IBM is using technology from recently acquired Consul in new software designed to help businesses meet security and compliance guidelines.

The new IBM Tivoli Compliance Insight Manager allows companies to track, report and investigate non-compliant behavior across their enterprise. The software monitors user behavior in comparison to corporate policies, automatically providing alerts when data or systems are inappropriately accessed, or if security policies have been violated.

In this report, The Evolution of Self-Defense Technologies in Malware, Kaspersky Lab senior malware analyst Alisa Shevchenko notes that as antivirus protection has developed, virus writers have been forced to find new methods of protecting their creations, among the approaches, polymorphism, metamorphism, and other self-defense techniques such as code encryption and obfuscation. Along with detailed analyses of these methods, Shevchenko presents a range of forecasts and trends straight from the Lab, including a list of self-defense technologies that threaten to evolve more actively than others.

In conclusion, Shevchenko theorizes that the standoff between cyber criminals and virus writers can be seen as an arms race–one in which the achievements of one side will be matched by increasing activity on the other side. And although there is no foreseeable end to the arms race between virus writers and antivirus companies in the near future, if all those involved make an effort, it will be possible to slow down the process.

Karl Rove, Senior Advisor to the President of the United States, is one of the most powerful people in Washington. He conducts a vast amount of political and official business via his BlackBerry. He also apparently regularly loses his BlackBerry. Why do we here at ZATZ have this scoop when everyone else missed it? Read our special report to learn what else is disturbing about White House email in this latest article of our special report series.

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The Lotus Expeditor Client gives you an extensive network management framework that can be used to make applications network aware. It gives applications access to the network status of the client platform as well as its connectivity to remote resources; it also notifies an implementing application of a change in network state. The Lotus Expeditor network framework is also extensible and provides two extension points that applications can use to provide custom detecting and handling of network faults.

This article explains the network capabilities of Lotus Expeditor Client and walks you through a step-by-step example of how to make your application network aware.

IBM plans to release the final version of DB2 Viper 2, a major upgrade to its DB2 9 database software, before the end of this year, a company spokesman said this week.

DB2 Viper 2 went into open beta last week and is the first major refresh of IBM’s DB2 9 database since its release in July last year. The beta program is open to DB2 customers willing to test the software and provide feedback to IBM to help it hone the product, said Bernie Spang, director of IBM data servers.

Legislation that would overhaul the U.S. patent system would hurt innovation and decrease the value of patents, representatives of two tech companies said Wednesday.

Though the legislation is supported by many large IT vendors, two bills now being considered by the U.S. Congress, both called the Patent Reform Act, go too far in watering down the patent system, said representatives of Texas Instruments and AmberWave Systems, a New Hampshire semiconductor manufacturer.

A criminal case against some of the people implicated in the Hewlett-Packard pretexting scandal may wrap up Thursday in a courtroom in San Jose, California.

A hearing is scheduled in Santa Clara County Superior Court in the cases against former HP legal counsel Kevin Hunsaker, private investigator Ronald DeLia and research consultant Matthew DePante.

At a hearing in March, a state judge said charges against the three defendants would be dismissed if they performed 96 hours of community service and paid restitution to the victims. At that same hearing, state charges against former HP chairman Patricia Dunn were dismissed altogether.

On the face of it, Russia has strong tech foundations. Despite the economic tribulations that followed the Soviet Union’s collapse, its scientific legacy lives on in the form of 3,500 scientific research institutes employing 600,000 scientists and engineers. Russian universities churn out some 200,000 science and engineering graduates each year.

Spearheaded by President Vladimir Putin, with backing from leading businessmen and investors, the country has embarked on a sweeping program to promote a high-tech economy. The prize this time: a position in the emerging technologies that will shape the future global economy.

In one corner, representing Sun Microsystems, is Ranger, which might become the fastest supercomputer ever to be built. Ranger will go online by the end of this year in the most appropriate state for superlatives, Texas.

In another corner sits IBM’s famous Blue Gene, which currently has the title of Fastest Supercomputer in the World with a performance of some 360 teraflops.

At the International Supercomputing Conference currently taking place in Dresden, Germany, Sun is offering glimpses of its Sun Constellation System, which it described as "one of the world’s first open petascale computing environments."

YCD, pioneer in on-site digital ambient solutions, has successfully completed validation of its RadioPoint content distribution platform on IBM Store Integration Framework–IBM’s flexible, scalable Java 2 Platform, Enterprise Edition (J2EE), operating environment and componentized architecture, built for retail stores using industry-leading IBM middleware.

The Ready for IBM Retail Store Innovations–Store Integration Framework initiative brings together platform-independent software vendors that deliver proven solutions designed and built for the retail industry. Through this initiative, IBM works with select IBM Business Partners to validate solutions that meet a rigorous assessment of next-generation, open-standards-based store environments.

RadioPoint is a state-of-the-art management platform for the distribution and control of digital media content and remote media players. The platform is targeted for the retail, leisure, entertainment and hospitality markets, where controlling audio and video of multiple zones or locations from a central point is essential. RadioPoint supports distribution of digital content such as audio, video, images and messaging to thousands of locations. It utilizes the Internet to deliver new content and to enable easy customization and full personalization of each and every remote media player. RadioPoint is a scalable, open platform, powered by IBM’s middleware products WebSphere Application Server and WebSphere MQ.