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    San Francisco's mayor gets back keys to the network 24/07/2008 08:07:06

    San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom met with jailed IT administrator Terry Childs Monday, convincing him to hand over the administrative passwords to the city's multimillion dollar wide area network.
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    Questions abound as San Francisco tries to repair network 23/07/2008 09:08:35

    IT managers and analysts are expressing surprise at the amount of time it appears to be taking officials at the City of San Francisco to regain full control of the city's FiberWAN network after a disgruntled network administrator allegedly locked access to it by resetting administrative passwords to its switches and routers.
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    IT admin locks up San Francisco's network 16/07/2008 09:57:11

    A network administrator has allegedly locked up a multimillion-dollar computer system for the city of San Francisco that handles sensitive data, and he is refusing to give police the password
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    Hacker writes rootkit for Cisco's routers 15/05/2008 07:07:51

    A security researcher has developed malicious rootkit software for Cisco Systems' routers, a development that has placed increasing scrutiny on the routers that carry the majority of the Internet's traffic.
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    Oh, don't tell me: 10 claims that scare security pros 15/08/2007 09:37:58

    A child with a chocolate-smeared shirt says, "I didn't do it." The phone rings, and Mum assures you, "There's nothing to worry about." A systems administrator carrying a box of tapes says, "We'll have everything back up in a few minutes." Sometimes the first words you hear -- despite their distance from the truth -- tell you everything you need to know.
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    Former spammer: 'I know I'm going to hell' 19/07/2007 15:04:00

    "Ed," a retired spammer, built a considerable fortune sending e-mails that promoted pills, porn and casinos. At the peak of his power, Ed says he pulled in US$10,000 to US$15,000 a week, storing the money in US$20 bills in stacks of boxes.
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    Microsoft, EMC, Cisco join to secure government data 11/07/2007 08:35:58

    Microsoft, EMC and Cisco Systems on Tuesday jointly unveiled plans to build a system for sharing sensitive government data called the Secure Information Sharing Architecture (SISA) that will let various government agencies and their vendors securely share sensitive information.
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    RSA - Stand-alone security vendors nearing extinction 08/02/2007 11:21:35

    Stand-alone security vendors are going the way of dinosaurs.
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    Wireless LANs reach next round 27/12/2006 08:00:18

    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.
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    Cisco can't reproduce Black Hat flaw 15/08/2006 11:00:45

    Cisco Systems has been unable to reproduce a security flaw reported in its PIX firewall appliance earlier this month, the networking company said Tuesday.
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    BLACK HAT - Unpatched flaw revealed in Cisco firewall 07/08/2006 08:00:32

    Cisco Systems just can't seem to make it through the Black Hat USA conference unscathed. On Wednesday a security researcher showed how an unpatched vulnerability in the company's PIX firewall appliances that could allow outside attackers to gain access to corporate networks.
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