Jeff Burt

Cisco Systems officials reportedly are talking about the company€™s latest investment, the $100 million it is spending to create a startup called Insieme that will develop products for software-defined networking (SDN) environments. Insieme is being started by three Cisco engineers, and Cisco holds the option to eventually buy the €œspin-in€ company for $750 million, giving […]

Flashback First detected in 2011 as a classic Trojan horse, masquerading as an update to Adobe Flash, the malware evolved into a drive-by exploit that infected the systems of Mac users who visited compromised or malicious sites. The malware infections have dropped over the past couple of weeks, from more than 600,000 to about 140,000, […]

Advanced Micro Devices officials say they are ready to give Intel and its upcoming “Ivy Bridge” chips some competition, with systems powered by their own “Trinity” processors going on sale this quarter. The Trinity accelerated processing units (APUs) are the next generation of mainstream desktop and notebook chips, and will follow the current “Llano” A-series […]

Hewlett-Packard officials are saying that the number of vulnerabilities in commercial applications is continuing to fall, dropping almost 20 percent between 2010 and 2011. However, while the downward trend in vulnerabilities is good news, the risks involved in those vulnerabilities is growing, and cyber-attacks themselves more than doubled in the second half of the year, […]

New York is suing Sprint Nextel for $300 million, claiming the wireless network giant has underpaid and under-collected sales and local sales taxes on its calling plans for more than seven years as part of a larger effort to gain an edge over such competitors as AT&T, Verizon and T-Mobile. By not collecting sales taxes […]

Intel officials are confirming that the first smartphone powered by its chips will go on sale April 23 in India. Intel CEO Paul Otellini first bridged the idea of the smartphone during a conference call April 17 with analysts and journalists to discuss the company€™s first-quarter financial numbers. However, Otellini didn€™t divulge any details, though […]

Avaya is rolling out a new family of compact Ethernet switches that is designed to make it easier for midsize businesses and remote offices to deploy and manage enterprise-class networks without the high-end costs. The company announced on April 18 the Avaya Ethernet Routing Switch (ERS) 3500 series, products that also are suited for such […]

The debate over the controversial Cyber-Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act (CISPA) continues to ramp as the expected House of Representatives vote next week draws near. Tim Berners-Lee, the man credited with inventing the Internet and a staunch advocate for a free and open Web, is the latest to wade into the fray, telling the British […]

The number of Apple Mac systems infected with the Flashback malware has dropped to about 140,000 worldwide, though officials with security software vendor Symantec said that number seems to be tapering off. At its height earlier this month, the Flashback exploit had infected more than 600,000 Macs€”more than 1 percent of the systems in use […]

Hewlett-Packard is looking to give communications service providers and businesses the tools to better deal with the bring-your-own-device (BYOD) trend by enabling employees to safely access corporate data. HP officials on April 18 said they are launching a mobile apps store that enables service providers and enterprises to create, distribute and manage mobile versions of […]

Google may have escaped a Federal Communications Commission inquiry into its collection of sensitive personal data through its Street View project with a $25,000 fine, but the troubles may not be over for the Internet giant. The FCC on April 13 fined Google for impeding its investigation into the company€™s collection of personal data between […]

Privacy advocates are hoping that a week of protests against the proposed Cyber-Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act (CISPA) will have the same effect that similar movements had earlier this year in helping kill other proposed federal Internet security measures. However, the challenge will be a little different this time around, particularly since some major tech […]