Network World reports on the most significant news for infrastructure and operations professionals.
IT should rethink security in wake of advanced persistent attacks
The demand to monitor Twitter and Facebook follows similar requests for access to other online services
New optical disc aims for consumer market first, then corporate archives
OSX is getting better, but has a way to go, security researchers say
Per-user income greater in cloud, or so Microsoft claims
At Defcon, hackers show how to make cool toys just like the military's
10 gigabytes of law enforcment data is dumped after an online marketing firm used by rural Sheriff's is hacked
Security experts offer advice for how the hacker group can grow up
Beyond having the answers, finance and other leaders benefit from asking the right questions, says Harvard's Rob Kaplan.
A newly fabricated waveguide could prove to be an instrumental component in tomorrow's super-speedy optical networks
Oracle says Motorola has been stonewalling its requests for information about its Android implementation
A week of scary network threats from Black Hat, McAfee's Rat Report and more on RSA data breach
Back and forth continues between router/switch rivals Cisco and Juniper
Sophos says it discussed researcher's work and is making some changes
Urges users to check that the regularly-belittled prompt is really on
The FCC awarded three teams for work that will help users see what they are actually getting in their broadband service
Probe will look under Jupiter's clouds in a search for clues about the birth of the solar system
Analysts are still optimistic about software
HTC said it will incorporate Dashwire's technology into HTC Sense
'Apple Story' exposed by blogger who uncovered elaborate Apple retail copycat in China
Facial recognition tech makes it easier to combine offline, online identities
Not sophisticated, certainly not out of the ordinary, argue McAfee rivals
Phone parts, date debates, two iPhone 5s, and one patent
Alfred-Adekeye was at center of bizarre legal proceedings in Canada
A security company has built a Web-based tool that checks your IP address against the Shady Rat server logs
Attacks such as the ones detailed by McAfee this week in a report are frequent and hard to detect
Early IT support for Apple iPads creates secure access, secure data
Chinese outsourcing companies plan to invest more in providing IT solutions rather than low-cost labor
Prosecutors say he hacked 500,000 accounts to send 27 million messages
Movirtu helps carriers in poor countries offer personal numbers for users of shared phones
Researcher Dillon Beresford has developed code that can take down Siemens industrial systems. But should he release it?
Mars Orbiter spots what appear to be flowing water during the planet's warm season
Java will need modularity and multitenancy to work in the cloud, a Red Hat engineer argues
With 25 million users in less than a month, Google+ is quick out of the gate; analysts not surprised at fast start
Intel executive says disappointing performance
Many IT departments face significant problems with smartphones and other mobile devices, security experts say
Aging XP escapes majority of updates planned for Windows
Google has tried to block the e-mail from being presented at the trial
Where do you start in order to have a successful port of applications into a private/public cloud?
Jobs4America says broadband will help its members create new jobs in the U.S.
VeriFone must sell POS unit to Gores Group private equity firm
Clearwire pursuing capital on multiple fronts
Research reveals vulnerability to a key router protocol, as well as threats to critical infrastructure
Microsoft says Google was asked to jointly bid on hundreds of Nortel patents
VMware doubles virtual RAM allocated to vSphere enterprise licenses
