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Wednesday, February 16, 2011

Juniper up next with cloud switches

Hacked and now vandalized, HBGary pulls out of RSA | Microsoft has a change of heart on how to keep Internet safe

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Juniper up next with cloud switches
Juniper's data center announcement next week is expected to include switches based on new silicon that allows them to establish a flat fabric for cloud computing. Read More


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Hacked and now vandalized, HBGary pulls out of RSA
The California security company that is at the center of a controversy over a plan to discredit WikiLeaks and its supporters abruptly pulled itself out of the RSA security conference in San Francisco this week, citing security concerns. Read More

Microsoft has a change of heart on how to keep Internet safe
Should ISPs be the ones who keep hacked PCs off the Internet? Microsoft's chief security executive used to think so, but now he's had a change of heart. Read More

Windows zero-day surfaces as researcher releases attack code
A security researcher yesterday disclosed a new unpatched bug in Windows that some experts believe could be used to remotely hijack a PC. Read More

Attack mitigation tools fall short, security vendors say
Acknowledging that security technologies to prevent cyberattacks are insufficient, several vendors at the RSA Conference urged companies that are making security plans to assume that at some point, they will be breached. Read More


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CA cloud service measures security risk, keeps out riff-raff
CA Technologies today announced its cloud-authentication service now features advanced controls to let customers more effectively control who gets into corporate applications. Read More

HP combining IPS and SIEM to better fight malware
HP this week will demonstrate at the RSA Conference how its TippingPoint intrusion detection and prevention (IPS) appliance can work with the ArcSight security and event information management (SIEM) product it acquired late last year to block anomalous threat activities against Web sites. Read More

Femtocells, Wi-Fi to play growing role in mobile networks
Some people may yet debate the value of femtocells, but the tide has turned: in 2010, the number of femtocells around the world exceeded the number of macrocells, according to the Femto Forum. Read More

Why Watson bet odd amounts on Daily Doubles
While I didn't watch Watson vs. the Jeopardy champs last night, my wife did and one of the questions she had afterward was why did the machine bet odd amounts -- $1,246 and $6,435 - on the Daily Doubles when human players almost always wager round numbers. Read More


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Qualcomm has high hopes for augmented reality gaming
Qualcomm is demonstrating a number of augmented-reality games for Android-based smartphones at Mobile World Congress. The games were developed using its AR SDK software development kit. Read More

Cisco invests in home automator
Cisco has invested in Control4, a maker of home automation and energy products. This could be what CEO John Chambers was alluding to when he mentioned linking home network architectures to the smart grid during Cisco's Q2 conference call. Read More

Huawei refuses U.S. panel's advice to divest from 3Leaf
Chinese network supplier Huawei has declined a U.S. panel's recommendation that it voluntarily divest from a business acquisition that has raised national security concerns, likely putting the fate of the deal in the hands of President Barack Obama. Read More

Comcast, Time Warner Cable latest to sign on for 24-hour IPv6 trial
Comcast and Time Warner Cable have joined the throng of network vendors that are participating in World IPv6 Day, a 24-hour trial of the next-generation Internet protocol scheduled for June 8. Read More

Steve Jobs spotted on Apple campus, said to be working on next-gen iPad and iPhone
in a piece of news that should reassure Apple investors even more, Apple CEO Steve Jobs was recently spotted on Apple's Cupertino campus as well as out and about in Palo Alto. Read More



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