News that Mykonos Software was acquired by Juniper Networks was published here earlier at SiliconANGLE.  The integration is ambitious, but invokes some great strategic alignment. The result should help deliver next-generation security directly from Juniper’s network market line and may do so with integration and standalone development of the Mykonos security technology. The Mykonos products ...

News that a call between the FBI and Scotland Yard was recorded and leaked by the online hacktivist group Anonymous broke earlier today. Confirmation from the FBI that the call was indeed real was made today. A spokesman stated the following: “The information was intended for law enforcement officers only and was illegally obtained. A ...

Remember when all a technology company needed was a funny name, a quirky Super Bowl Ad, and suddenly BOOM! and IPO that was worth $$??   As it turned out, these things were not to last as the companies themselves required a little more than buzz and more along the lines of sound business fundamentals. ...

We had a giant week of news for Facebook.  From Facebook Likes being hijacked, mandatory timeline rollout, and the latest news of an impending IPO, it is clear the social media behemoth has had plenty to dominate technology news.  A review of news items also reveals a planned January 28th attack on the site by the notorious ...

A report in the Wall Street Journal indicates Facebook may be filing for IPO sometime next week possibly as early as Wednesday. The social networking company may reportedly be selecting Morgan Stanley as the underwriter for the offering. The competition to be in underwriter position has been a Wall Street story for some time. Apparently ...

Breaking news: Anonymous is recruiting for an attack against Facebook January 28. In what appears to be a legitimate posting, YouTube user AnonymousVoice777 has published a video that seems to be recruiting for an attack against Facebook on January 28th. Anonymous Message On How YOU Can Be A Part Of #OpGlobalBlackout FACEBOOK ATTACK Hello. People ...

Last week’s DDOS attacks launched by Anonymous in response to SOPA legislation revealed one very interesting response.  According to a Fox News report, the justice department actually pulled its own website offline last Thursday, in a pre-emptive response to the threat of planned activity by the notorious hacktivist group.  The report states: “But the intelligence official tells a ...

Anonymous is back!! And in a big way. While 2012 has been projected as the year that cyber security becomes the highest priority over traditional military. With an interest and national security that lies in the lingering wake of the Wikileaks incidents, federal contractor breaches, and increasing high-profile compromises throughout the industry, an increasingly contentious ...

Three years. More than 1200 days. That’s how long transpired between the time that Apple was warned of a critical vulnerability and the time they actually patched it last month. It is the latest in a rising trend of false software updates providing a vector for intrusion and directed attack. Publicized recently in the Wall ...

Electronics gone wild.  First it was iPhones exploding,  then there was a story about studies showing wifi-enabled laptops killing sperm, now there is a story that says hackers can set your HP printers on fire.  It really seems like electronic devices are bordering on dangerous, based on what we see in the news. MSNBC reported ...