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This eWeek story takes a look at the world of remote e-mail security. A frightening scenario is posed: The writer cites a white paper from Messageware that says people often access their e-mail fr... More >
This has been a bad week for municipal Wi-Fi and a very bad week for EarthLink. The ISP cut 900 jobs and closed several regional offices. This followed a poor second quarter . The piece says ... More >
It's myopic to assume that whether an organization fulfills its compliance and security mandates depends solely on the performance of the software it deploys. Software counts, of course, but the resu... More >
802.11n products -- or at least the pre-standard versions that are flooding the market -- are an increasing factor in businesses . Enterprise planners and those who wear that hat at smaller organiza... More >
These two stories -- one in BusinessWeek and the other a Reuters piece at Canada.com -- are interesting bookends. Reuters reports that Sprint Nextel has chosen Samsung to provide WiMax network ... More >
This nicely done Computerworld column lists 10 statements coming from security vendors, consultants or partners that could spell trouble. The theme is that the person on the receiving end of... More >
Like young actors and actresses hopping tables as they wait for their big break, mobile devices with out-of-the-ordinary form factors are biding their time. And, like those young kids in the diners, ... More >
Phishing is a pernicious and nasty threat that shows no sign of abating. As with any area of security, a close look at what is going on reveals very interesting -- and in many cases distressing -- de... More >
The wireless industry in the United States has evolved under a strangely paternalistic and controlling set of rules in which the cost of devices is highly subsidized in exchange for sharp restriction... More >
The overlapping worlds of unified communications and Web conferencing are growing increasingly competitive and confusing. The latest news is IBM's purchase of WebDialogs, which vnunet.com sa... More >
A spate of studies during the past few months suggests that broadband penetration in the U.S. has slowed for the summer, that the easy gains of the early days may be a thing of the past, and that the... More >
From the "Where Do We Send Our Resume?" Department: In fact, Orchestria's director of sales consulting, David Miller, says its system once blocked one company's boss from sending a message that upbra... More >
The two-day outage that hit Skype's peer-to-peer VoIP service last week at first looked like it could have been caused by a distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack. The reality was that the probl... More >
Just about any Q&A with a federal security administrator is bound to have a tremendous number of strange acronyms and confusing allusions. This session at CSOonline.com with Dennis Heretick, c... More >
There is no rest for weary researchers. Just as 3G deployments are hitting their stride and becoming the norm, attention is turning to 4G . Actually, advanced thinkers have been creating the ... More >
There is an old put-down in the technology game that goes something like this: "XYZ is the technology of the future, and it always will be." That slight fits broadband over powerline (BPL) wel... More >
The speed and efficiency by which data is transferred between computing devices and network elements is a vital issue for the future of convergence applications. Slow or choppy transfers will slow co... More >
This PC Advisor story -- which focuses on the carelessness of UK Facebook members -- will depress security personnel. Facebook, of course, is worlds away from corporate applications. But not all Fac... More >
It appears a transition that has been building for a long time has reached fruition: Vonage, a pioneer of VoIP services, is no longer number one. This isn't much of a surprise , but it certainly mar... More >
It's interesting and useful to periodically step back and look at an emerging technology or application from an outsiders point of view. Or, as in the case of this article in DestinationCRM by Par... More >
The world of publicizing vulnerabilities would be good fodder for a Matt Damon movie if the things being discussed were more tangible and a bit sexier than snippets of computer code. But it is an ex... More >
Novell's acquisition announced Monday of Senforce and RSA's purchase of last week of Tablus are a nice way of highlighting two priorities to which security forces must pay heed. Senforce of... More >
Asterisk is open source IP PBX software that a company can either deploy on its own or roll out with the help of a consultancy, managed service provider or some other outside organization that will c... More >
This IT Defense commentary by Matt Mosher, a senior vice president at PatchLink Corp., advocates a new approach to security. Traditionally, he says, there has been a dividing line between IT securi... More >
The disclaimer on this post is that it is based on a survey that was run Colubris Networks, a vendor that has a horse -- indeed, several -- in the 802.11n race. That being said, it raises interesting... More >
It is truly unfortunate that the world got another chance on August 1 to see how wireless can help in an emergency. This Wi-Fi Planet story describes how the subsidiary of U.S. Internet that is wor... More >
Most of the excitement surrounding high-speed data services -- and the converged services they carry -- centers on phone companies' fiber advances. Cable modems are pretty quick, the thinking goes, b... More >
This Processor piece mentions several approaches to smart phone security. The most space, however, is given to virtual private networks (VPNs), the family of products that create secure private path... More >
This story at USA Today does a good job of laying out for lay audiences -- perhaps including corporate decision-makers -- a problem that clearly has not gone away: Public hot spots aren't secure. ... More >
Whether security forces like it or not, there are a lot of ways that information about vulnerabilities get disseminated through the Internet. One company has even started auctioning information to th... More >
It's difficult to avoid stories that deal on some level with the the future of Google and telecommunications. In some cases, the story reports on some telecom-related news from search giant. In other... More >
The world of metropolitan-area network (MAN) communications creates opportunities for technologies that may not usually get the headlines. One such approach is offered by GigaBeam. This story in Wir... More >
The state of credit card security is important for businesses for a number of reasons. This release, hyping a report from Javelin Strategy , contains a surprising amount of information that is valua... More >
In this Help-Net Security piece, Nick Baskett, the managing director of security firm Matta, says that since 2004 the company has been running Sentinel, a program that tests the technical competenc... More >
When the Black Hat conference rolls around each year, some people no doubt remember the almost certainly apocryphal story about a bar that was frequented by both mobsters and policemen. The idea is t... More >
This nicely done commentary at SeekingAlpha by Paul Callahan delineates very significant differences between femtocells on one hand and consumer-level Wi-Fi access points and routers on the other.... More >
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