Wednesday, 13 April 2011

Hacker 'handshake' hole found in common firewalls

Why didn't Cisco attempt to sell the Flip unit? | Berners-Lee: Web access is a 'human right'

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Hacker 'handshake' hole found in common firewalls
Some of the most commonly used firewalls are subject to a hacker exploit that lets an attacker trick a firewall and get into an internal network as a trusted IP connection. Read More


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Why didn't Cisco attempt to sell the Flip unit?
Cisco has two rough quarters, mostly because of execution gaffes in its core switching, routing products, and so the company simply tosses the Flip camera line, and 550 employees, out the door? Flip was never a good fit for Cisco, but the fact that John Chambers didn't attempt to sell the unit speaks as much for his ability to execute through this transition than anything else he's done to date. Read More

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Two decades after creating the World Wide Web, Tim Berners-Lee says humans have become so reliant on it that access to the Web should now be considered a basic right. Read More

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Did Google lie about FISMA? Lie is such an ugly word
It's one of those inside-baseball arguments that will make your head hurt if you spend too much time trying to sort through the details, claims and counterclaims. Trust me, I've spent too much time on it today. Read More

Microsoft quickens browser pace with IE10, goes for annual upgrades
A year after it debuted the first preview for the just-shipped Internet Explorer 9 (IE9), Microsoft on Tuesday kicked off its next browser, IE10. Read More

Cisco Unity Connection features and the buffet
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I don't mean to be flip, Cisco, but...
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