Tag: CISCO

If you've received any suspicious-looking e-mails from LinkedIn recently, you may have been targeted by the latest Trojan attack to hit inboxes. The malicious e-mails, which targeted billions of Windows users yesterday, seemed like normal LinkedIn invitations from random contacts. And, like most LinkedIn invites, the messages asked users to click a link to confirm the request. Instead of sending ...

Share In a security report, Cisco claims that employees are breaking company policies by playing social networking games, and, by doing so, could be opening up networks to outside attacks. Cisco's 2010 Midyear Report found that 7-percent of those who admitted to using Facebook at work also fessed up to spending an average of 68 minutes each day playing 'FarmVille.' FarmVille isn't the only ...

Highlights from this morning's other big tech headlines.... As part of an ongoing (and often ridiculous) modernization movement, the British Monarchy has created an impressive Flickr account featuring both current and historic snapshots. [From: Reuters and Flickr] The Cellular Telephone Industries Association (CTIA) is attacking San Francisco's "overzealous" cell phone radiation labels ...

Highlights from this morning's other big tech headlines.... A Wikileaks spokesperson has responded to a rumor that the site may soon close its proverbial doors, saying in a typically tactful fashion that "the "bull#### campaign" will soon be addressed because, "[there] is no substance to the allegation." [From: The Next Web] The lawsuit concerning Apple and AT&T exclusivity has just ...

We promised ourselves some time ago that we were going to stop covering every celebrity and politician who signs up for Twitter. Let's be honest; it's not news anymore. In fact, it would be bigger news if a celebrity announced a vehement opposition to Twitter and vowed that they would rather spend an eternity watching Black Eyed Peas' videos than subject themselves to even a moment of ...

Highlights from this morning's other big tech headlines.... Reception to AT&T's new data plans, and the elimination of an unlimited option, has so far been mixed, but some ornery subscribers have, of course, expressed dismay and anger. Steve Jobs admirably responded to an e-mail from one unhappy customer, succinctly replying, "I think it's going to work out just fine for almost all ...

Highlights from this morning's other big tech headlines.... Despite promising prospects, music streaming site Lala failed to carve a successful niche in its highly competitive market. Apple recently absorbed the struggling site and will officially, and permanently, close Lala's doors May 31st. The news isn't all bad, though, as subscribers will be still able to listen to tunes until that ...

Highlights from this morning's other big tech headlines.... Despite having appeared in only one movie since 2007 (and a TV one at that), Lindsay Lohan apparently believes that her first name carries similar star power to those of Oprah, Cher, and Madonna. LiLo is suing E-Trade for the ridiculous sum of $100 million because of a commercial that featured a "milkaholic" baby named Lindsay. ...

digg_url ='http://www.switched.com/2009/12/09/nigeria-dethroned-brazil-reigns-as-worlds-spam-capital/'; Brazil. The name alone evokes images of balmy beaches, bronzed bodies, or Bossa ballads. But beneath the veneer of this plastic surgery tropical paradise lurks an ugly, viral underbelly that's infecting the entire world. No, not that weird rash you noticed after Spring Break in Rio. We're ...

Netizens, when will you learn to be more careful about what you post online? We've published enough stories about Facebook and other social networking sites costing people jobs and relationships -- why would you be so careless with Twitter? A Twitter user known as 'theconnor' -- who's clearly about as sharp as a bowling ball -- posted a message that read, "Cisco just offered me a job! Now I have ...

Cisco unveiled at CES a system of routers, players and a central media hub that sucks all your digital content into one place, and then lets you spit it out anywhere over your home network -- or even the Internet. Unlike other streaming media systems such as Sonos, Cisco's Linksys-branded products use a massive, centralized storage device (called the Media Hub) to store content, and because the ...

The U.S. Military may have been using a whole slew of counterfeit computer chips in its systems, leaving it open to security breaches that could lead to information leaks or worse, according to the FBI. During a two-year period, Operation Cisco Raider has lead to 15 criminal cases in which counterfeit products were bought and used by military agencies, military contractors and electric power ...

Nearly all Internet traffic is run through cables and wires strung across poles, buried underground, or floating in the sea. This is just fine most of the time, but when you're hoping to send critical data through the Internet and you're a long way from the nearest Starbucks, say, or on some remote island, your options are fairly slim. That could some day change, thanks to a new project funded ...