UC pays off for Fluor, NHL hockey team

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• UC pays off for Fluor, NHL hockey team
• New York A.G. goes after child porn on social networks
• Apple OS X gets IPsec VPN client
• Google Street View Wi-Fi data included passwords and e-mail
• Supreme Court Sides with Employers in Narrow Ruling
• Banking's big dilemma: How to stop cyberheists via customer PCs
• Supreme Court ruling lets employers view worker text messages with reason
• Facebook slammed again over privacy
• Companies launch online fraud alert service
• Security Careers: The Mic is Always On. Always.
• Advocacy Groups Ask Facebook for More Privacy Changes
• iPad hacker arrested on multiple drug charges after FBI search
• No iPhones, just Blackberries for UK government employees
• Security, compliance come before collaboration
• Adobe knocks Apple for serving up outdated Flash Player
• Enterasys looks to head off Cisco, Brocade data center plans
• Cisco forecasts fourfold Internet traffic growth
• Targeting Cisco and Juniper, Brocade unveils unified data center strategy
• Cisco vs. HP in the networking market
• Tellabs shares sink on AT&T switch rumor

UC pays off for Fluor, NHL hockey team Posted: 16 Jun 2010 09:00 AM PDT Fluor Corp. and the Buffalo Sabres weren't looking to implement a unified communications infrastructure, but pressing telecom needs led both in that direction after Fujitsu exited the U.S. PBX business.

New York A.G. goes after child porn on social networks Posted: 18 Jun 2010 09:00 AM PDT New York Attorney General Andrew Cuomo has created a database aimed at keeping child pornography off of social networking sites like Facebook and Myspace.

Apple OS X gets IPsec VPN client Posted: 18 Jun 2010 09:00 AM PDT Mac users are being offered a new and feature-rich alternative to Apple's in-house OS X VPN client, free of charge to individual users.

Google Street View Wi-Fi data included passwords and e-mail Posted: 18 Jun 2010 09:00 AM PDT Wi-Fi traffic intercepted by Google's Street View cars included passwords and e-mail, according to the French National Commission on Computing and Liberty (CNIL).

Supreme Court Sides with Employers in Narrow Ruling Posted: 18 Jun 2010 09:00 AM PDT Six months after agreeing to consider a case regarding employee privacy rights in the workplace, the United States Supreme Court has ruled. Unfortunately for the Ontario police officers involved in the controversial case, and former Detroit mayor Kwame Kilpatrick, the Supreme Court found that employers have a right to employ reasonable monitoring efforts on state-issued devices.

Banking's big dilemma: How to stop cyberheists via customer PCs Posted: 17 Jun 2010 12:00 AM PDT In online banking and payments, customers' PCs have become the Achilles' heel of the financial industry as cyber-crooks remotely take control of the computers to make unauthorized funds transfers, often to faraway places.

Supreme Court ruling lets employers view worker text messages with reason Posted: 16 Jun 2010 05:00 PM PDT The U.S. Supreme Court has ruled that the Ontario, Calif., police department has the right to search through personal text messages sent by employees on city-issued devices.

Facebook slammed again over privacy Posted: 16 Jun 2010 05:00 PM PDT Ten privacy advocate groups penned an open letter to Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg, asking him to make changes to the highly popular social networking site that will give users more control over their own data.

Companies launch online fraud alert service Posted: 16 Jun 2010 05:00 PM PDT Microsoft, eBay and Citizens Bank have launched a new Internet fraud alert service designed to allow them to better share information about compromised accounts with each other in an effort to better fight online fraud.

Security Careers: The Mic is Always On. Always. Posted: 16 Jun 2010 05:00 PM PDT "This is a big BLEEPING deal," remarked Vice President Joe Biden. Apparently he forgot the microphones were on and sensitive enough to capture his remark, intended to be private.

Advocacy Groups Ask Facebook for More Privacy Changes Posted: 16 Jun 2010 05:00 PM PDT Facebook recently made some significant changes to its privacy settings, but ten advocacy groups are want the social network to do more. The groups are asking for six additional privacy changes, ranging from providing a more secure user connection to the Facebook site, to giving you more control over how third-party apps access your data.

iPad hacker arrested on multiple drug charges after FBI search Posted: 16 Jun 2010 05:00 PM PDT One of the hackers in the group that snatched more than 100,000 iPad owner e-mail addresses from AT&T's servers was arrested Tuesday on felony drug charges after the FBI searched his Arkansas home

No iPhones, just Blackberries for UK government employees Posted: 16 Jun 2010 05:00 PM PDT U.K. government ministers are not allowed to use Apple's iPhone but Blackberries are fine, presumably for security reasons, according Health Secretary Simon Burns .

Security, compliance come before collaboration Posted: 15 Jun 2010 05:00 PM PDT Enterprise 2.0 strategies are becoming more popular among companies today, but there are serious logistical and legal challenges along with the expected benefits of using social collaboration tools.

Adobe knocks Apple for serving up outdated Flash Player Posted: 15 Jun 2010 05:00 PM PDT Apple on Tuesday patched 28 vulnerabilities in is Snow Leopard operating system, including two in Adobe's Flash Player.

Enterasys looks to head off Cisco, Brocade data center plans Posted: 13 Jun 2010 05:00 PM PDT Enterasys, the networking division of Siemens Enterprise Communications, this week unveiled it data center strategy, which hinges on partnerships and multivendor inclusion as well as the policy-based management capabilities of its switches.

Cisco forecasts fourfold Internet traffic growth Posted: 10 Jun 2010 05:00 PM PDT Earlier this month, Cisco released the results of its annual "Cisco Visual Networking Index (VNI) Forecast, 2009-2014," which projects that global Internet traffic will increase more than fourfold by 2014. The forecast, which focuses on both consumers and businesses, offers projections are based on Cisco's analysis and modeling of traffic, usage and device data from independent analyst sources. The forecast, inputs and methodology are validated by data provided by service providers globally.

Targeting Cisco and Juniper, Brocade unveils unified data center strategy Posted: 08 Jun 2010 05:00 PM PDT Brocade this week unveiled its converged data center architecture, and a raft of new products to support it.

Cisco vs. HP in the networking market Posted: 08 Jun 2010 05:00 PM PDT In our last newsletter we pointed out that Cisco has been the dominant vendor of enterprise switches and routers for the last 20 years and that that situation is not likely to change anytime soon. We also pointed out that there is some indication that Cisco is vulnerable to losing some market share. We will use this newsletter to discuss how we see HP positioned in the enterprise networking market and whether or not we think that HP will take significant market share away from Cisco.

Tellabs shares sink on AT&T switch rumor Posted: 07 Jun 2010 05:00 PM PDT A research note penned by Morgan Stanley analysts sent shares of telecom equipment provider Tellabs downward today after the analysts wrote that AT&T is planning a shift toward buying cheaper routers from Cisco.

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