Wednesday, October 12, 2011

The SSL certificate industry can and should be replaced

Computer infected? Blame yourself, Microsoft report concludes | 4 valuable additions to your cloud security toolkit

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The SSL certificate industry can and should be replaced
The SSL certificate authorities like Comodo that have had their security undermined by hackers shouldn't be trusted, and in fact, the way the entire SSL certificate industry of today works can and should be replaced with something better, says Moxie Marlinspike, a security expert who's come up with a plan he says will do that. Read More


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CIOs demand visibility to IT service performance
Cloud, Virtualization, Mobility, Unified Computing and more, are all creating new, complex IT management challenges. Organizations want integrated service-centric monitoring solutions for service impact visibility and SLA compliance, executive dashboards, datacenter manager operational reporting, and service problem analysis. Read More.

Computer infected? Blame yourself, Microsoft report concludes
Zero-day exploits are nerve-racking for IT professionals but are far less dangerous than unpatched older vulnerabilities for which fixes are available, Microsoft says. Read More

4 valuable additions to your cloud security toolkit
If you ask IT execs why they're hesitant about moving to the public cloud, security comes up at the top of the list. But security vendors are responding to these concerns with a raft of new products. Here are four interesting cloud security tools that we tested. Read More

Microsoft launches Firefox, Chrome attack campaign
In what has become a classic Microsoft-ism, the folks in Redmond on Tuesday launched a website to convince the world that Internet Explorer is the only true safe browser, at least in comparison to Chrome and Firefox. Read More


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See the Entire Network: Past & Present
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Five generic domain names and their journey through time
Remember the go-go days of the 1990s, when dot-com domain names based on ordinary nouns and verbs were snapped up by hopeful companies? Here's a look at five very generic domain names, and where they've been. Read More

Do Nearly Half of Americans Really Want a Windows Tablet?
The iPad is the runaway success story of the tablet market. So why did a recent survey found almost half of people polled want a Windows-based tablet? It could be there is a desire for a real alternative. Read More

Huawei asks U.S. to explain its exclusion from emergency network project
China's Huawei Technologies has called on the U.S. Department of Commerce to explain why the company is apparently being excluded from participation in the construction of a national wireless network for emergency responders. Read More


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Sainsbury's Safeguards Supply Chain for over 800 Stores
Sainsbury operates the second largest online food retailer in the U.K. See their approach to gain better visibility to 1,800 devices and ensure high-availability of its network to safeguard the supply chain for over 800 stores and 100,000 online shoppers per week. Read now

Cisco preps virtual desktops for video
Cisco this week filled out its desktop virtualization product line by adding a thin client that improves processing and bandwidth utilization for voice and video. Read More

Patch Tuesday: IE bug could spread virus; .Net affects Mac users
There were no big surprises in this month's Patch Tuesday. Microsoft issued eight updates, two critical, to fix 23 vulnerabilities. However the two critical patches are doozies. One of them fixes all versions of Internet Explorer on all versions of Windows and the other fixes .Net/Silverlight. Read More

Is Cisco losing thought leadership in the networking industry?
If you work in networking, you've gotta have love for Cisco. Like most of us, I first learned about networking through Cisco, and attaining the CCIE certification would prove to be the basis for launching my career. Read More

Cellphones will become a way to attack otherwise protected devices: report
Mobile phones will become an increasing menace to network security that could drop malware onto protected devices when they dock to sync or plug into USB ports to charge, security experts say in a Georgia Tech report. Read More

Don't get carried away by Hadoop's 'gee whiz' factor
Companies should take a pragmatic approach to implementing Hadoop for their "big data" requirements, a new report released Tuesday by analyst firm Forrester Research urges. Read More



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Over the last decade or so, open source development has skyrocketed, and network management software has ridden that wave. Many frustrated IT administrators have turned to free tools to monitor, configure and map their networked devices. Here are 26 examples of open source network management software tools to help you do your job.

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