10 posts and columns on confidential

Galleon Witness Testifies of "Super Confidential" Deal Tips

in News on March 14, 2011 at 3:22 pm PT

A government witness at the insider-trading trial of Galleon Group founder Raj Rajaratnam told the jury Monday how he leaked details of “super confidential” negotiations between two technology companies to the hedge-fund chief, who was shocked at the terms of the possible deal.

Wi-Fi Hotspot Safety and Mac Viruses

in Mossberg’s Mailbox on December 29, 2010 at 2:50 pm PT

Walt answers readers’ questions on just how safe are Wi-Fi hotspots and should Mac owners worry about computer viruses.

When Good News Is Bad News: Google Reportedly Fires Raise Leaker

in Media on November 10, 2010 at 2:31 pm PT

Google couldn’t possibly think it could hand out checks to 23,000 people and keep it a secret. Right?

No BlackBerry Blackout in UAE

in News on October 8, 2010 at 8:00 am PT

Research in Motion’s BlackBerry service won’t be going dark in The United Arab Emirates on Monday. This morning the the UAE’s Telecommunications Regulatory Authority, which had threatened to ban the service over security concerns, backed off that threat after reaching some sort of deal with RIM.

Will HP Now Stand for Hanky Panicky or Should It Settle With Hurd Over Oracle and Make It All Go Away?

in News on September 8, 2010 at 12:00 pm PT

Once close partners, Oracle and Hewlett-Packard are now competing head-on in the server and data-storage-systems business. That’s the real reality for HP–and not the delicious “Real Housewives of Silicon Valley” reality show the legal battle over exec Mark Hurd has turned into. And no amount of desperate public wrangling is going to change that.

Sorry, Confidential Corporate Data Are Not Part of Your Severance

in News on November 24, 2009 at 6:30 am PT

Here’s a data point to consider amid the tech sector’s continuing job cuts. According to a new study by Cyber-Ark, many employees leaving their jobs aren’t above adding a little something to their separation packages: Confidential corporate data.
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The Twitterhack Is Cloud Computing’s Wake-Up Call: Time for Security That Works

in Media on July 15, 2009 at 5:51 am PT

One downside of being the world’s most talked-about start-up: You become an irresistible target for hackers. And now someone’s made off with a pile of Twitter’s corporate documents, apparently with Google’s unwitting assistance. Time to for a realistic solution to the cloud computing security problem.
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Safety Dance

in The Mossberg Report on November 14, 2006 at 12:01 am PT

You can’t turn around without reading scary stories about the dangers of the Internet — spyware, adware, viruses, spam. But the biggest trend to worry about is the combining of these nefarious tools for criminal purposes. Spam email used to be annoying; now it may lead you to phony web sites set up by identity [...]