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China will submit its wireless LAN security protocol to the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) for consideration as a global standard, years after its rejection by the standards body incensed Chinese backers.

Blackbay Adds 30,000 Users, Increases Successful Global Deployments to over 150 and Handles more than 500 Million Transactions

Hackers have discovered a new way to steal your money: texting it out of your phone.

A Look at the all time greatest controversies in the history of the networking industry.

The call to Bob Bailey, an IT executive with a major US government contractor, came on an otherwise ordinary day in October 2003. "Why are you attacking us?" demanded the caller, an IT leader with a Silicon Valley manufacturer. He wanted to know why Bailey's company had launched a denial-of-service attack against his network

In the first half of 2006, desktop filtering software maker Websense counted a 100 percent rise in Web sites that contained code potentially harmful to visitors. The company declined to reveal how many Web sites it tallied, but it did say that 40 percent of the sites were hacked -- that is, they had their site code altered by outsiders. Of those hacked Web sites, the vast majority (91 percent) were commissioned to install Trojan horses that take control of visiting computers to turn them into bots -- to relay spam, wage denial-of-service attacks or carry out ID theft schemes -- or use them as bases for spreading malicious programs such as worms and keyloggers inside the enterprise.

Wireless LANs have grown in the workplace -- in size, number of installations and technology maturity -- to the point that many IT managers now expect to expand the uses of their networks in a new round of investments within the next year or two.

RSA Security late last year acquired privately held Cyota, which offers online security and anti-fraud services to help financial institutions protect consumer accounts. CEO Art Coviello recently sat down with Ellen Messmer to discuss the Cyota acquisition and RSA's views on the future of authentication. With its anti-fraud services for banks, Cyota is a very different type of business than RSA Security traditionally has been in with its SecurID products for two-factor authentication and the BSAFE encryption toolkits.

Wireless devices are multiplying, making more people more productive . . . and creating enormous management, support and security headaches for CIOs. You need a plan for juggling these new gadgets. Here's the plan.