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  • Online shoe retailer Zappos hacked: What we can learn from this

    Zappos.com - the online source for shoes - was the victim of an attack that compromised account information for millions of customers. Zappos customers need to understand what is at stake, and be on alert for suspicious or malicious activity resulting from the attack.

  • Shady RAT shows security vendors have their priorities wrong

    Security vendors seem more focused on fighting each other than protecting their customers.

  • The perils of keeping a mobile workforce connected abroad

    It's been a rough time of late for global business travellers who need to stay in touch.

  • Six new and rising hacker threats

    Hackers never sleep, it seems. Just when you think you've battened down the hatches and fully protected yourself or your business from electronic security risks, along comes a new exploit to keep you up at night. It might be an SMS text message with a malevolent payload or a stalker who dogs your every step online. Or maybe it's an emerging technology like in-car Wi-Fi that suddenly creates a whole new attack vector.

  • Why Digital Rights Management deserves to be forgotten

    Today may be "Star Wars" Day thanks to its lispy slogan, "May the 4th be with you," but it's also a day the Free Software Foundation has chosen to call attention to a tech-enabled problem. Specifically, by designating May 4 as its Day Against DRM, the organization hopes to draw attention to the high costs of digital rights management.

  • Ten top utilities for managing a small network

    If you have a small network at your business or at home, you need help and lots of it. For your home network, you are by default the network administrator. You may also be the de facto network administrator at work, in addition to the other job titles you could claim. And if you are the acknowledged network administrator, you probably have little or no backup staff.

  • Intrusion prevention is losing steam in a virtual machine world

    Intrusion-prevention system (IPS) vendors have not found it easy to recast their appliances for use in the virtual-machine (VM) environment. But now McAfee and Sourcefire claim to have overcome some hurdles, at least with VMware's VM.

  • Top 10 Cisco rivals

    Competition is only getting tougher for Cisco as it continues to expand in 30 or so new markets while attempting to maintain growth in its core routing and switching businesses.

  • FCC plans will put WiFi on steroids

    The FCC will vote next week to make the white space portion of the television broadcast spectrum publicly available for use in wireless networks. If approved, it could enable a new generation of "WiFi on steroids" devices capable of transmitting data through walls and over much greater distances than current wireless technologies.

  • A simple guide to wireless network security

    Tips for ensuring that employees don't reveal private data when they log into public Wi-Fi networks at hotels, coffee shops and Internet cafes.





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