We use the term Real User Monitoring to explain what Coradiant’s technology does. The term sounds a bit nebulous, but it does the job. Of course, there are lots of people who think they do real user monitoring; so I’m going to try and explain the differences between us and some of the distinctions.Synthetic testsFirst [...]

I attended the small event Sun hosted this evening to talk about the next steps towards an open source Java world. On hand for the discussion were Sun Software EVP Rich Green, VP of Developer Programs and Products Laurie Tolman,...

Here's a sophisticated credit card fraud ring that intercepted credit card authorization calls in Phuket, Thailand.

The fraudsters loaded this data onto MP3 players, which they sent to accomplices in neighbouring Malaysia. Cloned credit cards were manufactured in Malaysia and sent back to Thailand, where they were used to fraudulently purchase goods and services.

It's 2006 and those merchant terminals still don't encrypt their communications?

There is a lot of “ITIL® talk” and buzz about Business Service Management (BSM) on conference calls and in boardrooms these days. It’s not like the dot-com bubble. This is real.  But what are the CIO and their teams doing about it? They should be asking “What do we need to do to get the full value from our Business Service Management initiatives? How do we streamline, link and optimize our IT and business functions?”

USENIX security and Blackhat collided for the first time this year.While the rest of my coworkers bounced between parties^H^H^H^H presentations in Vegas, I sat in a Vancouver hotel room reviewing papers with a program committee between talks. The divide between those who break and those who build was never starker - with the exception of [...]

How to win 50,000 euros by compressing humanknowledge: "

Move over Turing Test. Stepback LoebnerPrize. The latest proposal for a simple test for machineintelligence is the HutterPrize for Lossless Compression of Human Knowledge.

I was at Craigslist recently, and heard they were being kicked out of a hosting facility for being widly popular - in order to serve a massively expanding user base, their growing infrastructure was requiring more electricity than the facility could supply.

Department of Homeland Security, Office of the Inspector General, "Review of CBP Actions Taken to Intercept Suspected Terrorists at U.S. Ports of Entry," OIG-06-43, June 2006.