Fahmida Y. Rashid

With the transition to IPv6 network addresses gaining momentum, organizations are checking their infrastructure to ensure they are ready. The last blocks of IP addresses were allocated to Regional Internet Registries (RIR) in a public ceremony on Feb. 3. While each RIR has its own policies and rules for how these remaining addresses will be […]

Chief financial officers at technology organizations are much more optimistic about the outlook of their business than they have been in years past, according to the results of a research report released Feb. 2. A majority of the CFOs said they expected revenues at their organizations to go up in 2011 in the survey, according […]

Cyber-criminals will be disguising malware and phishing scams as Super Bowl commercials and related advertisements to trick unsuspecting viewers, warned security researchers at PC Tools on Feb. 3. The Super Bowl is never just about football, although there will be plenty, as the Green Bay Packers and Pittsbugh Steelers go head-to-head this Sunday at Cowboys […]

Cisco said on Feb. 4 it will acquire digital-media company Inlet Technologies to strengthen its online video-delivery capabilities. Cisco will pay approximately $95 million in cash and retention bonuses in exchange for all shares of the privately held company. The deal is expected to close in the first half of the year, after which all […]

OpenStack, the open-source cloud-computing platform, announced its second release of a cloud operating system on Feb. 3. Code-named “Bexar,” the release focused on solidifying the code base to make it more stable and introduced enterprise-friendly features, according to OpenStack. With Bexar, organizations will find it easier to install OpenStack to create public and private clouds […]

The gradual transition to IPv6, or Internet Protocol version 6, has officially begun, with the distribution of the last five remaining IPv4 address blocks to each regional organization overseeing the net-address assignments. The official distribution took place in a ceremony Feb. 3 in Miami to mark the occasion. AfriNIC, the RIR (regional Internet registry) that […]

Egypt returned to the Internet on Feb. 2 after an unprecedented government-ordered Internet blackout. While the resumption of Internet service put Egypt’s residents and businesses back in touch with the outside world, it also put the spammers and hackers back in business. While analyzing global spam volumes during the five-day shutdown, SophosLabs researchers noticed that […]

U.S. senators who want to give the president power to shut down the Internet denounced Egypt’s president for essentially doing the same thing. “The steps the Mubarak government took last week to shut down Internet communications in Egypt were, and are, totally wrong,” said Senators Joseph Lieberman of Connecticut, Susan Collins of Maine, and Tom […]

The United States government has a special e-mail system that will allow information to be transmitted even if a foreign government cuts off the country’s news and Internet communications with the rest of the world, according to a report from the Broadcasting Board of Governors, an independent U.S. agency responsible for all non-military international broadcasting. […]

Security researchers have identified several new malware strains claiming to take away users’ access to Facebook over the past few days. Users receive messages, either via instant message, e-mail or on Facebook, claiming that their accounts will be shut down. However, the scams promise to restore access if the users follow instructions, the researchers said. […]

GigaSpaces Technologies launched on Jan. 31 its eXtreme Application Platform 8.0, a virtual application platform that can transition existing infrastructure into the cloud, the company said. The XAP 8.0 platform modernizes older infrastructure into distributed architectures, virtualized environments and the cloud, Uri Cohen, product manager at GigaSpaces, told eWEEK. The application platform is suitable for […]

The last IP address blocks in the IPv4 namespace will be automatically assigned to the organizations overseeing the net address assignments three months earlier than expected. The Asia Pacific Network Information Center (APNIC), the organization that oversees net addresses in the Asia-Pacific region, requested and received two blocks of addresses from the Internet Assigned Numbers […]