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N.J. mayor arrested on hacking, conspiracy charges

(Lucian Constantin) — Fri, 25 May 2012 15:45:00 GMT

The mayor of West New York, New Jersey, was arrested together with his son on Thursday, for allegedly hacking into a website that criticized him and his administration.

Security researcher urges IT to keep up with SAP patches

(Loek Essers) — Thu, 24 May 2012 16:37:00 GMT

More than 95 percent of over 600 SAP systems tested by security firm Onapsis were vulnerable to espionage, sabotage and fraud, mainly because patches had not been applied, according to a researcher.

Verizon looks to Alcatel's new core router for capacity, efficiency

(Stephen Lawson) — Tue, 22 May 2012 21:45:00 GMT

Verizon Communications on Tuesday became the first service provider to say it will use Alcatel-Lucent's upcoming 7950 XRS core routing system, which will bring the French-American equipment vendor into the carrier core routing business for the first time in about a decade.

How to avoid 5 common email management mistakes

(Susan Perschke) — Mon, 21 May 2012 04:29:00 GMT

Email managers have a lot at stake. After all, the volume of global electronic messages sent via email dwarfs all other forms of electronic communication, including social networking. Since the inception of electronic mail, which, according to some Internet historians, can be traced to a small mainframe app called 'MAILBOX' from the mid-1960s, human-to-human messages have been created, transmitted and stored in electronic format. But early email administrators could hardly have envisioned the complexity of current email infrastructure and the concomitant maze of technical, security, business and regulatory challenges.

Researcher runs IP network over xylophones

(Joab Jackson) — Sat, 12 May 2012 12:01:00 GMT

Vint Cerf once wore a shirt that read "IP on Everything," a wry comment on the versatility of the Internet Protocol he helped invent, a protocol that underlies all Internet communication. Now a University of California Berkeley researcher has put Cerf's maxim to the test, running an IP network over a set of xylophones, played by human participants.

Verizon to offer 100G links, resilient mesh on optical networks

(Stephen Lawson) — Sat, 12 May 2012 01:00:00 GMT

Looking ahead to growing demand for bandwidth to feed large companies and computing clouds, Verizon Communications announced steps on Friday to increase the speed of the links its enterprise customers can buy and to make its network connections more resilient.

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