Stories by: Carolyn Duffy Marsan

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    Google adding IPv6 to YouTube 21/11/2009 02:43:00

    Google plans to upgrade its YouTube video streaming Web site to provide support for IPv6, a long-anticipated upgrade to the Internet's main communications protocol.
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    Pentagon expands exclusive deal with McAfee 19/11/2009 09:35:00

    The U.S. Defense Department is expanding its exclusive arrangement with McAfee, whose security software is at the heart of the military's cybersecurity efforts.
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    VeriSign bolsters security for .com, .net sites 16/11/2009 17:23:00

    More than 95 million Web sites – including 80 million using .com names and 15 million using .net names – will have access to new security mechanisms that prevent visitors from being unknowingly sent to phony sites engaged in phishing and pharming attacks.
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    US veterans agency looks beyond EMC for multi-million storage deal 10/11/2009 10:37:00

    With a 75-year retention requirement and 5 petabytes of data, the US Department of Veterans Affairs faces major challenges when it comes to storing data in its primary data center in Austin, Texas.
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    Secure telework without a VPN 20/10/2009 00:27:00

    How to provide a secure telework environment without much overhead? That was the question facing Octagon Capital, a Toronto brokerage firm that ended up choosing an unusual hardware-and-cloud service from Route1.
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    The Web browser turns 15: A look back 13/10/2009 09:15:00

    The Web browser turns 15 on Oct. 13, 2009 - a key milestone in the history of the Internet. That’s when the first commercial Web browser - eventually called Netscape Navigator - was released as beta code. While researchers including World Wide Web inventor Tim Berners-Lee and a team at the National Center for Supercomputing Applications created Unix browsers between 1991 and 1994, Netscape Navigator made this small piece of desktop software a household name.
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    Pentagon: Our cloud is better than Google's 06/10/2009 06:38:00

    The U.S. Defense Department is offering cloud computing services that military officials claim are safer and more reliable than commercial providers such as Google.
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    Top high-tech rollercoasters 14/08/2009 14:58:00

    Behind the vertical dives and loop de loops of today's top tech rollercoasters are cutting-edge computer systems that thrill riders and keep them safe.
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    Disney finds "a whole new world" in WiFi-powered rides 05/08/2009 01:55:00

    Disney claims its first use of an 802.11 wireless network to operate an amusement park rides is a hit.
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    DNS remains vulnerable one year after Kaminsky bug 27/07/2009 08:59:00

    A year has passed since security researcher Dan Kaminsky disclosed a serious flaw in the DNS that makes it possible for hackers to launch cache poisoning attacks, where traffic is redirected from a legitimate Web site to a fake one without the Web site operator or end user knowing.
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    Will new top-level domains promote cybersquatting? 17/07/2009 08:51:00

    The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) is hosting two meetings this week -- one in New York City and the other in London -- to discuss the trademark and cybersecurity issues surrounding its plan to introduce hundreds of new top-level domains into the Internet.
 
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