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Article | 24/10/2009 Extreme Networks replaces CEO, lays off 70

Ethernet switch vendor Extreme Networks is replacing its CEO and laying off 70 employees in an effort to quickly improve the company's bottom line and...

Article | 22/10/2009 Gaping security hole turned 64,000 Time Warner cable modems into hacker prey

A blogger helping to tune a friend's wi-fi network uncovered a gaping security hole in Wi-Fi cable modem routers installed in 64,000 Time Warner subsc...

Article | 14/10/2009 Free tool protects Twitter users from malware hiding behind tiny URLs

AVG Technologies is offering a free software tool to protect Twitter users from malicious sites that lurk behind shortened URLs.

Article | 14/10/2009 Tweet? Help write a novel

Famed graphic novelist Neil Gaiman started a novel Tuesday on Twitter and is enlisting others to finish writing it one tweet at a time.

Article | 6/10/2009 Prototype security software blocks DDoS attacks

Researchers have come up with host-based security software that blocks distributed denial-of-service attacks without swamping the memory and CPU of th...

Article | 25/09/2009 Chambers' pay package climbs 16% while Cisco net income falls 23%

Cisco CEO John Chambers got a 16% raise this year, according to calculations made by the Associated Press, including a US$2 million bonus for vision a...

Article | 18/09/2009 Microsoft Internet Explorer SSL security hole lingers

Microsoft still does not acknowledge a weakness in its Internet Explorer browser that was pointed out seven weeks ago and enables attackers to hijack ...

Article | 24/08/2009 10 cutting-edge spy gadgets

We've collected some novel spy gadgets, including some commercial products.

Article | 24/08/2009 ConSentry Networks goes out of business

NAC pioneer ConSentry Networks is going out of business effective today, according to the company's founder.

Article | 28/07/2009 10 ways your voice and data can be spied on

Attackers seeking to do harm or mischief to networks work with an ever expanding arsenal of tools that sometimes seem to be the stuff of spy fiction, ...

Article | 28/07/2009 Low-tech Internet scams net big money

Domino's Pizza lost about US$77,000 in free pizza due to a weak password on an online promotion that wasn't supposed to go live -- a type of security ...

Article | 15/07/2009 Latest malware trick: outsourcing quality assurance

Creators of Waledac malware enlisted the Conficker botnet as a tool to spread malware of their own, marking the first time Conficker was made availabl...

Article | 10/07/2009 How to use electrical outlets and cheap lasers to steal data

If attackers intent on data theft can tap into an electrical socket near a computer or if they can draw a bead on the machine with a laser, they can s...

Article | 25/06/2009 FAQ: What's going on with Nortel?

With Nokia Siemens bidding on Nortel's wireless business and Avaya rumored to be grabbing up its enterprise gear, it is all but inevitable that the re...

Article | 17/06/2009 Google urged to beef up Gmail security

Google is weighing whether to encrypt its Web-based Gmail service by default, as suggested by a group of internationally prominent Internet security a...