Ageing networking protocols still employed by nearly every Internet-connected device are being abused by hackers to conduct distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) …
Traditional firewalls ‘no way near up to the mark’
Are traditional firewalls sufficient to protect against today’s sophisticated attacks? According to F5 Networks Australia and New Zealand channel manager, Chris Zamagias, …
Dell SonicWALL unveils next-gen firewall
Dell on Monday unveiled its SonicWALL SuperMassive 9000 Series next-generation firewall. The solution provides advanced threat protection at multi-gigabit speeds …
Gartner: Application-based DDoS attacks on the rise
According to a new report from Gartner, hackers are adapting distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks and combining these with …
Chinese tech aids Zambian government snooping
China this week faced allegations that it is helping the Zambian government with deep packet inspection technology in order to …
Mobile data to exceed fixed-line data by 2017
According to new research from Cisco, worldwide mobile data traffic will increase 13-fold over the next four years, exceeding the …
Asia Pacific to lead global cloud traffic
Asia Pacific will generate the most cloud traffic by 2016 as compared to North America and Western Europe. The second …
Mobile data to exceed 107 billion gigabytes in 2017
In five years time the global volume of mobile data traffic will be eight times more than what is expected …
Linx fortifies internet infrastructure for Olympics
The London Internet Exchange (Linx) is bolstering its network ahead of this summer’s Olympics, to help cope with an expected …
World IPv6 Launch boosts morale but traffic levels remain tiny
Despite widespread publicity for World IPv6 Launch day earlier this week, the protocol’s presence on the Internet remains painfully modest next to …