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Is email really the nemesis of better collaboration software?

ChiefTech

Following the technology history theme of some of my recent posts ( here and over on CMSWire ), I decided to look back at the history of email to see how strong its claim to the electronic communication 'crown' really is. In 1990, Brownell Chalstrom wrote in CIO magazine that: "electronic mail has taken a while to become indispensable.

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Ten Years Later, New Clues in the Target Breach

Krebs on Security

retail giant Target was battling a wide-ranging computer intrusion that compromised more than 40 million customer payment cards over the previous month. “I’ve started my career in 2002 and since then I worked in Moscow, different regions of Russia, including Siberia and in Finland, Brazil, United Kingdom, Sri Lanka.

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Spotlight Podcast: At 15 Cybersecurity Awareness Month Grows with Cyber Risk

The Security Ledger

The Computers in our Pockets. “In 2002 I had a phone, but I had a separate piece of plastic and metal that was a camera and another piece of plastic and metal that had my music on it.” [See also: DHS announces New Cybersecurity Strategy ]. Progress…at a price.