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What is true enterprise security and how do you get it? Bogus promises by vendors are all too common. In this interview, outspoken security analyst Nick Selby humorously tackles the truth about data leakage products, smartphone protection, hotspot threats and the word “solution.” Nick Selby leads The 451 Group’s Enterprise Security Practice. Selby also serves as The 451 Group’s Director of Research Operations and is on the faculty of the Institute for Applied Network Security.

Yahoo this week announced that it will support various Semantic Web standards in its new Search Open Platform, the latest move by the company to embrace the emerging Web framework. The company also disclosed more details about its plan to open its search engine to third party developers.

Telstra CEO Sol Trujillo has described the telco’s five year transformation project as a “world first” that involves making the shift to a “principle-based” company.

The spatial information industry is a major contributor to the national economy generating revenue of A$1.37 billion in the 2006/07 financial year, according to a new study released by Australia’s Spatial Information Council (ANZLIC) today.

Outsourcing, grid computing, and hacker professionalism are trends that cannot be stopped, and the sum total of those factors will have a dramatic effect on the way businesses attempt to protect their IT system in the future, researchers and analysts agree.

MySpace on Thursday opened a test version of its applications gallery, allowing its members to install programs built by external developers participating in the social-networking company’s developer program.

Motorola has released a Draft 802.11n access point that supports wireless meshing, plus a new wireless controller.

While lauding Apple’s iPhone as being innovative in the mobile space, a Google official later cited disadvantages of the device, which is expected to compete with upcoming Google-backed Android phones.

If you believe the documentation, the white papers, and the news releases, iTKO’s recently released LISA 4 is an SOA testing tool. That descriptor, however, is modesty riding on the back of the still trendy acronym “SOA” because LISA goes well beyond testing what are typically understood to be SOA components: Under one roof, it houses the abilities to test Web and Java applications, the ESB (enterprise service bus), JMS (Java Message Service) systems, EJBs, databases, combinations of the above, and — oh yes — Web services.

Hackers looking to steal passwords used in popular online games have infected more than 10,000 Web pages in recent days.