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The Landscape 12.09 update provides Ubuntu administrators with new compliance tools and management controls. Landscape is able to control and manage physical, virtual and cloud deployments. “This is a major upgrade — we are expanding in terms of making the tool chain more enterprise grade for any automation needs that companies might have,” Federico Lucifredi, […]

The modern world of IT security risks is one that is constantly evolving. It’s a reality that Andrzej Kawalec, Global Chief Technology Officer at HP Enterprise Security Services lives and breathes every day. In an interview with eSecurityPlanet Kawalec explained what his group is doing to try and help HP and its clients stay ahead […]

Avaya General Manager Marc Randall has been in the networking business a long time. In that time he’s learned key lessons, one of which he shared from the keynote stage at the Interop 2012 conference in Las Vegas. “You evolve your network or you get beaten up,” Randall said. “It’s easy to say ‘evolve’ but […]

There is a price that comes with simplicity — and when it comes to security, that price is often increased risk. That’s exactly what is now happening with Wi-Fi Protected Setup (WPS), which is intended to be a simple way for consumers to configure security settings on wireless networks at home. Over the holidays, a […]

According to web server stats vendor Netcraft’s January 2012 survey, there are now nearly 583 million sites on the Internet. The January survey figure represents an increase of 27.2 million sites over the December 2011 figures, for a 4.9 percent gain. The biggest winner in terms of web servers appears to be the open source […]

In the physical world of criminal investigation, police investigators aim to build a profile of the criminal in an effort to help catch the guilty party. The same basic idea is now being applied in the cyber world. With WOMBAT, existing data as well as new data was collected and enriched to provide additional information. […]

Storage boxes that deliver content sit at the very heart of the cloud. When it comes to building out your own personal or small business cloud, having enough storage performance is a critical component. That’s where networking vendor NETGEARaims to help, with a new generation of its home and small business network attached storage (NAS) […]

From the ‘Is Killing a Free Service Evil?’ files: Google does a lot of good for developers. At one time or another, I’d bet that many developers have played with a Google API at some point. Developers have also come to rely on Google’s Code Search over the years. It’s a service that I first […]

Though Linux kernels iterate at a rapid rate with new features, the numbering system has not advanced as quickly. Linux 2.x was first released in 1996 and the most recent Linux kernel came from the 2.6.x branch, which debuted in 2003. Now Linus Torvalds, the founder of Linux, has arbitrarily decided that it’s time for […]

Skype first acknowledged that it was having trouble on Thursday, via a note on the Skype website indicating that a small number of users may be having problems signing into the service. At the time, Skype noted that the flaw primarily affected Skype for Windows users. By late afternoon Thursday, Skype issued an update of […]

Enterprises looking for a big firewall now have a new option, thanks to networking vendor Huawei Symantec. Huawei Symantec is a joint venture of Chinese networking giant Huawei and U.S. based security vendor Symantec, that was first established in 2008. The joint ventures new USG 9300 provides 80 Gbps of firewall performance per chassis. Each […]