http://www.silicon.com Results for underground en-us http://www.silicon.com/i/s/feeds/simple_logo.gif http://www.silicon.com 124 50 News feed from silicon.com http://chkpt.zdnet.com/chkpt/siliconfeed/http://services.silicon.com/itoutsourcing/0,3800004871,39661655,00.htm By the end of this year Tube Lines - the company responsible for maintaining a large part of London Underground's rail network - is on course to have fewer than 24,000 calls to its service desk and a 95 per cent reduction in the number of severity... editorial@silicon.com (Silicon Editorial) Tue, 24 Nov 2009 12:00:02 +0000 http://chkpt.zdnet.com/chkpt/siliconfeed/http://hardware.silicon.com/desktops/0,39024645,39658901,00.htm The underground level houses tables and chairs for customers to relax and take a closer look at the products. Here's a look inside Apple's latest Manhattan store in New York US. Photo: Sarah Tew/CNET Except for the marble supporting walls, it's... editorial@silicon.com (Silicon Editorial) Thu, 19 Nov 2009 14:31:02 +0000 http://chkpt.zdnet.com/chkpt/siliconfeed/http://whitepapers.silicon.com/0,39024759,60729654p,00.htm The business of online fraud has developed into a sophisticated underground criminal operation that continues to evolve everyday. This white paper will examine how the fraudster underground operates, the intricate supply chain that supports it, and... editorial@silicon.com (Silicon Editorial) Tue, 06 Oct 2009 01:22:18 +0000 http://chkpt.zdnet.com/chkpt/siliconfeed/http://whitepapers.silicon.com/0,39024759,60729660p,00.htm Phishing first gained traction in 1996 with hackers trying to steal America Online passwords from unsuspecting users. Today, it has evolved into a far more menacing criminal enterprise, with bands of fraudsters working together to create schemes... editorial@silicon.com (Silicon Editorial) Tue, 06 Oct 2009 01:22:18 +0000 http://chkpt.zdnet.com/chkpt/siliconfeed/http://management.silicon.com/government/0,39024677,39534337,00.htm In the future it will be far easier for music and movie services to go underground and become invisible. Compiled at my home on a sunny autumn day over a morning coffee and dispatched to silicon.com via wi-fi. editorial@silicon.com (Silicon Editorial) Thu, 24 Sep 2009 17:32:02 +0000 http://chkpt.zdnet.com/chkpt/siliconfeed/http://whitepapers.silicon.com/0,39024759,60673631p,00.htm Tube Lines has a 30-year Public Private Partnership (PPP) contract with London Underground. It is responsible for the maintenance and upgrade of the infrastructure on the Jubilee, Northern and Piccadilly lines, including all tracks, signalling... editorial@silicon.com (Silicon Editorial) Thu, 24 Sep 2009 04:12:18 +0000 http://chkpt.zdnet.com/chkpt/siliconfeed/http://management.silicon.com/itdirector/0,39024673,39514439,00.htm Experience has shown that if you try to suppress consumerisation, it will just go underground, which makes any challenges even more difficult to deal with. Just learn to manage it appropriately. There can be little doubt that the personal and... editorial@silicon.com (Silicon Editorial) Wed, 09 Sep 2009 09:00:00 +0000 http://chkpt.zdnet.com/chkpt/siliconfeed/http://whitepapers.silicon.com/0,39024759,60614877p,00.htm This survey of cybercrime activity in the underground economy includes a discussion of some of the more notable groups involved, as well as an examination of some of the major advertisers and the most popular goods and services available. editorial@silicon.com (Silicon Editorial) Wed, 02 Sep 2009 11:27:23 +0000 http://chkpt.zdnet.com/chkpt/siliconfeed/http://whitepapers.silicon.com/0,39024759,60673104p,00.htm The overall security environment has changed with the increase of regulations and requirements whose breach has severe financial consequences for organizations - and with the rise of an underground economy that uses illicitly captured data for... editorial@silicon.com (Silicon Editorial) Tue, 01 Sep 2009 01:21:54 +0000 http://chkpt.zdnet.com/chkpt/siliconfeed/http://whitepapers.silicon.com/0,39024759,60672757p,00.htm This equipment contains a SO 000-ton ultrapure water tank measuring 39.3 meters in diameter, 41.4 meters in height, and located 1000 meters underground. The Institute for Cosmic Ray Research (ICRR) of the University of Tokyo newly established