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Cray courts the big-data market

Supercomputer company Cray has created a new division that will sell big-data systems, the company has announced. The division will market its offerings to large enterprises, which will be a new kind of client for the company.
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IT pros say data breach assessment is more valuable than notification, study says

IT professionals believe that assessing the potential harm caused by data breaches is more useful to mitigating the effects of such incidents than notifying affected individuals, according to a survey published on the day the European Union's proposed a 24-hour deadline for data breach disclosures.

The Oracle flaw: Clarifications and more information

In the wake of InfoWorld's exclusive story on a flaw in Oracle's flagship database product, Oracle weighs in and new developments emerge

Oracle, Cloudera unveil Hadoop appliance

Oracle has partnered with Cloudera to bring Apache Hadoop to its Oracle Big Data Appliance, which the company officially released Tuesday.

Oracle's latest Java moves frustrate users and vendors

The company is under fire for modularization, licensing, and security issues

Symantec confirms source code leak in two enterprise security products

Symantec late Thursday confirmed that source code used in two of its older enterprise security products was publicly exposed by hackers this week.

Two new tools exploit router security setup problem

Researchers have released two tools that can take advantage of a weakness in a system designed to let people easily secure their wireless routers.

Confidential client list safe from Anonymous, Stratfor says

The damage from a weekend data breach at an international security think tank, Strafor, appears to have been inflated by the perpetrators: the hacker collective known as Anonymous.

Big data has potential but requires care

The proliferation of large-scale data sets is just beginning to change business and science around the world, but enterprises need to prepare in order to gain the most advantage from their information, panelists said at a Silicon Valley event this week.

Surveillance tech companies should not sell to despots, EU says

Surveillance technology companies have a moral obligation not to sell to repressive regimes warned Europe's Digital Agenda Commissioner on Friday.

Send Faxes From the Web: Three Services Tested

Though you might be tempted to ditch your office fax machine, you probably have to send out at least a few faxes every year. Windows lets you fax from the OS itself; but it requires you to use a landline that your small business may not want tied up, and it lacks security and mobile features that your business may need.

Sanitize your hard drives with Drive eRazer Ultra

Drive eRazer Ultra can wipe your hard drives in a variety of ways to make sure that any data that resided on it is completely and unalterably gone.

Security Manager's Journal: You Can't Secure Every Home

By chance, our manager discovers that unauthorized network access from remote PCs at employees' homes and elsewhere has been widespread.

Enterprise Hadoop: Big data processing made easier

Amazon, Cloudera, Hortonworks, IBM, and MapR mix simpler setup of Hadoop clusters with proprietary twists and trade-offs

Fundamental Oracle flaw revealed

A design decision made by Oracle architects long ago may have painted some of Oracle's largest customers into a corner. Patches have arrived, but how much will they correct?

The cloud, day 21: My data might be safer in the cloud

It seems like an awful lot of faith to put in a third-party to expect it to protect my data. However, there is a flip side to that coin that suggests that maybe my data is better off in their hands than mine.

Privacy 2012: I know what you did at 3:30 a.m.

For a peek into what experts expect this year and beyond when it comes to privacy, we turn to the Rebecca Herold (a.k.a. the Privacy Professor) for answers.

The Cloud, Day 20: What About Security?

30 Days With the Cloud: Day 20

Inside Carrier IQ-gate

Carrier IQ software is marketed as a diagnostic tool for improve phone service, but critics say it's a hard-core violation of privacy. The critics are right, says columnist Mike Elgan.

The cloud security checklist

To choose the cloud service provider that best matches your company's risk tolerance, you should first develop a checklist of security mandates and required features. Experts explain how. Insider (registration required)