Jeff Burt

Cisco Systems over the past couple of years has seen the competition in the networking space grow rapidly, from the likes of Hewlett-Packard and Juniper Networks to Avaya and Arista Networks. But the competitor that apparently is most on the mind of CEO John Chambers is Huawei Technologies. In an interview with The Wall Street […]

Anonymous hackers reportedly are putting the Chinese and British governments back into their crosshairs. A person claiming to be part of the Anonymous China group that attacked hundreds of Chinese government and commercial sites and defaced many of them last week said the hackers are gearing up for similar efforts in the country in hopes […]

The extent of the threat to Apple Mac users from the Flashback Trojan is coming into clearer focus, with security software vendor Kaspersky Lab confirming previous reports that more than 600,000 systems have been infected, making it among the largest cases involving the Apple systems. The Flashback situation has shaken the notion that Macs were […]

Apple is continuing to fight back against a Trojan that has infected more than 600,000 Mac computers, reportedly issuing a second patch this week. The latest update, issued April 6 and called Java for OS X 2012-002, is substantially the same as the first one issued for the Flashback Trojan, though it appears to apply […]

Microsoft will have a busy Patch Tuesday as it looks to fix six vulnerabilities€”four of them rated “critical”€”in software ranging from Internet Explorer and Office to SQL Server, Windows 7 and the .NET Framework. In a bulletin released April 5, Microsoft officials labeled the other two patches targeted for April 10 as “important,” the second […]

Twitter officials are suing companies they claim are among the largest spamming organizations, echoing strategies by tech vendors Microsoft and Facebook of taking such violators to court. In a blog post April 5, Twitter officials said they were adding the threat of legal action to their growing arsenal of efforts to combat spam. In this […]

Intel and Advanced Micro Devices reportedly are preparing to launch next-generation chips over the next few weeks. Intel initially was expected to roll out its new 22-nanometer €œIvy Bridge€ chips this spring, but earlier this year, executives, citing production problems, said they were delaying the release until June. However, recent reports say that the giant […]

Gartner analysts say the outlook for global IT spending is improving, despite the market research firm saying that it would grow 2.5 percent in 2012, a drop from the 3.7 percent previously forecast. The lower growth rate has more to do with economics€”in particular the continued strengthening of the U.S. dollar versus other currencies€”than an […]

Intel officials, with the first of their much-anticipated “Ivy Bridge” Core chips expected to launch later this month, are kicking off an advertising and marketing campaign designed to raise public awareness about Ultrabooks. The Ultrabook campaign, which was announced April 4, will be the biggest marketing push in almost a decade, when the giant chip […]

Intel Intel remains the largest semiconductor company in the world. In 2011, the company made $12.9 billion on $54 billion in revenues, both records, and its PC Client and Data Center groups both saw revenues grow 17 percent. But what Intel really wants is a big piece of the rapidly growing mobile device pie, and […]

Microsoft, Apple and Sony participated in a law enforcement operation in New York that targeted more than 3,500 accounts on online game platforms owned by registered sex offenders in that state. According to New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman, the accounts were purged from the video game platforms in an effort to protect children from […]

The hacker collaborative Anonymous reportedly is now turning its sights on Chinese government agencies and enterprises, apparently hoping to foment unrest among Chinese citizens. The group, which now apparently has a presence in China, claims to have hacked into and defaced hundreds of national and local government and business Websites, carrying messages decrying what the […]