Network Security, IT, Software Bruce V. Bigelow wrote: When Websense (NASDAQ: WBSN) announced a couple of weeks ago it had acquired Defensio, a Canadian spam filtering Web service, I realized the San Diego software developer had morphed into something bigger and more robust than I remembered. ̶...

Yes, yes. We've talked about this before here. Cisco is introducing a blade chassis that includes compute capabilities (heretofore referred to as a 'blade server.')  It also includes networking, storage and virtualization all wrapped up in a tidy bundle. So while that looks like a blade server (qua...

We seem to have an odd fascination with lists. From top 10 worst/best to lists to make sure to remember to pick up bread and milk on the way home (nb. must pick up milk). At any rate, I stumbled across this story this morning on Network World where Carolyn Duffy Marsan lists off the six worst intern...

Hat tip to Rothman for this. I don't know if Stiennon is off his meds or simply needed to re-post something from 2001 to meet an editorial quota, but his Network World article titled "The Most Important Networking Trend of 2008" ties thus far with the "Evolution of Dance" as my v...

June 24, 2008 Challenge Located in downtown Toronto, Sherbourne Health Centre offers primary healthcare, counseling, support, outreach, health promotion, and education to the diverse communities in its neighbourhood. Offering clinical service since 2003, the centre has worked to bridge healthcare ga...

It's not the destination, it's the journey, stupid. You can't go a day without reading from the peanut gallery that it is "...inevitable that network security will eventually be subsumed into the network fabric."  I'm not picking on Rothman specifically, but he's been banging this dru...

I often comment or blog disagreeing with Matt Asay and his views on open source and security. Frankly from the comments Matt leaves back, I think he views me as a pain in his butt and why if I don't agree with him do I read his blog. I read Matt's blog because I often do agree with him, but I also r...

Hi. Breaking long radio silence (it’s because I’m working on a longer piece about neat research at U of Colo. by Leysia Palen that substantiates my “networked homeland security” approach, and on a white paper for Don Tapscott’s Gov. 2.0 project on my data visualization ...

Translate Does your Database Administrator count Hackers? Arabic Chinese Simplified Chinese Traditional Dutch French German Greek Italian Japanese Korean Portuguese Russian Spanish Database Attacks, Phishing Scam and DNS It takes the average attacker less than 10 seconds to hack in and out of a data...

USA Today reports that the FCC may approve, as early as today, the technical standards for a nationwide system that would send text messages to cellphones and other wireless devices whenever there’s an emergency. The system could be operational by 2010, and could be used for terrorism, weather...