Security

Q&A: Wi-Fi Alliance exec defends about-face

Two cybercrime textbooks

* Books give in-depth look into cybercrime

F-Secure warns of PayPal man-in-the-middle attack

* Patches from Gentoo, Mandriva, Debian * Beware 'SMiShing' attacks * Study: Many believe data thefts can't be prevented, and other interesting reading

EU/U.S. discord could ground passengers, air chief says

EU's highest court has ruled no 'appropriate legal basis' for deal on data.

Huawei to expand R&D in India

New center in Bangalore to develop optical network, WLANs.

Sales of SSL VPN gear enjoy solid growth

* Juniper sold more SSL VPN gear by revenue in first half of 2006

D.C. deploys wireless net for first responders

Wireless Integrated Network created Web-based interoperability for first responders.

Keyboard madness, part 2

China anoints digital TV broadcast standard

Standards group backs Digital Media Broadcasting Terrestrial), as developed by researchers of Tsinghua University.

Sun releases open source ID mgmt. projects; Identicentric develops single sign-on

* Catching up with recent identity management news