Jeff Burt

The Duqu worm, the close cousin to the Stuxnet worm that was first discovered in September 2011, is back in the wild with some new coding that Symantec security officials say indicates the attackers behind the Trojan horse program are still at work. That discovery comes just as researchers from Kaspersky Lab and elsewhere said […]

Cyber-criminals, increasingly stymied by better security around traditional threats like spam and exploit codes, are changing gears and focusing more of their efforts in such areas as mobile devices, social networks and cloud computing, according to a report by IBM. In Big Blue€™s “X-Force 2011 Trend and Risk Report,” released March 22, IBM found significant […]

Nvidia is launching the first graphics chips based on the company€™s new Kepler architecture, the next-generation offering after the company€™s successful Fermi, which hit the market two years ago. Nvidia officials, who announced the new GPUs March 22, touted the Kepler technology€™s power efficiency and gaming performance. The first Kepler GPUs€”the GeForce GTX 680 and […]

Cisco Systems is virtualizing its Video Surveillance software, integrating it into the networking vendor€™s Unified Computing System to offer businesses a more scalable and flexible offering. The move, announced March 21, comes several months after Cisco officials in September 2011 laid out the company€™s strategy around physical security technology. The larger initiative includes a focus […]

Broadcom is buying BroadLight in a move designed to enhance its broadband access portfolio by adding BroadLight€™s passive optical network (PON) processors. In the deal, announced March 21, Broadcom officials said they will pay $195 million in cash for the 12-year-old BroadLight, and could pay an additional $10 million if certain performance goals are met. […]

Blue Jeans Network is offering a cloud-based video conference bridging solution that is designed to enable easy interoperability between systems from the likes of Cisco Systems, Polycom, LifeSize Communications and Skype and eliminate the need for costly multipoint control units (MCUs). The networking company on March 21 announced new pricing plans that enable businesses to […]

Advanced Micro Devices is rolling out a low-cost, low-power Opteron chip aimed at Web hosting and cloud computing environments. The Opteron 3200 family, which is being shown this week at the World Hosting Day event in Germany, is AMD€™s latest effort to gain greater traction in the booming hosting and cloud markets, where businesses are […]

Given the increasingly ubiquitous and open nature of Google€™s Android, there€™s little mystery as to why cyber-attackers are targeting more of their malware efforts at the mobile operating system, according to Don DeBolt, director of threat research at security software maker Total Defense. €œMalware goes to where the numbers are,€ DeBolt said in an interview […]

Symantec is buying mobile app management vendor Nukona to bolster its capabilities to offer businesses the technology they need to deal with the proliferation of personal mobile devices that employees are using to access corporate networks and data. The Nukona deal, coupled with its acquisition earlier this month of Odyssey Software, which makes mobile device […]

Cisco Systems is giving network administrators new tools to handle the flood of personal mobile devices that employees are using to access corporate networks and data. Cisco officials said that the new offerings, announced March 20, are designed to create a comprehensive approach to the growing trend of bring your own device (BYOD), which the […]

Skyrocketing Internet traffic will fuel demand for switches and routers in service providers’ networks, according to new numbers from market research firm Ovum. In a report released March 19, revenues in the global service provider switching and routing market will jump from $13.3 billion in 2010 to $20.5 billion by 2017, thanks in large part […]

Cisco Systems reportedly is considering funding a startup run by Cisco engineers that would focus on the growing trend within data centers of software-defined networking. According to a story in The New York Times, the startup€”which would be called Insiemi€”would develop a switch that essentially would take many of the networking tasks that now are […]