Jim Wagner

Latis Networks, a company known more for its wireline network security applications, is taking its wired mentality into the Wi-Fi realm with the release of its StillSecure Border Guard Wireless application Monday. What makes his product more effective than intrusion detection systems (IDS), said Rajat Bhargava, Latis Networks president and chief executive officer, is the […]

Executives at Key3Media, an IT trade show and conference producer, announced Thursday evening it would restructure its operations after next week’s Comdex exhibition ends, and indicated Chapter 11 bankruptcy as one of the options. While officials were not available at press time, the company’s third quarter results included a reason for the decision to restructure: […]

The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) approved the merger of Comcast and AT&T Broadband Wednesday afternoon in a 3-1 vote. The other federal agency overseeing the merger, the Department of Justice, has already signaled its approval of the deal by not filing an objection, leaving the local franchise operators as the only groups who could effectively […]

Wireless equipment manufacturer QUALCOMM is making a case for its brand of 3G communications in two Asian countries, and is reportedly in talks with officials to forgo a de facto European standard. According to a Reuters report published Wednesday, the manufacturer’s executives are in talks with officials in Taiwan and Hong Kong to buy up […]

The latest version of the most popular Web browser alternative to Microsoft’s Internet Explorer (IE) and Netscape, Opera 7 Beta 1 for Windows, is available for download, giving users the chance to view dynamically-created Web pages and developers an easier time creating Web pages around the application. For the first time, Opera supports a host […]

CHICAGO — The onus is on regulators and legislators to make software and the Internet something U.S. consumers want to use; in some areas, according to one academic, they are falling short. Gene Spafford, director of Purdue University’s Center for Education and Research in Information Assurance and Security (CERIAS), told an audience of IT security […]

CHICAGO — To anyone outside the manufacturing company Avery Dennison, the theft of research and development techniques used to make the adhesive found in diaper tags and double-sided tape wouldn’t classify as a state secret. But the case study in corporate espionage underscores the importance of keeping proprietary knowledge, be it an IT company’s database […]

CHICAGO — The Catholic Health System (CHS) is a New York-based health care organization comprised of four hospitals and scores of diagnostic centers throughout the state. With such far-flung offices and remote workers, getting all of them working on the same network can be a time-consuming and expensive proposition. Doug Torre, the director of networking […]

IT managers and technicians will gather at the Computer Security Institute’s (CSI) 29th annual conference and exhibition next week, to see the latest wares in the market and convince executives security is more important than a bottom-line consideration. The conference runs Monday through Wednesday, with more than 150 security vendors pitching and demonstrating the latest […]

Intrusion detection system (IDS) developers ForeScout will announce and demonstrate a corporate version of its early-warning software ActiveScout application at the Computer Security Institute (CSI) exhibition Tuesday in Chicago. The ActiveScout Enterprise edition has been tested to allow up to 50 access points (APs) in a network using the ActiveScout Site Solution to exchange information […]

IBM took the lead again in disk drive capacity Wednesday with the announcement of its Travelstar GN hard disk drives (HDD) for laptop and notebooks, capable of storing 70 gigabits of information per square inch. The news comes at a time when Big Blue is getting ready to shed its division in a joint venture […]

A remote management flaw, published by a security firm recently, affects older versions of the Linksys EtherFast Cable/DSL Router and could extend to the company’s entire home networking product line. While a PC user on the home network could access the vulnerability, the biggest threat comes from attackers who break into the router using a […]