Archive for February, 2010

Malware Still A Challenge To IT Security

University Park, Pa. — Identity theft continues to be a serious problem nationwide, and according to the nonprofit Identity Theft Resource Center, (ITRC) the economic recession may be a cause in the rise in scams, thievery and hacking. According to the center, confirmed breaches in the United States in 2009 resulted in 222,477,043 records containing [...]

Simulation technology heads for the cloud

The price tag might be small, but the effect could be groundbreaking as Parabon Corp. takes on a NASA project to develop simulation technology that can served up through any standard Web browser. Under a two-year, $600,000 Small Business Innovation Research award, Parabon, of Reston, Va., will use its grid computing software, Frontier Grid Platform, [...]

How ‘Paperless’ Affects Printer Makers

There’s a lot of talk about how online media consumption has been a thorn in the side of publishers. But it’s just as big a problem, if not bigger, for printer makers. As people get larger screens and become more adept at consuming much of their media intake without paper, the need for printers drops. [...]

Share Your Printers & Hard Drives With Belkin

If you have multiple computers but only one printer and/or external hard drive, it can be a real chore getting data to and/or from the various devices if you don’t “have an in” with someone who can set up your network for you. Sure, you can drag the drive around with you, plugging it into [...]

IE Flaws Affects Outlook Clients

The recent security flaws discovery in Internet Explorer also affect other Microsoft applications as well, reports the German BSI Federal Office for Information Security. It is reported that the loophole has potential risk for hackers to exploit application like Outlook family – Outlook 2003, Outlook Express, Live Mail and Windows Mail. The security gap has [...]

Welcome to Digizmo.net

Welcome to Digizmo.net, your one stop informative blog for your IT and computing world. Allow me to wish you a Happy New Year, although today is the 1st day of the second month of 2010. Computers has become important tools in our daily life. Whether we like it or not, our life has been greatly [...]