Having just spent 3 days at CA World and talked to a good number of IT users including a few CIOs, it’s becoming fairly clear that there’s going to be carnage in the PC market in the coming year. Most companies have taken their first steps in responding to the emerging recession by deferring the [...]

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If your employer accuses you of hacking into the company’s computing system and perpetrating a fraud, and you happen to be guilty, what is your safest tactic if you want to escape criminal charges?
The answer is: Don’t break into tears, admit what a cad you are and beg forgiveness. Just ask them to prove it.
Two [...]

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The video below is one of many indications I picked up at CA World that CA is a different company from the one we knew 5 years ago. The video heralds John Swainson’s entry into Second Life, and his journey through Second Life to the opening of CA World in Las Vegas. IBM, CA’s main [...]

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I was contacted by JT Keating, VP of Marketing at CoreTrace, for a quick chat about MS08-067. (CoreTrace has a whitelisting product called Bouncer). If you have no idea what MS08-067 is, it’s a Microsoft vulnerability. And of course it isn’t just any vulnerability, but one that could be problematic. Vulnerabilities get discovered all the [...]

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The adjacent photo, from Andrew Sullivan’s Daily Dish at The Atlantic, gives a pretty good idea of who’s going to win the election - barring any last minute upsets. It has to be said that if even a small portion of “the rednecks” are for Obama, then it’s game, set and match.
However there are [...]

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