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SANTA CLARA, Calif.—NetApp confirmed the availability of a new a Flash-based storage array, enhancements to the company’s flagship storage array and the availability of server-caching software that promises to increase storage performance by 80 percent while reducing storage latency by 90 percent. Manish Goel, NetApp’s executive vice president of product operations, announced the products Feb. […]

Dell’s acquisition of SonicWall has started to bear fruit, at least with the latest edition of SonicWall’s Secure Remote Access product line. The new SRA 4600, which started shipping in early November, is now emblazoned with Dell’s logo along with the established SonicWall brand name. Beyond the new packaging, the SRA 4600 is still all […]

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Public cloud adoption has moved beyond the testing and development phase in many companies, according to a study of 243 IT and business professionals in North American and Western Europe. The study, commissioned by virtualization specialist VMware and conducted by analyst firm Enterprise Strategy Group (ESG), found 67 percent of the midmarket and enterprise companies […]

By: Robert Lemos Companies’ front doors on the Internet, their Web applications, are attacked almost 120 days of the year on average, and attackers are more likely to pound on the door than pick the lock or quietly knock, according to an analysis of attack data published by business security firm Imperva on Aug. 7. […]

By: Robert Lemos A typical digital kidnapping often begins with the victim inadvertently running a malicious program. The ransomware, as such programs are called, then encrypts the computer hard drive and offers to sell the victim the encryption key for a small fee. Over the past few months, security professionals have engaged in a cat-and-mouse […]

By: Robert Lemos As the Olympics go into Week Two in London, security experts are warning consumers seeking news on the events to beware of fraudsters that are attempting to sell anything from free access to Olympic TV coverage to venue tickets. On Aug. 3, Web security firm Zscaler reported that nearly 80 percent of […]

By: Robert Lemos Routers made by China-based Huawei Technologies have very few modern security protections and easy-to-find vulnerabilities, two network-security experts stated at the Defcon hacking convention. The two researchers-Felix “FX” Lindner and Gregor Kopf, both of Recurity Labs-analyzed two small-office routers made by Huawei and found a number of vulnerabilities. The ease with which […]

By: Robert Lemos More than 200 unique families of malware have been used to eavesdrop on corporate and government employees, including attacks on the Japanese government, according to the results of a study of cyber-espionage activities released on July 25. Unlike the massive botnets used by cyber-criminals to steal cash, such as the “Gameover” Zeus […]

By: Robert Lemos A peer-to-peer botnet has infected more than 675,000 systems, including those at 14 of the top 20 Fortune 500 companies, according to research released July 25 at the Black Hat security conference. The botnet, known as Gameover, uses a private version of the Zeus framework, a collection of software components needed to […]