While Willy Sutton never really said it, the truth is that people rob banks because that is where the money is. Today's criminals don't walk into banks with loaded guns and get-away drivers. Rather they connect from a remote location using a browser and are armed with hacking tools and spyware.
Amid concerns that the U.S. has a shortage of cybersecurity professionals, a new consortium of U.S. government and private organizations aims to identify students with strong computer skills and train them as cybersecurity guardians, warriors and "top guns."
3Com next week is expected to unveil a pair of applications - one for Asterisk VoIP and the other for WAN acceleration/optimization - that run on its MSR series of multiservice routers.
Juniper this week unveiled a version of its fabric switches for mid-sized data centers and also increased the scalability of its core Ethernet switches.
3D printing's capabilities in art, sculpture and toys have generated considerable buzz at South by Southwest Interactive over the past few days. But one Austin, Texas-based group has a more controversial application in mind: guns.
Recently, we discussed Steve's rather surprising move from residential to business DSL. And while we're sticking by our proverbial guns that forcing this move could be considered questionable, it turns out that for Steve it was not a bad move.
Editorial: Beyond NAC: the internal controls
While some of the biggest guns are focusing on network access control, a few small companies are asking how to regulate where users go once they're inside.
The sooner the anti-spyware community can figure out how best to collaborate in its fight against the common enemy, the better off enterprise buyers will be. It remains to be seen, however, if the small anti-spyware vendors will join an effort led by big anti-virus players. We hope they do.
Foundry Networks went “old school” on last week’s Interop with a flurry of product announcements that brought to mind the good old days of big trade shows and the corresponding big news.
Foundry Networks went “old school” on last week’s Interop with a flurry of product announcements that brought to mind the good old days of big trade shows and the corresponding big news.
The U.S. Senate voted in favor of the renewal of the Undetectable Firearms Act of 1988 last night, with the intention of preventing an increase in the production of plastic, 3D-printed guns.
Guns, saws, and some very dim-witted thieves were all apparently involved in a network blackout that affected Internet users, primarily in the Northeastern U.S., earlier this week.
Four days ago, top-notch computer security researchers launched an assault on Waledac, a highly sophisticated botnet responsible for spreading spam and malicious software.
ARLINGTON, VA – IOActive, a small security consulting company, brought out some big guns to help defend itself against an RFID giant at the Black Hat conference here Wednesday.
As much as we and Sealand might like to think that the law would defend our rights, the fact is that when a government or even a large corporation decides that something is broken and needs fixing, it's might not right that will prevail. A few large guys with guns most often hold the winning hand.
For much of its existence, Woodward Governor Co. has been building fuel nozzles and other parts for jet aircraft engines the old-fashioned way -- carefully designing them, building physical prototypes out of raw materials, conducting tests and finally creating production parts.
Apple brought out the big guns, from CEO Tim Cook to musical performer Drake, but perhaps the loudest reaction at the company's Worldwide Developers' Conference Monday in San Francisco resulted from news that the Swift programming language is being open sourced.
Computer Associates last week sent its big guns to a local user event in an effort to show support for its newest customers and detail CA's commitment to product integration and development.
Computer Associates last week sent its big guns to a local user event in an effort to show support for its newest customers and detail CA's commitment to product integration and development.
The global financial crisis may have left many people uncertain about their job security, but IT professionals remained stoic and refused to consider an alternative career throughout the downturn, according to new research.
Drugs, hitmen, and money laundering are among the trove of iffy material on the dark web, a research group has found. Surprisingly sparse was extremist religious propaganda.
Drugs, hitmen, and money laundering are among the trove of iffy material on the dark web, a research group has found. Surprisingly sparse was extremist religious propaganda.