Cisco and VMware this week expanded its 4 + years of association with the presentation of network virtualization extensions designed to extend the range of movement of virtual machines across multiple data centers and cloud environments.
At VMworld 2011, the company also announced improvements in desktop virtualization and cloud infrastructure products designed to increase scalability, security and performance.
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The U.S. Justice Department Wednesday moved to block the proposed $ 39 billion merger between AT&T and T-Mobile.
In a civil suit in competition at the U.S. District Court District of Columbia today, the Justice Department argued that the proposed merger would harm competition in the wireless industry, especially since T-Mobile has historically offered low-cost wireless voice and data customers. The Justice Department also argued that any efficiency gained by combining AT&T and T-Mobile spectrum would not be enough to offset the damage done to U.S. consumers for further consolidation in the wireless industry.
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SAN DIEGO (TheStreet) – Dan Fitzpatrick at RealMoney.com, talks about three stocks seen on CNBC’s “Fast Money” and “Mad Money” and gives his thoughts on how investors can use those ideas to grow their money. Today’s stocks include : International Paper (IP), Starbucks(SBUX),and Cisco(CSCO),
On Thursday, Jim Cramer spoke to the CEO of International Paper about the company’s attempted acquisition of Temple Island. Fitzpatrick recommends buying the stock if International Paper hits the 200-day moving average. Fitzpatrick believes Temple Island is a safe bet as IP remains committed to the takeover.
The traders on “Fast Money,” looked at Starbucks, which announced earnings Thursday after the market closed. They said to sell. Starbucks traded with high volume Thursday. Fitzpatrick said he thinks Starbucks is going to drop a few dollars, to the 50-day moving average and recommends either selling or staying out of Starbucks.
The last stock Fitzpatrick looks at is Cisco – a company featured on “Fast Money”. Fitzpatrick said, based on the daily chart, the stock appears to be forming a nice base. But on the weekly chart, he said he sees a series of lower highs and lows.
Time Warner said that in the last week has patched the problem until the manufacturer can offer a permanent solution, but before they were allowed administrative access to routers. Attackers could execute a variety of programs against these routers, said David Chen in his blog Chenosaurus.
Due to the vulnerability that anyone in any part of the Internet to take control of the router, could launch attacks from within Time Warner customers homes.
“From within your own network, an attacker can intercept sensitive data from being sent over the Internet and what is worse, you can manipulate the DNS to point to trusted sites to malicious servers to carry out attacks” man-in -the-middle “writes Chen. “Someone skilled enough, possibly, can even customize and install a new firmware in the router, which can automatically scan and infect other routers automatically.”
Chen says he discovered that the administrative control of the routers had been blocked by a Java script. He Java disabled on the router to his friend and had access to all settings of the router. He opened the configuration file backup and found the user name and administrative password in plain text.
He says he was able to run a port scan IP addresses of Time Warner and found dozens of these routers that were open to attack. The router in question is the SMC 8014 wireless router and cable modem, said Alex Dudley, vice president of public relations for Time Warner. He says his company is waiting for a permanent solution of SMC that Time Warner will run quality control tests before pushing the affected routers.
Chen also notes that the router only allows encryption of Wired Equivalent Privacy, which he breaks down easily, allowing anyone who can break WEP network access. He also said that the fixed format of the routers SSID ‘to discover that the Wi-Fi are provided by SMC 8014s.
SINGAPORE – To mark the country’s first Awareness Day on Cybersecurity, local government, industry and the online community have come together to renew their commitment to cultivate a secure Web environment.
Held here today with the Seminar of Information Security, the event is sponsored by the Cyber Security Awareness Alliance, established in April 2008 to increase online awareness and push for greater accountability of users, such the adoption of stronger passwords. The group led by the government with industry bodies, government agencies and market players, such as the Land Transport Authority, Infocomm Development Authority of Singapore Police, Hewlett-Packard, Juniper Networks, McAfee, Microsoft, Symantec and Trend Micro.
Driving the maxim “Go online safely,” said the alliance has received more than 300. 000 items, through its portal of awareness, members of the online community, public and private sectors to commemorate the Day of Awareness for changing your password to improve security.