You may know that some people, referred to euphemistically as “dumpster divers,” search through garbage for items they find useful/valuable. But did you know that some dumpster divers are much more sophisticated and focused on harvesting data stored on discarded hard drives, full workstations, old mainframe tapes, and now cell phones? With everyone seemingly worried about hackers on the wild internet, we forget about this other security risk. And it is real. These sophisticated dumpster divers can recover data from such discarded items. (more)
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In a previous post about the long running Oracle vs. Google case, we noted that “Oracle has a federal appeals court precedent on its side, which it can use as a sword against all other Java API users who Oracle believes may be violating its copyrights. So, unless and until another court decides otherwise, the IT community should be aware that Oracle may be on the hunt for violators.” (more)
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I’m pleased to report that bTrade has been acknowledged by Info-Tech Research Group as an “experienced and recognized leader in the MFT industry.” The acknowledgement follows a period of evaluation by Info-Tech of bTrade and its MFT products, and is memorialized in a vendor landscape report appropriately titled, “Select and Implement a Managed File Transfer Solution.” (more)
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