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- 3Com-Huawei deal 'in trouble' over China connection
- 3Com-Huawei deal 'in trouble' over China connectionAnother test to show US's resistence to monkeyThe question is which matters, the greed of shareholders or the national security?Why can't this be a threat to China's security?Any time there's a deal between a US company and a China company, we always hear loud...
- Tags: Mergers & Acquisitions, Cyberthreats, PRODUCTIVITY, national security, Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd., 3Com Corp.
- Discussion threads 2007-12-03
- 3Com-Huawei deal 'in trouble' over China connection
- A proposed $3 billion cash deal between 3Com, Bain Capital and China's Huawei has been deemed a legitimate threat to U.S. national security, according to a report by Bill Gertz in the Washington Times. "The deal is in trouble," the paper an unnamed official as...
- Tags: U.S., China, Huawei Technologies, 3Com Corp., National Security, Gertz, Mergers & Acquisitions, Intrusion Prevention, Telephony, Investment, Finance, Security, Networking, Ryan Naraine
- Blog posts 2007-12-03
- 3Com: China connection no risk to national security
- As I predicted two weeks ago, the 3Com/Bain Capital/Huawei transation has raised eyebrows in national security quarters. 3Com, which sells networking hardware and software and runs a side business that buys advance access to zero-day vulnerabilities, has voluntarily agreed to subject the $2 billion cash deal to...
- Tags: BainCapital LLC, 3Com Corp., National Security, Sales Strategy, Security, Investment, Sales, Finance, Ryan Naraine
- Blog posts 2007-10-12
- 9th Circuit to decide whether to dismiss NSA spying case against AT&T
- In 2003, Room 641A of a large telecommunications building in downtown San Francisco was filled with powerful data-mining equipment for a "special job" by the National Security Agency, according to a former AT& T technician. It was fed by fiber-optic cables that siphoned copies of e-mails and other online traffic...
- Tags: Internet, San Francisco, AT&T Corp., National Security, ZDNet Government
- Blog posts 2007-08-14
- Congress: P2P networks harm national security
- Congress: P2P networks harm national securityOK...I'll ask the question......Why are government employees within secure facilities or any workplace running Limewire clients? I must have missed something there.And wow....Congress is a fearful place these days. Evildoers?H-1B quota and War on TerrorismLets get real. The greater threat is H-1B contractors...
- Tags: Peer to peer (P2P), Pentagon, network, P2P, Henry Waxman, U.S. Congress, national security
- Discussion threads 2007-07-24
- FBI's data management headaches escalate with Patriot Act
- A Justice Department audit found that the Federal Bureau of Investigation misused the USA Patriot Act to obtain personal information about people. Within that 126 page audit is evidence of the FBIs still is struggling to manage its data. ...
- Tags: General, Government, IT Management, Legal, Software Infrastructure
- Blog posts 2007-03-09
- Judge: Verizon won't appear before state PUC
- The Maine Public Utilities Commission intended to have Verizon appear before it and explain whether it was cooperating with the National Security Administration, but a federal judge Thursday blocked the hearing based on "potential risk" to national security, The Bangor Daily News reports. U.S. District Judge John...
- Tags: Government technology, national security, PUC
- Blog posts 2007-02-09
- Homeland security group to meet away from public eye
- Homeland security group to meet away from public eyeSecurity reasons eh?Well, not really news worthy. Dick Cheney felt that all meetings he has with oil execs and other corporate types are covered under national security "911" special laws. Bush cites security reasons for banning protestors and regulating them...
- Tags: Vertical industries, national security, government, homeland security
- Discussion threads 2006-03-24
- Fuzzy logic behind Bush's cybercrime treaty
- Fuzzy logic behind Bush's cybercrime treatyCriminal DualityGood point. I would have to agree that the FBI should be limited to only help in those instances where the "offense" would also be considered criminal in the FBI's jurisdiction."Intellectual Property"It sounds like this is all for the "Intellectual Property" Industry/Lobby. They...
- Tags: national security, First Amendment
- Discussion threads 2005-11-28
- Google vs national security
- Google vs national securityGoogle v national securityIt would appear that the DHS could benefit from Google's popularity, if all this concern were true.
- Tags: Benefits, national security, Google Inc.
- Discussion threads 2005-10-19
- Didn't they teach the feds how not to have a $170M IT failure?
- Here's a story that slipped past my radar that's enough to make anyone sick, not just IT professionals. The New York Times has a piece regarding the latest report to detail the FBI failures that allowed two of the Sept 11 hijackers to slip through its dragnet. This...
