Women perform well on Defcon social engineering test
Of the 135 people Fortune 500 employees targeted by social engineering hackers in a recent contest only five of them refused to give up any corporate information whatsoever. And guess what? All five were women.
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Secunia security program automatically tracks down, applies patches
Secunia has updated its Personal Software Inspector (PSI) with the ability to silently download and apply patches from multiple vendors soon after their release. PSI 2.0 is now available in an open beta test,
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VMware customers cast a wary glance at Microsoft's virtualization tools
VMware customers attending VMworld are taking a look at Microsoft's Hyper-V virtualization software, but say the Microsoft technology falls a bit short and that it would be problematic to start over after investing heavily in VMware.
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Microsoft: Silverlight capabilities exceed those of HTML5
While acknowledging the importance of HTML5, Microsoft stressed this week that its Silverlight rich Internet technology extends the Web beyond what HTML5 allows.
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SAS brings predictive analytics to business users
SAS Institute announced on Thursdaya new toolset aimed at giving business users the ability to work with predictive analytics software, which has historically been the province of specialized statisticians.
Predictive analytics refers to the practice of crunching existing data sets in an effort to determine patterns and predict future outcomes.
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Google and AOL renew long-term partnership
Google and AOL have renewed a long-term partnership that gives AOL Web properties access to Google search and advertising services.
The partnership, in place since May 2002 and renewed for the third time, provides revenue-sharing from AOL in exchange for search services. The new deal will expand to give AOL access to Google's mobile search products and Google subsidiary YouTube access to AOL's video content, the companies said in a statement.
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Onapsis to release ERP vulnerability testing suite
An information security company will soon release a tool that will allow companies to test their ERP (enterprise resource planning) software for security threats.
The first version of X1 works with SAP business platforms, said Mariano Nuñez Di Croce, director of research and development for Onapsis. The company eventually plans to add modules for Siebel, Oracle and PeopleSoft ERP applications, he said.
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