networking
How to avoid digital dangers while traveling
It’s summer holiday season, when people pack up their smartphones and tablets, sunscreen and tank tops and set off for a change of pace. With connected devices …
Keep your laptop safe while using Wi-Fi hotspots
The relaxing atmosphere of surfing at the beach makes it easy to forget about the sharks. Connecting to an unsecured network poses serious risks to your laptop and data. In a …
nPulse updates its flow and packet capture appliance
nPulse released a new version of its Capture Probe eXtreme (CPX) flow and packet capture appliance, which provides a packet indexing solution at 30 million packets per second. …
Huawei’s Chinese connection continues to be source of suspicion
A day after it was announced that the UK government will investigate the employees at the Huawei’s Cyber Security Evaluation Center located in Banbury, Oxfordshire, …
NETGEAR introduces R6100 WiFi router
NETGEAR is expanding its family of 802.11ac wireless products with the R6100 WiFi Router. The R6100 is a dual band router that supports combined WiFi speeds up to 1200 Mbps …
Barracuda Web Filter models with 10 GbE interfaces
Barracuda Networks announced new high-performance 10 GbE interfaces for its Web Filter 1010 and 1011 models. The new models feature increased performance and capacity to offer …
Netgear releases the ProSafe WN203 Wireless AP
Netgear has shipped its ProSAFE Single-Band Wireless-N Access Point (WN203) to satisfy demand from small and medium-sized businesses to improve the performance and security of …
TP-LINK announces Archer C7 Wi-Fi router
TP-LINK released the AC1750 Wireless Dual Band Gigabit Router, Archer C7, that support the 802.11ac standard. Archer C7 operates over both the 2.4GHz and 5GHz bands to give …
Wi-Fi client security weaknesses still prevalent
Google Android, Apple iOS, BlackBerry, and Windows Mobile devices have an inherent security weakness in the method they use for connecting to Wi-Fi networks that has the …
Open source NAC PacketFence 4.0 released
PacketFence is a fully supported, trusted, free and open source NAC solution. Among the features provided by PacketFence, there are: BYOD workflows Guests management Multiple …
Academic institutions urged to improve network and DNS configurations
The Research and Education Networking Information Sharing and Analysis Center (REN-ISAC) has issued an alert to IT security staff, and network and DNS administrators urging …
Bringing networking and security together through network automation
The past ten years have seen a proliferation of increasingly complex network devices. Coupled with the recent rise in adoption of BYOD policies, mobile working practices, …