the... editorial@silicon.com (Silicon Editorial) Sun, 30 Aug 2009 01:22:02 +0000 http://chkpt.zdnet.com/chkpt/siliconfeed/http://networks.silicon.com/mobile/0,39024665,39164308,00.htm But it's no longer just a question of untethering your PC from its peripherals or logging on at a coffee shop between meetings - new use cases for wireless technologies are making broadband available over distances of many miles and even, perhaps... editorial@silicon.com (Silicon Editorial) Tue, 11 Aug 2009 14:30:00 +0000 http://chkpt.zdnet.com/chkpt/siliconfeed/http://management.silicon.com/itpro/0,39024675,39481562,00.htm The collider, located deep underground on the border between France and Switzerland, will start out running at an energy level of 3.5 trillion electron volts (TeV) per beam, about half the energy that Cern expects eventually. editorial@silicon.com (Silicon Editorial) Mon, 10 Aug 2009 08:49:01 +0000 http://chkpt.zdnet.com/chkpt/siliconfeed/http://whitepapers.silicon.com/0,39024759,60635073p,00.htm Tube Lines maintains and upgrades half of London's underground system and finds Thin Clients the most efficient way to deliver crucial IT to over 90 remote depots. A cyclical refresh of the old environment was required. editorial@silicon.com (Silicon Editorial) Thu, 30 Jul 2009 01:21:46 +0000 http://chkpt.zdnet.com/chkpt/siliconfeed/http://services.silicon.com/offshoring/0,3800004877,39452615,00.htm In separate news, BT announced it has been awarded a Ministry of Defence contract worth £99m over five years for managed voice and data networks in more than a quarter of a million MoD assets, including buildings, comms rooms and underground cable... editorial@silicon.com (Silicon Editorial) Thu, 16 Jul 2009 16:55:01 +0000 http://chkpt.zdnet.com/chkpt/siliconfeed/http://whitepapers.silicon.com/0,39024759,60613008p,00.htm The corporate losses are the criminals' gains, as compromised systems feed an underground cyber-economy worth millions and millions of dollars. Zero day attacks are a growing threat to corporate networks, because they pass undetected through... editorial@silicon.com (Silicon Editorial) Mon, 13 Jul 2009 00:00:00 +0000 http://chkpt.zdnet.com/chkpt/siliconfeed/http://networks.silicon.com/broadband/0,39024661,39447845,00.htm The thing that really dictates the economies of P rather than C is the amount of civils' work you have to do [ie digging up roads etc to lay fibre] so where we feel there are no civils and we can run fibre all the way to the customer - either... editorial@silicon.com (Silicon Editorial) Thu, 02 Jul 2009 16:33:02 +0000 http://chkpt.zdnet.com/chkpt/siliconfeed/http://whitepapers.silicon.com/0,39024759,60608650p,00.htm With a focus on "Botnets" the paper describes the various parties involved in creating and distributing malware and potentially unwanted software, explaining key techniques and technologies used to attack and compromise users, and giving insight... editorial@silicon.com (Silicon Editorial) Wed, 01 Jul 2009 01:19:37 +0000 http://chkpt.zdnet.com/chkpt/siliconfeed/http://whitepapers.silicon.com/0,39024759,60608661p,00.htm A thriving underground business leases dozens to thousands of compromised systems to Internet miscreants as fast flux service networks. "Fast flux" is an evasion technique that cyber-criminals and Internet miscreants use to evade identification and... editorial@silicon.com (Silicon Editorial) Wed, 01 Jul 2009 01:19:37 +0000 http://chkpt.zdnet.com/chkpt/siliconfeed/http://whitepapers.silicon.com/0,39024759,60608008p,00.htm Laundering e-mail spam through open-proxies or compromised PCs is a widely-used trick to conceal real spam sources and reduce spamming cost in the underground e-mail spam industry. Spammers have plagued the Internet by exploiting a large number of... editorial@silicon.com (Silicon Editorial) Tue, 30 Jun 2009 01:19:29 +0000 http://chkpt.zdnet.com/chkpt/siliconfeed/http://whitepapers.silicon.com/0,39024759,60607974p,00.htm This is due to the overwhelmingly efficient propagation capabilities it naturally offers, as well as the underground community it inadvertently supports. Computer threats have been a part of daily computing lives since 1986, when the boot sector... editorial@silicon.com (Silicon Editorial) Tue, 30 Jun 2009 01:19:29 +0000