Jeff Burt

Security researchers from Kaspersky Lab, Dell SecureWorks and other places generated a lot of headlines this week with their announcement that they had taken down a new version of the Kelihos peer-to-peer botnet. In a March 28 post on Kaspersky€™s SecureList blog, Stefan Ortloff, a security expert with the company, said that the €œsinkhole€ operation€”designed […]

Cisco The industry is moving into a post-PC world, according to Cisco Systems officials (and others). The networking giant is moving its collaboration portfolio in the same direction. At the show, Cisco said it’s expanding the reach of its Jabber unified communications platform to Apple’s iPad and Windows-based devices. It also introduced a newly designed […]

Cyber-criminals hacked into a credit card processing company and stole information from about 50,000 Visa and MasterCard cardholders, the two companies said March 30. In separate statements, officials with Visa and MasterCard said they were aware of the data breach at the third-party processing company and reiterated that their own systems had not been compromised […]

Dell reportedly is pulling out of the smartphone market in the United States, ending sales of its Venue and Venue Pro smartphones with hopes of focusing on higher-margin mobile devices. The move essentially ends the PC maker€™s two-year dalliance with the highly competitive smartphone market€”at least in the United States€”that started in 2010 when it […]

Yahoo late this year will institute a “Do Not Track” policy across all its Websites, joining such companies as Apple, Microsoft, Google and Mozilla in giving online consumers a tool to limit the amount of personal information that is collected. Yahoo executives March 28 announced that users will be able to access the company€™s Do […]

Research In Motions€™ new CEO, appointed to the post two months ago, is beginning what promises to be a painful restructuring of the struggling BlackBerry maker that he says does not hold any guarantees, and will probably be followed by even more changes. On a conference call March 29 with analysts and journalists, CEO Thorsten […]

Security researchers from Kaspersky Lab, Dell SecureWorks and other organizations have essentially disabled a newer version of the Kelihos botnet, which Kaspersky and others helped shut down in September 2011. The new Kelihos version, first discovered in January, was armed with new features that made it more dangerous than the initial botnet, according to researchers […]

Cisco Systems is bolstering its network management tools for service providers in its bid to buy the software business of ClearAccess. The giant networking vendor announced the acquisition plan March 28, with officials saying that the new products Cisco will inherit will help service providers deal with issues of rapidly growing Internet traffic, increasing network […]

Thrupoint officials are looking to fix what they say is a broken model for unified communications, where there is little interoperability as the major players push to build up their platforms without giving enough thought to how they work with those from other vendors. UC applications from traditional vendors, such as Cisco Systems and Avaya, […]

Apple€™s iPhone and iPad have kicked off a booming business in touch-screen displays that will see shipments of touch controller integrated circuits (ICs) triple from 2010 to 2015, according to market research firm IHS iSuppli. In a report issued March 28, the analyst at IHS iSuppli said that shipments of touch controller ICs will grow […]

The four-digit password on Apple€™s iPhone is no match for Micro Systemation€™s XRY application. The password on the popular smartphone can probably keep a regular person who finds the device from breaking into it. However, the software from the Swedish company, which it sells to law enforcement agencies, can crack the code on an iPhone […]

Avaya officials are pushing a cloud strategy for communications that will let enterprises, service providers and others build and use Avaya-based collaboration solutions in public, private and hybrid clouds. The Avaya Collaborative Cloud framework was a central part of the keynote speech at the Enterprise Connect 2012 show in Orlando, Fla., given March 27 by […]