15.09.2015 Cisco router break-ins bypass cyber defenses Security researchers say they have uncovered clandestine attacks across three continents on the routers that direct traffic around the Internet, potentially allowing suspected cyberspies to harvest vast amounts of data while going undetected.

03.02.2011 River of IPv4 addresses officially runs dry In a ceremony in Miami this morning, the final five blocks of IPv4 addresses were given out to the five Regional Internet Registries that further distribute IP addresses to the far corners of the planet. The five RIRs still have tens of millions of addresses as working inventory, but once those addresses are given out, it's over.

27.05.2010 Are you ready for the big internet crunch? The internet as we know it is reaching its limits.  Within 18 months it is estimated that the number of new devices able to connect to the world wide web will plummet as we run out of "IP addresses" -- the unique codes that provide access to the internet for everything from PCs to smart phones.

01.10.2009 Cisco to Buy Tandberg to Gain Video Equipment Cisco Systems Inc., the world’s largest maker of networking equipment, agreed to buy Tandberg ASA for 17.2 billion kroner ($2.97 billion), to expand its lineup of video-conferencing products.

12.08.2009 Judge bans Microsoft from selling Word No, you don't have to get your eyes checked. You read the headline correctly: A Texas judge has banned Microsoft from selling Word in the United States. And now, in the worst-case scenario, Microsoft may have to pull Word off the shelves by October. The chances of that actually happening are very small. Still, this makes for some interesting drama.

16.01.2009 Conficker worm spikes, infects 1.1 million PCs in <24 hours It has been over a month since we heard much about Conficker, but the worm has reappeared with a vengeance over the past seven days. According to Finnish security company F-Secure, more than one million PCs have been infected with the worm (also known as Kido or Downadup) in the past 24 hours, with a total of 3.52 million machines infected worldwide. According to F-Secure, that 3.52 million is a conservative estimate.

12.11.2008 Host of Internet Spam Groups Is Cut Off The volume of junk e-mail sent worldwide dropped drastically today after a Web hosting firm identified by the computer security community as a major host of organizations allegedy engaged in spam activity was taken offline, according to security firms that monitor spam distribution online.

08.10.2008 Windows XP Gets Reprieve, Yet Again With Vista struggling, Microsoft has extended the period in which it will make XP available for PC makers' downgrade programs. Microsoft originally planned to stop distributing Windows XP media to large OEMs on Jan. 31, 2009, but this week said it would move the deadline to July 31 of next year.

09.06.2008 IBM Computer Breaks Petaflop Processing Barrier A supercomputer developed by International Business Machines Corp. (IBM) and scientists at Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico has become the first so-called petaflop computer, processing more than one thousand trillion calculations per second.

31.01.2008 The LAN turns 30, but will it reach 40? LAN technology has been around for 30 years, some of them tumultuous. But while the LAN seems ubiquitous now, there are those who think its future may be more troubled than its past. Robert Whiteley, an analyst at Forrester Research Inc. (says) the LAN will become obsolete, through a process he called de-perimeterization. "Firms are finding that they can skip cabling and adopt wireless networks. The next step is to give each machine a direct Internet connection, with appropriate security technology, skipping the LAN," he predicted.

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