The existence and operation of massive, coordinated, government-affiliated online espionage networks is typically the province of television or the silver screen, rather than the subject of research. In the real world, even a direct link between online and offline action (Russia’s invasion of Georgia and the simultaneous online attacks against that country are a good [...]
Browsing Posts published in March, 2009
IT news might be bad in almost every corner of the industry, but one industry segment seems better fit to ride out the recession than most. Sales of security appliances to various business sectors in Western Europe grew revenue a total of 14.4 percent in 2008 as compared to 2007, but that growth slacked off [...]
Wednesday, at an event in Santa Clara, Sun Microsystems and the Internet Archive announced a joint effort to move the Archive’s growing, three-petabyte (about 150 Libraries of Congress) data store into one of Sun’s Modular Datacenters—the famous datacenter in a shipping container, which we’ve covered previously. The Archive, which also hosts the ever-popular Wayback Machine, [...]
Experts: U.S. needs to defend its “cyber turf” [From News: Experts: U.S. needs to defend its "cyber turf"]
“Google engineers say it was not expensive and required only a small team of developers to enable all of the company’s applications to support IPv6, a long-anticipated upgrade to the Internet’s main communications protocol. ‘We can provide all Google services over IPv6,’ said Google network engineer Lorenzo Colitti during a panel discussion held in San [...]
The dirty little secret about patching routers is that many enterprises don’t bother — for fear of the fallout any changes to their Cisco router software could have on the rest of their infrastructure. But the recent discovery of a way to easily hack these devices has put pressure on organizations to change their ways [...]
The vulnerability is in the program for unpacking JAR archives and merely visiting a crafted website may allow the exploit. An update is available to fix the problem [From Security vulnerability in Sun's Java environment]
Cisco has published the details of several vulnerabilities in its IOS network operating system, some of which could allow a remotely exploited denial of service condition [From Cisco patches several vulnerabilities in IOS]
