New Internet Engineering Task Force chair and Cisco Fellow Alissa Cooper lauds the organization as "a very special place because of the standards work it has done...Network World From ACM TechNews | March 29, 2017
The Internet Engineering Task Force's March meeting in Chicago could have a significantly reduced turnout because of the Trump administration's ban on admission...Network World From ACM TechNews | February 1, 2017
The U.S. National Science Foundation on Tuesday distributed 11 grants, totaling $12 million, to researchers working to expand the reach of wireless technology. Network World From ACM TechNews | October 20, 2016
A panel of leading cryptographers at this week's RSA Conference agreed inserting backdoors to unscramble encrypted communications is a threat to confidentiality...Network World From ACM TechNews | March 4, 2016
A researcher charges the protocol created by a U.K. governmental group to encrypt voice calls has a weakness built into it by design that could enable mass surveillance...Network World From ACM TechNews | January 22, 2016
Sir Tim Berners-Lee is using the 25th anniversary of his invention of the World Wide Web to push for an Internet bill of rights.Network World From ACM TechNews | October 1, 2014
Security researchers with permission from local road authorities hacked into nearly 100 wirelessly networked traffic lights and were able to change the lights on...Network World From ACM TechNews | August 25, 2014
Google chief Internet evangelist and ACM president Vint Cerf said strong regulations are needed to address privacy and other challenges the Internet of Things presents...Network World From ACM TechNews | November 20, 2013
Internet Engineering Task Force chair Jari Arkko recently spoke about the need for the engineers behind the Internet to push for new standards that would make it...Network World From ACM TechNews | November 11, 2013
The future of the Internet was in doubt heading into December and the World Conference on International Telecommunications. Neither those who want to control the...Network World From ACM TechNews | January 10, 2013
Researchers at the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, the U.S. Secret Service, and Carnegie Mellon University recently published a study that examined the technical...Network World From ACM TechNews | September 11, 2012
Organizations globally hold approximately 2.2 zettabytes of data and spend roughly $1.1 trillion to secure and provide access to it, according to a new Symantec...Network World From ACM TechNews | July 5, 2012
What is Duqu? Duqu (pronounced dyu kyu) is primarily a remote-access Trojan targeted at a limited number of organizations in Europe, Africa, and the Middle East...Network World From ACM News | October 21, 2011
Law enforcement may be interested to see if anyone actually shows up to this year to accept the annual Pwnie Award for Epic Ownage at Black Hat, since all the nominees...Network World From ACM News | July 26, 2011
A security researcher who says he's found serious problems with Siemens computers used in power plants and heavy industry is now expecting to go public with his...Network World From ACM News | June 8, 2011
A planned presentation on security vulnerabilities in Siemens industrial control systems was pulled Wednesday over worries that the information in the talk was...Network World From ACM News | May 19, 2011
Does the RSA SecurID two-token authentication system include a back door that was built in at the request of the U.S. government in exchange for letting RSA export...Network World From ACM News | March 24, 2011
From malware on Google's Android phones to the U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency trying to understand how stories or narratives impact security and...Network World From ACM News | March 4, 2011
Domain name abuse continues to be a serious problem, which is too often proliferated by some registrars who are willing to overlook phony registration information...Network World From ACM TechNews | September 15, 2009