Some customers were without e-mail Thursday evening. The company has no evidence that personal info was compromised.
A hacker attack on cable company Comcast Corp. late Wednesday brought down the company’s Comcast.net website and its Web-based e-mail service, affecting thousands of people in the Twin Cities and possibly millions nationwide.
The attack by two anonymous hackers about […]

The software is the latest in a recent push by vendors to simplify the increasingly complex IT infrastructure at many companies’ branch offices with a do-it-all piece of hardware.
Citrix (NSDQ: CTXS) and Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT) are joining forces with the co-developed Citrix Branch Repeater, an all-in-one device for delivering applications to branch offices, the companies […]

Cameras and wireless network function as police force multiplier and provide evidence-grade video to aid in criminal prosecution
Dallas police arrested a man accused of mugging an 18-year-old ROTC cadet who had collapsed in a seizure outside the downtown Greyhound bus station last week. The crime was captured on the city’s wireless video surveillance system, which […]

Microsoft (NSDQ:MSFT) on Tuesday used Interop Las Vegas 2008 as a platform to promote its openness and interoperability; two components senior vice president of server and tools business Bob Muglia said are key components in the software giant’s 10-year vision of “Dynamic IT.”
“This idea of interoperability by design is now something we’ve taken very seriously,” […]

At least two decisions were made at Yahoo’s board meeting yesterday, say the NYT’s Andrew Ross Sorkin and Miguel Helft: Yahoo (YHOO) will meet with both Microsft (MSFT) and Time Warner (TWX) next week.
As with much of the information about the Microsoft-Yahoo standoff that has appeared in the press, the board-meeting leaks seem carefully choreographed. […]

Over the past eight years or so, I’ve grown accustomed to using Microsoft Outlook as my e-mail client, calendar, and contact manager. But I ran into a wall after leaving the refuge of a corporate network: I found that I couldn’t rely on Outlook because I regularly use four different computers aHow to network Outlook […]

Although I was familiar with all the concepts and terms regarding the Microsoft Network Access Protection (NAP) and the Cisco NAC technologies, what actually prompted me to take a look at the new Windows Server 2008 Network Policy Server was unrelated to either of those. My interest in the Windows 2008 Network Policy Server (NPS) […]

Here’s a radical plan for making the Internet safe for every legitimate user
In the first column of this year, I discussed computer security outlook and hopes for 2008. I forecast more of the same that we saw in 2007: more spam, more malware, more bad guys basically owning the Internet and our connected computers. I […]

VoIP security solutions provider Sipera Systems has posted their list of what their Sipera VIPER Labs sees as the five top VoIP Security Threats for 2008.
Before I offer this list, two caveats:
First, when a company with technological solutions posts their predictions, it is almost always a tacit declaration on their part that they know what […]

Infected sites feed exploits to visitors–and more sites are affected than first suspected.
A large-scale hack of legitimate Web sites to infect visitors’ PCs is much more massive than first thought, researchers said Friday. At least 10,000 sites have been compromised, and have hijacked unpatched systems that steered to their URLs.
On Monday, Mary Landesman, a senior […]