Forget cybercriminals — your own employees could be putting your company’s confidential data at risk, a new study finds. Employees with access to sensitive data — such as health care records, private company information, intellectual property or personal records — frequently put their organization’s confidential information at risk, according to research from security firm Raytheon Co. The study discovered that many employees with the highest levels of network permissions in organizations are often granted access to data and areas of the network not necessary for their roles and responsibilities. In addition,…

A new email scam is targeting high-level executives at medium and large organizations. The malicious emails ask for payment on outstanding invoices, but executives who pay up are really sending company dollars straight to the pockets of cybercriminals. Discovered by cybercrime protection firm PhishLabs, the new scam attempts to convince targets to wire funds to various accounts controlled by the criminals behind the scam. And these fraudsters are very sneaky, taking every possible measure to make their scam look legitimate. [4 Ways to Protect Your Business from Cybercriminals] PhishLabs noted some key…

Using IoE technology, researchers experiment with ways to monitor, detect and repair bridge defects. The two-mile six-lane Charilaos Trikoupis Bridge in Greece links the town of Rio on the Peloponnese peninsula to the mainland, spanning the Gulf of Corinth. Its 300 or so sensors monitor its condition, alerting operators when, say, high winds call for shutting the bridge to traffic. Soon after going live about ten years ago, for example, the technology detected unusual vibrations in the bridge’s cables and, in response, engineers added more weights. Such “smart bridges” using…

Strong growth in the PC and Tablet category drives record setting year HONG KONG, May 21, 2014 – Lenovo Group today announced results for its fourth fiscal quarter and full-year ended March 31, 2014. With record full-year revenue of US$38.7 billion, an increase of 14 percent year-over-year, a record full-year pre-tax income of US$1.01 billion, up 27 percent year-over-year and record full year earnings of US$817 million, up 29 percent, Lenovo had a truly outstanding year.  Lenovo expanded its number one position in PCs, adding 2.1 points of market share…

Maggie Holland explains how a well considered and executed cloud strategy can be as secure as on-premise solutions. Nothing is ever 100 per cent secure. Now that we’ve got that piece of truth out of the way, we can focus on how businesses can make their infrastructure, applications and services – ultimately, their data – as secure as possible. There has been much debate as to just how secure the cloud is. For many organisations, it ranks as the number one concern when thinking about moving all or even part…

During the first quarter of 2014 there were 42 million US households with a TV connected to the internet, either via a video game console, Blu-ray disc player, streaming media player or the TV itself. According to the NPD Connected Intelligence Connected Home Report, between Q1 2013 and Q1 2014 the number of homes with a TV connected to the internet grew by six million. The vast majority of this increase was driven by growth in the number of homes with Connected TVs and streaming media players. For the first time,…

The brutal tech truth that links the problems of Rackspace, Dell, HP, IBM, Oracle, SAP, others Analysis What do all ailing enterprise IT companies have in common? Trouble in their core businesses due to the rise of cloud computing. The repercussions that the technology is having on the IT business are all around us, and its effects on the industry are as inevitable as gravity on a dropped bowling ball. Cloud computing’s rise spells trouble for any traditional Western IT company you care to name, and has already started to bite…