Opinion

Is Windows 8 really a sitting duck for malware?

A report claims so, but given Microsoft's attempts to harden the OS, that seems dubious.

DEA issues extortion scam warning involving Internet drug buys

IC3 warns of new direct sales scams

Cisco, other router rivals challenged by economy, competition

Q3 shows a dip in revenues as Europe, "fiscal cliff" weigh

U.S. Congressman Issa to hold Reddit AMA on internet regulation bill

Reddit has verified a U.S. Congressman's request for internet users' questions and comments on how Congress should be allowed to manage the internet.

Pay no heed to Facebook status updates concerning copyright ownership

Pay no heed to Facebook status updates concerning copyright ownership

Android Jelly Bean resurrected my HP Touchpad

The tablet that just won’t die gets another life

Did #FoolishParents name a child Hashtag?

It would appear that such is the case, unfortunately

Leaked internal Apple Store video explains how retail outlets can be “tranformational to your life”

Apple opened first retail store in 2001, now has more than 400

Eucalyptus Systems’ Rich Wolski sees a bright future for hybrid cloud

Hybrid cloud will be here for a long time, according to the Eucalyptus co-founder.

The non-Internet that never was but might be

The ITU's WCIT conference is opening soon and all Internet users should pay attention

Yet Another Reason To Think About Disaster Recovery Strategy

Thoughts about DR after Super Storm Sandy

Linux auditing 101

What’s New in Windows 2012

Insiders Comments over 2-1/2 years of Early Adopter Experience

99-cents store: Best Black Friday deals of all?

Improv Everywhere strikes again, foregoing Best Buy, Target and the rest for NYC cheapie store

McAfee wants his guns back, admits poor aim

‘On-the-lam’ software celebrity issues apology to reporter

What do Star Trek and software-defined networking have in common?

How a new startup, which is the most open networking vendor I've seen to date, evokes comparisons between software-defined networking and Star Trek.

Windows XP’s countdown to retirement: T-minus 500 days

Microsoft is putting the 11-year-old operating system out to pasture in another year and a half and it means it. So get moving.

Apple and Samsung extend accused product list in second California lawsuit

Apple and Samsung are both seeking to include even more accused products in their second California patent suit.

Sandia Lab celebrates original “Mr. Clean” the clean room inventor

Sandia National Laboratories physicist Willis Whitfield invented the “clean room” 50 years ago

More people are Facebook friends with exes than current mates

Research out of Scotland also finds Facebook gets more stressful the more online social circles you keep

Company denies being bought by Google

It’s ‘NOT TRUE!!’ insists ICOA boss

Nikon and Samsung create a new camera category by embedding Android

With Android all cameras will point-shoot-post the moment in the movement.

Cyber Monday bust: US law enforcement joins in world-wide seizure of 132 domain names

Project Cyber Monday targets online counterfeiters

What can be done about WAN packet loss and its impact on WAN application performance?

Multiple approaches are possible, and drastically reducing the number of packets that need to traverse the WAN is one good one

U.S. Government Progress on IPv6 Deployment

Monitoring the country's IPv6-enabled government services.

Taking ‘Internet answers’ for granted

There was a time when this wasn’t easy in the least

Genesys moves into mid-market

Working with iptables

Tutorial on Using Windows 8

Finding things and doing things from the new Windows 8 interface.

Wireshark Certified Network Analyst: Taking my Wireshark Knowledge to the ‘Next Level’

Wireshark is hands down, bar-none, my absolute favorite tool for network "forensics," troubleshooting, and learning. I used to think I was fairly good at it. But WOW was I living on the "tip of the iceberg!"