Citrix client lays open security hole
The U.S. Department of Homeland Security has warned of an easily exploitable security bug in Citrix’s Presentation Server Client that could leave users open to attack by malicious Web sites.
Verizon Business goes phishing with new service
Verizon Business this week expanded its managed security services with an offering designed to safeguard corporate information from phishing, spyware, malware and viruses.
IBM, Cisco expand unified communications partnershipIBM and Cisco Wednesday announced a unified communications partnership and promised to deliver integration among their products including real-time clients and back-end servers, as well as an open-client framework for developers.Gates calls for new privacy law
Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates asked the U.S. Congress to pass a comprehensive privacy law this year, allowing consumers to control how their personal information is used.
Shell bets big on Microsoft for global VoIP plans
Oil giant Royal Dutch Shell is planning a global VoIP rollout with tens of thousands of IP phones that will ultimately run off of a mostly Microsoft-based server platform.
VoiceCon: Microsoft to offer first public beta of Office VoIP products
Microsoft Wednesday will unveil the first public beta of its Office Communications Server and Office Communicator client, the heart of its unified communications strategy.
BeyondTrust releases alternative to Vista’s access control
As Microsoft’s User Account Control begins to trickle onto corporate desktops, management vendor BeyondTrust is offering an alternative designed to ensure that users get privileges only when they need them in order to execute applications and other tasks.
AT&T adding a third more Wi-Fi hot spotsAT&T announced Wednesday that it has added 13,000 Wi-Fi hot spots to its pool of available access points around the world for its Remote Access customers. It also has upgraded the software client used by these same customers.Study: World needs more data storage space
The world is running out of storage space for the data it has to hold according to a new report from IDC.
Podcast: Network World 360VoIP vendors pushing mobility, interoperability; Massachusetts man accused of million-dollar warranty fraud against Cisco; and is the IEEE standards process broken? (9:17)Buzzblog: Mob rule overruns Reddit
This morning 14 of its 15 top stories are about “impeachment,” demonstrating the problem with “meritocracy” social-bookmarking sites: Sometimes the wisdom of crowds turns into an unruly mob.
Today on Layer 8, where $6-per-gallon gas would really crimp our style:The top executives from GM, Ford, Toyota and Chrysler will be going before Congress next week to talk about why they can’t make American cars more fuel-efficient. What they say in many cases will be so much hot air.From Cisco Subnet: Man accused of defrauding Cisco out of $10 million
In the second arrest made in less than a week involving Cisco scams, a New Jersey computer technician was arrested Friday on charges of defrauding Cisco of more than $10 million, reports the Associated Press.
