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The popularity of online stories is often determined by the reception they get at social networking sites. Unfortunately, the overwhelming number of supporters for a particular topic could lead... Read more...

The Internal Revenue Service let its guard down in a big way. It failed to save and review records adequately that could indicate if hackers were trying to break into the agency's systems. That... Read more...

Barely more than a month after the launch of "Google Killer" Cuil, site owners are saying that its Twiceler indexing bot is causing mayhem on their sites with its overzealous indexing. One user even... Read more...

In the wake of the furor over the way Comcast uses TCP reset flags to throttle BitTorrent and other peer-to-peer (P2P) traffic, the company is testing out a trio of protocol agnostic methods of... Read more...

A new report finds that China and the U.S. were home to the greatest percentage of Internet attacks during the first quarter of 2008. Akamai, which operates a global server network, said the most... Read more...

Security researcher develops rootkit for Cisco routers A security researcher claimed to have developed a rootkit for Cisco routers. The concern is that this could open the

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> Should CIOs throw away Vista? Article> Tech forces driving the industry. Read more...

This past Wednesday, large parts of the Middle East and South Asia experienced an Internet outage when an undersea cable off the northern coast of Egypt was severed. Though 70-80 percent of Internet... Read more...

Not that any CIO wants to hear this, but spammers ran rampant in 2007. And if you never saw any spam on your system, you had a great spam filter or you were very lucky. In 2007, spam accounted for a... Read more...

Intel is launching an online community to solicit ideas and recommendations from users. Executives speaking at last week's Office 2.0 conference in San Francisco said that they hope to start gaining... Read more...