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Latest News

  • Bogus intranets scam university students

    Such servers often contain personal data such as grades, names, addresses, and payment information.The company offers screenshots from one attack in its February Online Fraud Report, that of a bogus website purporting to belong to an unnamed…
  • Kaspersky invents security suite for 'expert' user

    Mobile phones can also be used as tokens to unlock this database via Bluetooth when they come within range of the PC.The product also addresses a common weakness of many security software products which assume a single user and a single PC.
  • Copycat China Google hacks are on pace to double this year

    Whoever wants to gain access to these people's computers is very, very serious," Hypponen said.While he has no smoking-gun evidence that China is behind the attacks, tying IP addresses to China and the massive scale and coordination of the attacks…
  • Investigation software snoops through social networks

    It can look for statistically likely matches, by studying things like the gender, nationality, age, location, home and work addresses of people.Another component can trace the location of someone using a mobile device such as a laptop or phone.
  • VeriSign: DNSSEC to improve Internet security

    VeriSign is reporting no serious problems with its ongoing deployment of DNS Security Extensions (DNSSEC) on the Internet's root servers and on the top-level domain servers that it operates, including the systems that power the popular .com and…
  • Spanish police shut down 'world's largest' botnet

    Spanish authorities have arrested three men in an operation that has crushed a major botnet network of infected computers.The Mariposa botnet, which appears to be one of the world's largest, took over millions of computers, many of which continue…

Latest Features

  • HTML 5 to shake up the web

    Such stylistic attributes are now considered the exclusive domain of CSS.The new standard introduces additional data types for form input elements, including dates, URLs and email addresses. Among web developers, anticipation is mounting for HTML 5…
  • Overlooked online threats

    LongURL also offers a set of APIs that can be integrated with things like jQuery, so people who integrate link-shortening tools into their own sites or programs can make use of such tools, too.In addition, many Twitter clients, such as TweetDeck…
  • Is your network in gold medal shape?

    Upcoming DNSSEC deployment will change networking life as you know it and you are already planning the additional headcount it would require to create key pairs, roll over keys and provide expertise to other departments.You wonder how you will…
  • Where do web giants stand on IPv6?

    Less than 10% of IPv4 addresses remain unallocated as of January.IPv4 uses 32-bit addresses and can support approximately 4.3 billion individually addressable devices on the Internet. IPv6, on the other hand, uses 128-bit addresses and can support…
  • US ISP launches IPv6 trial

    The dwindling stock of IPv4 addresses means that organisations are ramping up their efforts on the replacement protocol IPv6. IPv4 uses 32-bit addresses and can support around 4 billion IP addresses. More than 90% of IPv4 addresses have been…
  • The future of IT application architectures

    Plan for load balancing throughout the application.Many applications support load balancing at the web server layer, but assume constant numbers (and IP addresses) for application components at other layers.
 

How-Tos

  • How to use open APIs to boost your business

    Third party use of a company's APIs increase revenue potential, but it also ups the risk of core system downtime based on factors beyond the company's control, whether through misuse or abuse of the open API.As you'd expect, Sonoa Systems…
  • How to set up Cisco Flexible NetFlow (with Lego)

    You can create new and exciting records that can contain new LEGO blocks like MAC addresses and other helpful network information.Now you're starting to see why FNF ROCKS! Continuing its role as "NetFlow's technology evangelist," Plixer developed…
  • Security tips for large and small businesses

    A good attacker performs reconnaissance by scanning a target organisation's website, quarterly SEC filings (if a public organisation), and press releases to find names of key personnel and email addresses.If that fails, attackers will probably…
  • How to fix cloud security

    When the end user moves between an Oracle- and a Symplified-managed domain, for example, he still has to log on again but he can use the same set of credentials, Anderson says.Symplified and Ping Identity are two vendors that currently provide SSO…
  • How to track network problems with Wireshark

    Switches are a refinement of hubs in that they discover the hardware addresses associated with each port and only transmit relevant traffic between ports. Ethernet networks can run remarkably well for long periods of time, lulling IT admins into a…
  • How to secure your data in the cloud

    The key takeaway for security architecture is that the lower down the stack the cloud service provider stops, the more security capabilities and management consumers are responsible for implementing and managing themselves," the report says.For…

Reviews

  • Dell PowerConnect 8024F review

    Naturally, performance dipped somewhat with smaller packet sizes, but overall the throughput was where it should have been.The rest of the raw specs on the 8024F are about what you might figure for a 10G switch: LACP link aggregation of up to…
  • Cisco OTV review

    It also then begins responding to requests for remote MAC addresses it's learned on the local LAN segment, essentially proxying those addresses. Long distance VMotion via Cisco Overlay Transport Virtualisation, or how to succeed at data centre…
  • Xerox WorkCentre 3220 review

    It can even scan and send directly to email addresses without a PC client application, which is particularly handy. The multifunction can store individual and groups of email addresses. Unfortunately, the address book can only configured from the…
  • SonicWALL firewalls round up

    As with NAT, our firewall grew an amazing number of default rules, 93 to be exact, by the time we had finished adding a few extra zones and giving it some IP addresses. Policies have a variety of other qualifiers as well, such as IP addresses
  • Microsoft DirectAccess review

    The following list of DirectAccess requirements comes directly from Microsoft TechNet:One or more DirectAccess servers running Windows Server 2008 R2 with two network adapters: one connected directly to the Internet, and a second connected to the…
  • Synology DiskStation DS509+ review

    Synology has also added a software firewall and Auto Block, which bars IP addresses after a predetermined number of password failures. Synology's DiskStation DS509+ is a great value network-attached storage (NAS) device with five drive bays…

White Papers

  • Business service efficiency: The key to green IT and profitability

    This paper presents a holistic approach that addresses Green IT within the broader context of increasing business service efficiency and reducing the cost of IT. Learn how to use what you have already without buy new hardware to realise greater…
  • Storage virtualisation explained

    This paper explains what is meant by storage virtualisation, the storage problems it addresses, the approaches to it that are available, the potential benefits and a few pitfalls to watch out for. Find out why storage virtualisation is here for the…
  • Web 2.0 and sales process management

    Online survey results Instead of focusing on specific technologies such as social networking, blogs, wikis, or other technologies, it focuses on business processes and addresses the following questions:1.
  • Security and Trust: The backbone of doing business over the internet

    This paper explores the current state of this technology and the contributions VeriSign is making to help organisations to protect critical data and instill trust for their customers.It begins with encryption and Secure Sockets Layer (SSL), the…
  • A smarter approach to WAN optimisation

    This white paper will demonstrate how organisations can overcome common bandwidth congestion and network issues by implementing a Unified Performance Management solution that addresses the three key requirements of application performance…
  • Software licensing in virtual environments

    However, software vendors need to maintain customer satisfaction and avoid prohibiting legitimate use of their applications by honest users.This white paper describes the potential for software misuse through virtualisation and addresses potential…
 
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