The network at one of the biggest annual networking shows is being subject to a series of distributed denial of service attacks (DDoS) creating the equivalent of 90 million sessions attempting to use the network at the same time, all as part of a controlled test of the Interop network.
Brandon Butler | 08 May | Read more
When smartphone users upload files to cloud-based services, remnants of those files often remain on their handheld device, even if the data is meant to be stored only in the cloud, researchers have found.
Brandon Butler | 26 Mar | Read more
LinkedIn, the professional social media network, is suffering intermittent service disruptions Wednesday morning.
Brandon Butler | 20 Mar | Read more
Last year after an outpouring of opposition, Internet advocates logged a victory when they defeated the controversial Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA).
Brandon Butler | 12 Mar | Read more
In what is becoming as much a tradition as the Super Bowl itself, federal law enforcement officials, in conjunction with the NFL, said today they snatched up $13.6 million in fake merchandise shuttered 313 websites as part of a third-annual sting against NFL-related counterfeit items dubbed Operation Red Zone.
Brandon Butler | 31 Jan | Read more
Security vendor Verdasys says it's ready to bring data loss prevention (DLP) to the cloud.
Brandon Butler | 29 Jan | Read more
You've heard such stories. Mat Honan, a reporter for Wired magazine had almost his entire digital life erased when a fraudster used social media account information to trick Apple and Google into allowing him access to Honan's account information.
Brandon Butler | 09 Jan | Read more
Facebook today announced a trial that could let paid advertisers directly message users' in-boxes, which have traditionally been held for messages from friends.
Brandon Butler | 20 Dec | Read more
VMware has issued a patch for its VMware View product that fixes a security vulnerability that could allow an unauthorized user to access system files.
Brandon Butler | 20 Dec | Read more
Amazon Web Services today launched Data Pipeline, a new tool designed to make it easier for users to integrate data stored in multiple disparate spots to manage and analyze it.
Brandon Butler | 30 Nov | Read more
To help ease the concerns of cloud security, which Gartner says is still a chief inhibitor to enterprise public cloud adoption, buyers are looking to contracts and service-level agreements to mitigate their risks.
Brandon Butler | 14 Nov | Read more
Security remains a chief inhibitor to enterprise adoption of Cloud computing resources and one Gartner analyst says the biggest concern should not be that data could be compromised in the cloud, but rather that there may be a Cloud outage that could lead to data loss.
Brandon Butler | 14 Nov | Read more
The cloud market can be a big, daunting place. Seemingly every tech vendor has a cloud strategy, with new products and services dubbed "cloud" coming out every week. But who are the real market leaders? Research firm Gartner's answer lies in its Magic Quadrant report for the infrastructure as a service (IaaS) market.
Brandon Butler | 07 Nov | Read more
Almost two hours before Amazon Web Services publicly acknowledged an outage that brought down websites such as Reddit, Imgur and Heroku, application monitoring startup Boundary claims it started noticing the problem.
Brandon Butler | 26 Oct | Read more
Mat Honan, a reporter with Wired magazine, thought almost his entire digital life had been lost, but a team of recovery engineers were able to restore most of it by diving deep into his compromised laptop. Here's how they did it.
Brandon Butler | 22 Aug | Read more