Networks

WordPress Sites Take Brute Force Battering

WordPress says security firms are hyping tales of attacks

12 years ago

Bitcoin Rocked By Java Exploit-Wielding Thieves And New DDoS Strike

Cyber crooks are getting awfully fond of Bitcoin

12 years ago

Video: Experts Weigh In On ‘Weightless’ – Part III

Third part in TechWeekEurope’s video series evaluates the possibility of 25 billion devices communicating through the Weightless standard

12 years ago

Google Fibre To Arrive In Austin, Texas

The capital of Texas is next in line to get gigabit broadband from Google

12 years ago

BT Fibre Reaches 15 Million UK Premises

BT fibre is now available in more than half of UK premises with up to 200,000 added each week

12 years ago

Illegal Botnet Bitcoin Mining Boom ‘Incoming’

Security researcher warns of growth in illegal mining following discovery of Skype Trojan

12 years ago

IBM Compresses 100Gbps Network Onto A CMOS Chip

Tech could be used to convert analogue signals from the Big Bang into digital data

12 years ago

IEEE Ethernet Study Group To Discuss 400Gbps Standard

IEEE to discuss if new standard can deal with growing network traffic

12 years ago

Quiz of the Week: Bitcoin Bonanza

Bitcoins are getting a lot of attention right now - see how much you know with our quiz!

12 years ago

Juniper Targets SDN And BYOD With New Switch

Juniper is readying a new switch and software to help organisations deal with the BYOD and SDN trends

12 years ago

Mt.Gox Bitcoin Exchange Hit By ‘Major DDoS Attack’

World's largest Bitcoin exchange says it is under the biggest DDoS attack it has ever seen

12 years ago

Skype Users Hit 2 Billion Minutes A Day Milestone

Microsoft has revealed that Skype users consume 2 billion minutes each day on its popular VoIP service

12 years ago

FBI Warns Of DoS Attacks On Emergency Telephones

US authorities are warning about Telephone Denial of Service attacks against emergency telephone systems

12 years ago

Ubiquisys Acqusition Strengthens Cisco Small Cell Offering

Swindon-based Ubiquisys is to be bought in £205m deal

12 years ago

Cumbria Broadband Delayed Again By European Red Tape

The superfast broadband rollout in Cumbria is facing yet more delays, blamed on red tape from Brussels

12 years ago

‘Critical’ BIND Vulnerability Puts DNS Servers At Risk

A flaw reported in the handling of regular expressions means most DNS servers running on Linux or Unix are vulnerable…

12 years ago

US Concerns Over Huawei, ZTE Complicate Sprint Merger

A $20.1bn deal between the US' Sprint and Japan's Softbank is facing complications due to the US government's mistrust of…

12 years ago

Egypt Makes Arrests After Undersea Internet Cable Hacked Apart

Police claim three scuba divers were caught attempting to cut an undersea connection

12 years ago

EE Expands 4G Network, Reaches Half Of UK Population

Bradford, Leicester, Luton, Doncaster, St Albans, Reading and other towns join the EE 4G service

12 years ago

Hollow Fibres Carry Data Faster

Hollow-core fibres nearly hit the speed of light in a vacuum, cutting latency

12 years ago

Millions Of Open Servers Are Helping To Set Off Huge Digital Bombs

Spamhaus attacks show how the Internet's millions of open DNS resolvers are 'the scourge of the Internet'

12 years ago

BT Reaches Kensington And Chelsea Broadband Peace Agreement

Royal borough of Kensington and Chelsea withdraws street cabinet objections

12 years ago

BT Wins BDUK Funds In Shropshire Broadband Deal

Shropshire broadband deal will bring fibre to 93 percent of one of the most rural counties in England

12 years ago

European Commission Looks To ‘Burn’ Red Tape For Fibre Broadband Rollouts

Proposed EC regulations unveiled by the EC would make new properties broadband-ready

12 years ago

Big Switch’s Switch Light Aims To Drive OpenFlow Adoption

Big Switch's open source switching platform is aimed at making it easier for businesses to adopt software-defined networking using switches…

12 years ago

BT Signs £146m Scottish Highlands And Islands Broadband Deal

BT says deal is the most complex and challenging it has undertaken

12 years ago

Hyperoptic Doubles Fibre Broadband Connections

Broadband start-up Hyperoptic has now connected 20,000 London locations to its 1 Gbit/s fibre-to-the-premises service

12 years ago

Cisco Buys SolveDirect For Cloud Infrastructure Expertise

Cisco's acquisition of Austrian firm SolveDirect is designed to help build the company's enterprise IT portfolio, and also follows a…

12 years ago

Oracle Acquires Networking Specialist Tekelec

Oracle has followed its Nimbula buy with the acquisition of Tekelec, which makes software that keeps data flowing efficiently over…

12 years ago