Networking

Industrial espionage, Part 4: Risk factors and losses

* Industrial espionage responsible for huge losses, much of which isn’t reported

User groups: Why it matters that your voice is heard

* Readers write in about a telco user group and why you need to speak up

WatchGuard Firebox X Edge gets extra features

* WatchGuard upgrades its small office security box

U.S. still world’s top spammer

Microsoft releases nine patches

* Patches from Microsoft, Mandriva, Gentoo, others * Beware six new Rbot variants * Securing mobile data more important than viruses, and other interesting reading

NetFlash: New WLAN group shakes up standards process

* New WLAN group shakes up standards process * Qwest repeats call for conditions in telecom mergers * Survey says software spending stable * Microsoft and Yahoo to link IM networks * CA CEO: Fixing CA could take three years * Today on Layer 8

Phishing scams harder to pull off, group says

SMC, Agere team on Gigabit Ethernet switch

* SMC’s latest Gigabit Ethernet switch uses Agere chips

Open source Nessus security tool to be commercialized

Microsoft employee blasts ‘fake’ service pack