyone in the Unix and Linux worlds loves to hate, has lost its latest angel investor Private equity firm Steven Norris Capital Partners had filed a memorandum of understanding tentatively offering US$5 million in stock and a $95 million loan the long-moribund SCO would use to pay off creditors and come back to life....

AT&T Mobility CEO Ralph de la Vega caused a stir at a press conference at CTIA Wireless 2008 in Las Vegas Wednesday when he expressed interest in Google's Android platform Some reports even had him committing to shipping phones running Android later this year....