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Why you should perform regular security audits
Techguide One of the only ways to determine whether your companies' computer systems are secure is by performing a thorough audit.
Tags: Business security, Security, Security Management
Public VoIP phones vulnerable to hacking
News Two researchers demonstrate how unprotected, public VoIP phones could expose the internal network of a company or organization.
Tags: VoIP/IP telephony, Security, Hacking
Firewall strategy: Try distributed
Insight Distributed firewalling is a recent approach to network security. If you connecting private networks to multiple branch locations, this could be your ticket.
EU begins IPv6 rollout
News First European Union agency has begun offering services over version 6 of the Internet Protocol to drive adoption.
Tags: IPv6, DNS, IPv4, public sector, European Commission, information security, internal network, security tool, IPv6, European Union
Alcatel-Lucent grows Australian business
News Telecommunications vendor's Australian revenues in calendar year 2008 grew US$35 million to reach a total of US$700 million.
Tags: Mobile platforms/communications, LANs and WANs, Sales/revenue, Alcatel, Telecommunications, Sales, FTTH, Telstra Corp., internal network, network
RIM records all employee calls
News BlackBerry maker Research in Motion concedes it recorded all staff conversations in order to keep control of intellectual property.
Tags: Privacy, Generation Y, RIM BlackBerry, Chief Information Officer, Research In Motion Ltd., Device, Sydney, intellectual property, CIO, internal network
IBM and Juniper collude on the cloud
News The companies have announced a cloud collaboration, including load management and migration services.
Tags: Business applications, Mobile applications, Mobile platforms, IBM Corp., Juniper Networks Inc., Cloud Computing, Gartner Inc., Service, public Internet, console
Google helping to expand undersea cable infrastructure
News Company is helping build an undersea cable to bring more Internet capacity to Asia as it also looks for partners for an undersea cable to Africa.
Tags: Networking, Legal, Google Inc., India, Philippines, Cable, phone, internal network, U.S., strategy
IBM opens 'social software' development center
News Based in Cambridge, Mass., it is designed as a research hub for everything from cloud computing to social search.
Tags: R&D, Business applications, IBM Corp., Social Software, Social Computing, Cloud Computing, venture capital, social search, Dow Jones & Company Inc., internal network
Windows Server 2008 R2 and Windows 7 provide DirectAccess to resources
Techguide Learn how Microsoft's DirectAccess feature allows an employee to access Windows Server 2008 R2 resources from anywhere.
Tags: Microsoft Windows, Server platforms, Microsoft Windows 7, Server, Microsoft Windows Server 2008, VPN, Microsoft Windows Server, Microsoft Windows, Internet, IPv6
Researchers tout 'wimpy nodes' for Net computing
News Carnegie Mellon researchers believe flash memory and feeble processors can do what conventional servers can't: power Internet sites at low power and low cost.
Tags: Components, Processors, Intel Corp., Computing, FAWN, David Andersen, Storage, Server, Intel Atom, Carnegie-Mellon University
Twitter's network gets breached again
News For the second time this year, someone has broken into Twitter's internal admin system and accessed accounts.
Tags: Hacking, Twitter, Security, Mobile, Yahoo! Inc., Cell Phone, Password, e-mail, network, blog
DNS resource records still open to malicious redirection
Techguide Attacks against DNS cache integrity are an easy way for criminals to redirect your unsuspecting users to malicious sites. Learn more about how DNS works and what exactly DNS cache poisoning is.
Tags: LANs and WANs, Network security, Domain names, NIST, Security, Domain Name, DNS Server, Entry, IP, IP Address
Q&A: Kevin Mitnick, from ham operator to fugitive to consultant
News World's most famous hacker talks about how teenage quest to hack his cell phone led him to break into corporate networks, spend three years as a fugitive, and ultimately end up in prison.
Tags: Hacking, PC security, Security Management, Security, Motorola Inc., Cell Phone, computer, phone, hacking, network
Consider taking a distributed approach to firewalls
Techguide Jonathan Yarden discusses the benefits of distributed firewalling and mentions some of the issues companies should consider when using this approach.
Tags: Security, Network security, Hacking, Viruses and worms, Policy and management