- Tags: national security, information technology
- Blog posts 2005-06-09
Additional Resources
- Automating peer review may do much more
- It's important to note that this is a process which, because of the need for security, and the lack of data format standards, has not been computerized before. Getting it into templates makes many important things possible by Dana Blankenhorn
- Tags: Acesis, XML, Open Source, Software/Web Development, Web Development, Dana Blankenhorn
- Blog posts 2008-11-22
- Why Apple and Google need to get into the Netbook business
- This crappy photo-edit of a fairly standard netbook design illustrates the power of Apple branding. ZDNet Editor in Chief Larry Dignan recently picked up a Dell Inspiron Mini 9 Ubuntu Netbook and pinged me for tech support questions regarding his new toy --...
- Tags: Apple iPhone, Google Inc., Apple iPod, Operating System, Apple Inc., Wireless, Android, Digital Music, Digital Media, Personal Technology, Consumer Electronics, Jason Perlow
- Blog posts 2008-11-22
- Science, research and the politics of grantmanship
- Seems that science is like every other human endeavor. It's highly political. A study done among scientists asking for money from the National Institute of Health shows blunt political caluclation can alter both the language of the grant application...and the actual subject of the study being...
- Tags: Scientist, Strategy, Management, Harry Fuller
- Blog posts 2008-11-21
- Microsoft is 5th most spam-friendly ISP
- Spammers are abusing Microsoft's online services at such an alarming rate that a non-profit spam fighting group now lists Microsoft as the world's 5th most spam-friendly ISP Internet Service Provider. The latest update of Spamhaus.org's list of the world's worst spam networks shows Microsoft at #5 because...
- Tags: Ryan Naraine
- Blog posts 2008-11-21
- Verizon snoops peek at Obama's cell phone records
- Nosy Verizon employees improperly accessed and peeked at Barack Obama's personal cell phone records, the company said in a statement acknowledging the privacy breach. In the statement, Verizon Wireless chief executive Lowell McAdam apologized to the President-elect and vowed that the errant employees will be disciplined. The...
- Tags: Employee, Phone, Verizon Communications Inc., Cell Phone, E-mail, Cellular Phones, Security, Online Communications, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Ryan Naraine
- Blog posts 2008-11-21
- iPhone update kills 12 security bugs
- Apple has released iPhone OS 2.2 with patches for 12 documented security flaws, some very serious. The vulnerabilities covered by the patch which also affect iPod Touch could allow remote code execution, information theft, software crashes and weakened encryption settings. The skinny on this...
- Tags: Apple iPhone, Security, Issue, SMS, Arbitrary Code Execution, Security Bug, Application Termination, Text Messaging/SMS/MMS, Telephony, Cellular Phones, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Online Communications, Networking, Ryan Naraine
- Blog posts 2008-11-21
- Mac OS X targeted by Trojan and backdoor tool
- Two new pieces of malware affecting Mac OS X appeared this week, a Trojan horse and a hacker tool for creating backdoors. Two pieces of malicious software affecting Apple's Mac OS X appeared this week: a Trojan horse with the ability to download and install malicious code of an...
- Tags: Apple Macintosh, Trojan Horse, Tool, Hacker Tool, Intego, OSX.Lamzev.A, Lamzev, Spyware, Apple Mac OS X, Viruses And Worms, Security, Operating Systems, Software, Apple Mac OS, Mac OS X, malware, Trojan, backdoor, hacker, Adware & Malware, Matthew Broersma ZDNet.co.uk
- News items 2008-11-21
- Nielsen Mobile, an Altor Networks Customer
- I recently had the opportunity to speak with Nick Portolese, Senior Manager of Data Center Operations for Nielsen Mobile, an Altor Networks customer. He spent a few moments sharing his experiences with their software. Nick's comments follow. Please tell me who you are and what...
- Tags: Network, Environment, Network Security, Server, Virtual Machine, Tool, VMWare ESX, Nielsen Mobile, Altor Networks, Nielsen, Productivity, Data Centers, Ip storage, Networking, Security, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Dan Kusnetzky
- Blog posts 2008-11-21
- Detroit automakers have little to be thankful for
- But they do have a little time to pull their drumsticks out of the oven. Today the Democrats in Congress gave the U.S. auto industry until December 2nd to come up with a proposal acceptable to Congress and the current White House occupant. You gotta ask...
- Tags: Detroit, U.S. Congress, Merry Chiristmas, Branding, Manufacturing, Government, Leadership, Recruitment & Selection, Marketing, Management, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Harry Fuller
- Blog posts 2008-11-20
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