Monday, January 26, 2009

10M infected PCs just the start; New Brocade CTO takes aim at Cisco; Intel's Barrett to retire

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Downadup/Conflicker worm: When will the next shoe fall?
By Ellen Messmer
The Downadup worm - also called Conflicker - has now infected an estimated 10 million PCs worldwide, and security experts say they expect to see a dangerous second-stage payload dropped soon. Read full story
Plus: Conficker hitting hardest in Asia, Latin America

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Craig Barrett to retire from Intel
After 35 years with the company, Craig Barrett plans to retire as chairman of Intel in May, the chip maker announced Friday.

Brocade's new CTO takes aim at Cisco
Dave Stevens is in his second go-round as CTO of Brocade, but this time the company has much bigger aspirations.

Heartland tries to rally industry in wake of data breach
The CEO of Heartland Payment Systems is calling for the card payments industry to share security information and consider end-to-end encryption.

Global telecom is bright spot amid tech industry woes
Microsoft and Google may have reported less than stellar financial results this week, but telecommunications companies worldwide are holding their own, according to reports from the 31st Pacific Telecommunications ...

Pack rat nation
As they play in the global information economy, U.S companies stash away more data than they can handle effectively. The six-part 2009 New Data Center series opens with a look at how they're coping with the escalating problem.

Facebook now twice as popular as MySpace
The pioneer of the social networking phenomenon has been totally overshadowed as Facebook recorded almost double the number of global visitors in December than long-time leader MySpace.

Cisco scammers in the slammer
It doesn't pay to commit crimes against Cisco. In separate cases this week, two Cisco scammers were sentenced to jail for commiting crimes with Cisco gear.

IBM confirms layoffs
Despite releasing stronger than expected earnings on Tuesday and at the time expressing optimism for 2009, a round of job cuts is underway at IBM Corp. and it looks like Big Blue's Canadian operations have not been ...

Amazon cloud could be security hole
Cloud services are now vulnerable to malicious use, a security company has suggested, after a techie worked out how Amazon's EC2 service could be used as a BitTorrent file harvester and host.

Monster.com reports theft of user data
Monster.com is advising its users to change their passwords after data including e-mail addresses, names and phone numbers were stolen from its database.

Microsoft to deliver first IE8 release candidate Monday
Microsoft plans to deliver the first release candidate of the next version of Internet Explorer on Monday, according to sources familiar with the company's plans.

Is Obama's handheld a Blackberry or something else?
The decision announced Thursday that President Barack Obama will keep his BlackBerry, or some version of a wireless handheld, amid tight White House security would seem to take a back seat to global terrorism and ...

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01/26/09

Today's most-read stories:

  1. Apple puts iPhone Nano and Netbook rumors to rest
  2. White House confirms: ObamaBerry is a go
  3. In Las Vegas, data center takes power, cooling to the limit
  4. Bull castration and snake eaters: the life of Dave Hitz
  5. Nortel chief flying in corporate jet as company files for bankruptcy
  6. Top 10 YouTube hacking videos
  7. Ballmer provides grim outlook as economy 'resets'
  8. First Killzone 2 reviews roll in
  9. Heartland breach raises questions about PCI standard's effectiveness
  10. Layoffs: Microsoft bent, but not broken


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