Juniper acquires virtualization security firm
Juniper Networks Monday announced it has acquired Altor Networks, a provider of virtualization security for data centers, for $95 million.
View ArticleMicrosoft, Juniper urged to patch dangerous IPv6 DoS hole
Security experts are urging Microsoft and Juniper to patch a year-old IPv6 vulnerability so dangerous it can freeze any Windows machine on a LAN in a matter of minutes.
View Article8 security considerations for IPv6 deployment
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View ArticleCyberwar and cyber-isolationism
There has been a bit of a splash in the press recently about a mention by former CIA Director Gen. Michael Hayden of the idea of creating new, extra secure internets for government or commerce. Users...
View Article10 technologies that will change the world in the next 10 years
As computational power rises exponentially, not linearly, so does the rate of change - and that means the next 10 years should pack in far more technological change than the last 10.
View ArticleScariest IPv6 attack scenarios
Experts are reporting a rise in the number of attacks that take advantage of known vulnerabilities of IPv6, a next-generation addressing scheme that is being adopted across the Internet. IPv6 replaces...
View ArticleWill the sky fall if you don't deploy IPv6?
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View ArticleCisco rolls out military-strength encryption for ISR router
Cisco has announced a hardware encryption module for its ISR G2 router that allows point-to-point encryption of IP traffic based on what's called "Suite B," the set of encryption algorithms designated...
View ArticleCisco how-to guides for firewalls, IPv6, contact centers and security exams
If you're ready for a technical deep dive in a book, the Cisco Networking Technology Series provides that in its collection of volumes on topics that include Cisco firewalls, Cisco Unity Connection...
View ArticleHackers target IPv6
If your IPv6 strategy is to delay implementation as long as you can, you still must address IPv6 security concerns right now.
View ArticleGoogle services went down for 30 minutes in Asia this morning, CDN says
All of Google's service offerings went offline in some parts of the world during an unusual half-hour outage that mainly affected users in Asia, according to content delivery network provider CloudFlare.
View ArticleApple seeks standard to appease angry university net managers
Under fire from its customers in the higher education market, Apple has proposed creating a new industry standard that would fix problems with its Bonjour zero configuration networking technology that...
View ArticleIf the Internet is magic, why can't we vote on it
Regular as clockwork -- just after an election which generated far too many stories of people waiting far too long to vote (and far too many local election officials saying that everything went fine...
View ArticleSyria suffers nationwide Internet blackout
Internet access in Syria has been shut off nationwide, and network watchers Akamai and Renesys have issued charts illustrating the dramatic traffic collapse.
View ArticleInfuriated by Internet shutdown, Anonymous declares war on Syrian government...
The hactivist group Anonymous reacted angrily to the Internet shutdown yesterday in Syria, an act attributed to the embattled regime of Syrian President Bashar Assad in the civil war there. Anonymous...
View ArticleWhat's lurking in your network? Find out by decrypting SSL
Organizations have spent vast sums of money on security systems and, when deployed and operated correctly, they play a key role in safeguarding the organization. However, most systems have one critical...
View Article5 years after major DNS flaw is discovered, few US companies have deployed...
Five years after the disclosure of a serious vulnerability in the Domain Name System dubbed the Kaminsky bug, only a handful of U.S. ISPs, financial institutions or e-commerce companies have deployed...
View ArticleKey recommendations for SDN IT buyers
Software defined networking (SDN) offers significant opportunities and challenges for enterprise IT professionals. SDN has the potential to make networks more flexible, reduce the time to provision the...
View ArticleJuniper routers open to attack
A flaw has cropped up in Juniper's router operating system that can cause the systems to crash and reboot.
View ArticleApparently we can wait: Obama's online privacy effort
It has now been just about a year since the Obama administration put forth its online privacy blueprint. In spite of a title on the announcement that insisted "We Can't Wait," not much has happened...
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