Networks

Home Tech Vulnerabilities Could Be Used To Set Houses On Fire

Even the US government is warning about weaknesses in Belkin WeMo Home Automation kit

11 years ago

Microsoft Readies Lync App For Android Tablets

Redmond preps its enterprise communication platform to include Android tablets, as well as Skype video callers

11 years ago

BBM 2.0 Adds Free Voice Calls And Dropbox Integration To iPhone And Android

BBM brings Voice and Channels to iOS And Android and a number of new features to all platforms

11 years ago

Bots Make Up Majority Of Website Traffic

A study from Incapsula claims that over 60 percent of all website traffic is not actually from humans, but rather…

11 years ago

Will Vodafone Spending Spree Buy It A UK Fixed Network?

Vodafone CEO Vittorio Colao has a £24 billion warchest for acquisitions, but will it move into fixed line services in…

11 years ago

Cisco Profit Plummets As Weak Demand Bites

Cisco predicts more pain ahead but is optimistic about its direction, despite slides in both profit and revenue

11 years ago

Big Switch CEO Touts New SDN Strategy

The boss of Big Switch explains how a strategic change gives it an edge in the competitive SDN space

11 years ago

EU Wants A Deadline For ‘Globalisation’ Of ICANN

European Commissioner Neelie Kroes says it’s time to change the way the Internet is governed

11 years ago

Bitcoin Battered By DoS Attacks

Attackers take advantage of a weakness in the cryptocurrency protocol known as “transaction malleability” and a number of exchanges suspend…

11 years ago

Aruba Bolsters Outdoor 802.11ac Wi-Fi Connectivity

A new enterprise-grade access point that is also easy to install expands Aruba's outdoor Wi-Fi portfolio

11 years ago

CloudFlare: Biggest DDoS Ever Hits Europe

DDoS weighing in at nearly 400Gbps targets unnamed CloudFlare customer in Europe, as attackers use NTP to amplify attack

11 years ago

Vodafone Bids £5.8bn For Spanish Cable Company Ono – Report

Vodafone reportedly looks to boost European fixed line network with another acquisition

11 years ago

Snowden Used Basic Web Scraping Tools In NSA Breach

Use of basic web crawlers leads to concern over the quality of the intelligence agency's security

11 years ago

BT Denies Copper ADSL Switch Off Will Be ‘Catastrophic’ For Businesses

BT says businesses have had plenty of time to upgrade to faster services

11 years ago

Target Hackers Snuck In Through Ventilation Vendor

Epic breach in part down to credentials stolen from Fazio Mechanical Services

11 years ago

Mobile Data Usage To Increase 11-Fold By 2018 – Cisco

Report from Cisco also predicts that 4G networks will carry 51 percent of mobile data traffic by 2018

11 years ago

Snowden Leak: GCHQ Targeted Anonymous With DoS Attacks

GCHQ attacked Anonymous with DoS attacks, knocking IRC chat rooms offline, whilst scaring members away by sending warning messages

11 years ago

Extreme Networks’ Purview Turns Net Management Into Big Data

Data capture from networks could drive business decisions, says Extreme Networks

11 years ago

First BDUK Fibre Cabinets Go Live In Warwickshire And Northamptonshire

Two BDUK projects reveal the locations of the first government-funded fibre cabinets

11 years ago

Syrian Electronic Army Hits eBay And PayPal

Hacking crew appears to carry out hit on DNS infrastructure serving eBay-owned sites

11 years ago

70,000 Properties In Devon And Somerset To Receive BDUK Fibre By Summer

BDUK rollout in the West Country to reach more homes and businesses even quicker

11 years ago

Government Tweaks ‘Porn Filters’ To Prevent Over-Blocking

A ‘whitelist’ should reduce the numbers of legitimate websites blocked by ISPs

11 years ago

Fibre Demand Boosts BT Results In Record Quarter For Openreach

BT says fibre and sports TV investments are coming good

11 years ago

IBM Seeks Buyers For SDN Business – Report

IBM is reportedly seeking to divest itself of its SDN unit and has approached several networking vendors

11 years ago

Cisco Touts ‘Fog Computing’ With New IOx Platform

Cisco's new IOx platform includes a Linux OS to push software to network edge for IoT

11 years ago

Government-Funded Superfast Broadband Rollout Reaches 300,000 Premises

DCMS says rollout is now likely to have reached more than 300,000 homes and businesses

11 years ago

Cross-Platform Java Malware Used In DDoS Attacks

Kaspersky finds malware targeting unnamed bulk email service

11 years ago

Scotland To Get Its Own ‘.scot’ Top-Level Domain Name

the new ‘.scot’ ccTLD will be available this summer

11 years ago

Ofcom: Mobile, Broadband, Landline Services Cheaper Than Ten Years Ago

Ofcom says consumers are getting more for less thanks to strong competition

11 years ago

BT To Invest Another £50m In Urban Fibre Rollout

BT to connect 400,000 more homes and businesses across 30 cities to its fibre network

11 years ago