News that a 512 gigabyte SSD (solid state drive) has fallen in price to under a thousand dollars in the US has been welcomed by Andy Cordial, managing director of Origin Storage.
According to Cordial - who heads up the secure storage systems specialist - pricing has always been perceived as something of an obstacle to the adoption of SSDs and - whilst solid state drives attract a premium over magnetic hard drives - the advantages are significant.
A blog posting by renowned security researcher Brian Krebs - warning that the elite of the coding world are being lured by carefully-worded job advert - has been confirmed by Idappcom, which has been tracking this worrying trend for more than six months.
According to Ray Bryant, Idappcom's chief executive officer, Krebs’ assertion that the employment outlook for criminally-inclined programmers has never been so bright is spot on, but Bryant warns that the lines between white and black hat coding are more blurred that most industry professionals might realise.
News that RSA, the security division of EMC, has announced plans to replace all 40 million of the SecurID tokens issued to its clients - following the recent cyberattack against Lockheed Martin - has been called a disaster in financial and ecological terms by SecurEnvoy.
According to Andrew Kemshall, the two-factor authentication specialist's co-founder, the deployment costs for RSA's clients will cost around four billion pounds, whilst the environmental cost will work at around 4.3 million tonnes of CO2.
London, (UK) 8th June 2011 : Imperva today released its second Hacker Intelligence Initiative (HII) report that discloses the intricate workings of a ‘Search Engine Poisoning’ (SEP) campaign. The attack, witnessed by Imperva’s Application Defense Center (ADC), was extremely successful and continued to run for at least 15 months without any apparent counter-measures employed by search engines. This acutely illustrates how websites – often unbeknownst to their administrator - and Web search engines become the conduit for these types of attack and demonstrates that more needs to be done to stop malware being spread in this fashion.
NEW YORK - June 6, 2011 (Investorideas.com cloud computing stocks newswire) GBS Enterprises (OTCBB:GBSX), announced today that Gar Wood Securities, a full service institutional broker--dealer located in Chicago, Il, has initiated coverage and issued its Insight Equity Research Report on the Company with a Buy rating and $9 per share target price.
Gar Wood recently raised $7.55MM for GBS with warrant coverage that will result in an additional $9MM funding to the Company.
Some excerpts from the Gar Wood research report are as follows:
