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The EMC/RSA breach: What it means

Lawyer behind Android infringement claim has Microsoft ties | Android-iPhone browser speed test called 'flawed'

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The EMC/RSA breach: What it means
I have two immediate words with regard to the EMC/RSA breach: Holy smokes! Add the EMC/RSA breach to a list including the Aurora attack on Google, Conficker, and WikiLeaks as extremely frightening cyber security incidents. Can anyone still claim that we aren't extremely vulnerable to cyber crime, espionage, and outright attacks? Read More


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Gearing Up for IPv6
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Lawyer behind Android infringement claim has Microsoft ties
Edward J. Naughton, is out promoting the idea that Android violates the GPL over on Huffington Post. But Naughton seems to be hiding his ties to Microsoft. Read More

Android-iPhone browser speed test called 'flawed'
Blaze Software stirred up an Apple fanboy hornet's nest today when it released the results of a speed showdown between browsers on Google's Android and Apple's iPhone - and bloggers are now claiming that those results are flawed. Read More

The problem with numbers
It may look good on paper to fire your most experienced people, but deep down you know it won't really save you money. Read More


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Mobile Powerplay: Secure, High Performance, Unified
The mobile revolution is here—and here to stay. iPhone, iPad, Droid--employees bring their mobile devices into the workplace, and they want access to personal and professional information. This brings a new set of concerns for IT and the business: IT needs to ensure that the corporate network and the access remains secure. Register Now

HP "beat the crap" out of Cisco, others
HP says it can "beat the crap" out of its networking competition in price-performance, a big selling point it employs in bids against Cisco. That's the exact phrase HP CEO Leo Apotheker used in describing his company's progress in networking to IDG Enterprise Chief Content Officer John Gallant. Read More

Is This Town Big Enough For Two Open Source WAFs?
About a month ago at the RSA conference we went from having little in the way of open source solutions for web application firewalls to two of them. We previously looked at IronBee the open source WAF project from Qualys and Ivan Ristic. Today we speak with George Hess, CEO of Art of Defence, developers of the open source WAF project. Read More

The Case for Enterprise IPv6
Sure, there will be vast herds of new IPv6 users on the Internet in the coming years now that IPv4 is used up. But broadband providers are taking measures to insure that their new IPv6-enabled customers can still reach IPv4-only content through large-scale NAT solutions like NAT444 and DS-Lite. So what's to worry about? Well, those LSN-based transitional services are what's to worry about. Read More


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Would Stalin have preferred iPhone or Android?
Richard Stallman is nothing if not a reporter's dream, especially when he starts talking about cell phones and a certain Communist Party leader who didn't live long enough to own one. Read More

4Chan Founder Moot: 'Anonymity is authenticity,' Zuckerberg 'wrong'
4chan's founder, Chris "moot" Poole, said Facebook's Zuckerberg is "fully wrong" and that "anonymity is authenticity." Read More

Wiring closet winners and losers
IT management software vendor SolarWinds recently held a photo contest to find the cleanest, most catastrophic and most creative wiring closets. Read More



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