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.
An invisible security weakness is lurking in most corporate networks in the form of millions of lines of code that represent the configuration scripts for all the devices on the network.
As more employees visit social networking sites while at work, network managers are seeing a rise in accidental malware infections known as drive-by download attacks.
A New Zealand company called VortexDNA has launched the Web Genome Project as an alternative way to search the Web.
A leading management consulting firm is predicting tough times ahead for CIOs, as companies <a href="http://www.networkworld.com/news/2008/120908-it-spending-forecast.html">cut IT spending</a> and turn to commodity services to preserve cash during the recession.
U.S. government agencies are scrambling to plug one of their biggest security holes: sensitive information -- names, addresses and Social Security numbers, for example -- stored on laptops, handhelds and thumb drives.
The internet's leading standards bodies have joined forces to clarify a set of next-generation network transport specifications that critics warn could cause massive interoperability problems for service providers.
IT professionals are mad as hell about Nicholas Carr's new book, The Big Switch: Rewiring the World from Edison to Google, which predicts the demise of the corporate IT department and its replacement by utility computing.
The IT department's days are numbered, due to a shift to utility computing. So predicts Nicholas Carr in his new book,The Big Switch: Rewiring the World from Edison to Google.
If you think migrating to IPv6 is as simple as upgrading to Microsoft Windows Vista, think again.
Russ Housley is the first chair of the IETF with a particular expertise in network security. Housley, who runs consulting firm Vigil Security, has been active in the IETF (Internet Engineering Task Force) for nearly 20 years and helped write early email security and public key infrastructure standards. Three months into his job as chair of the leading internet standards body, Housley talked with Computerworld about his strategy for bolting better security onto the freewheeling internet.
The new IPv6 is a long-anticipated upgrade to the internet’s primary protocol, IPv4. It has a 128-bit addressing scheme that lets it support an order-of-magnitude more devices connected directly to the internet than IPv4’s 32-bit addressing. It also boasts autoconfiguration, end-to-end security and other enhancements.
When it comes to network management software that supports IPv6, buyers should be wary.
Early adopters of Microsoft's new Vista operating system are reporting problems with its implementation of IPv6, a long-anticipated upgrade to the Internet's primary protocol.
Joining Blue Shield of California as CIO in 2005, Elinor MacKinnon found no strategic or tactical planning function inside the IT department. So she set about creating one from scratch for the San Francisco-based health insurer.