Cara Garretson
Recycling IT assets is serious business
Getting rid of old tech equipment now takes as much forethought as purchasing it in the first place did
Stupid data center tricks
Forget cyber attacks, natural disasters, and hardware failures -- the biggest threat to your data center may be human error
Big IT shops get serious about asset disposal
If you're retiring old hardware, you would do well to investigate all your disposal options
12 spam research projects that might make a difference
Research labs are developing new ways to thwart the latest tricks from spammers, phishers, and other cybercriminals
Spammers beg for money in pre-holiday blast
New holiday spam campaign relies on social engineering, not technical tricks, to ask for money
Phishers move beyond eBay, PayPal
Number of messages pretending to be from eBay or PayPal dropped from 85 percent of all phishing e-mails a year ago to 21 percent in September
The Simpsons Movie sparks spam blast
Spate of spam messages entices recipients into validating their e-mail addresses -- leading to more spam
Image spam declining, PDF spam set to take its place
New kind of spam uses an attached PDF file to trick recipients into buying stock in a company
Boston-Power's new battery immune to power fade
New lithium-ion battery suffers less fade and can recharge to 80 percent in thirty minutes