Citrix is the first desktop virtualization company to meet every enterprise requirement, the Burton Group says.

A Defcon contest that invites contestants to trick employees at U.S. corporations into revealing not-so-sensitive data has rattled some nerves.

MIcrosoft will ship a beta of Internet Explorer 9 (IE9) in September, a company executive said today.

Today is System Administrator Appreciation Day, but the IT workers who keep corporate desktops, servers and networks running don't have much to celebrate.

The IEEE's 802.3az standard for Energy Efficient Ethernet is expected to be finalized by next year, but it's not too soon to think about how your IT organization can migrate to EEE.

Microsoft is pushing its weight around in 2010 by offering numerous tools that used to be provided only by third-party vendors, and embracing the virtualization and software-as-a-service delivery models, analysts sa

Sourcefire, a 10-year-old firm specializing in intrusion detection and prevention, Thursday announced increased year-over-year second quarter revenue and earnings and predicted an even better third quarter. The company reported Q2 revenue of $30.6 million, up 38% from Q2 a year ago and up nearly 19% from Q1. Adjusted net income was $3.3 million, more than double that from Q2 last year. The third quarter looks still brighter with at least $34.3 million in revenues expected by the company. Sourcefire was founded in 2001 by CTO Martin Roesch, http://www.networkworld.com/news/2002/130412_02-25-2002.html who created the Snort open-source IDS/IPS technology. The company struggled in its earlier years to gain financial momentum with its commercial Snort-based offerings, but finally hit profitability during the second half of last year. “We made $500,000,” says Greg Fitzgerald, senior vice president of marketing. “It was a banner year.” FAKE SIDE: For all the latest open source news, visit our Open Source Subnet http://www.networkworld.com/subnets/opensource/

More than halfway through what vendors and many analysts predicted would be the year virtual desktops would replace enormous numbers of the physical kind, sales of desktop virtualization products are growing at a rate "that looks about the same as in 2009," according to Ian Song, analyst for International Data Corp.

Once thought to be unhackable, the Android phone is anything but, according to researchers presenting at Black Hat 2010.

Google likes to boast that more than 2 million businesses run Google Apps, but IT pros harbor concerns about security in the cloud.

LAS VEGAS -- Radio frequency ID tags embedded in U.S. passports can be read hundreds of feet away, potentially making it inexpensive and easy to pick American tourists out of crowds for illicit purposes, "spychips", a demonstration at Black Hat 2010 showed.

Trusteer is taking its online banking security services a step further and will start removing malware that it finds trying to interfere with bank customers' financial transactions.

Hackers appear to be increasingly counting on configuration problems and programming errors rather than software vulnerabilities in order to steal information from computer systems, according to a new study from Verizon.

The Microsoft Vulnerability Research program said Wednesday that third party developers have patched less than half the bugs it reported to them over the past 12 months.

Some existing wireless LANs, based on 802.11abg gear, already "are buckling under video applications," says Andrew Borg, senior research analyst for wireless and mobility at Aberdeen Group, a technology research and consulting firm based in Boston. And the surge in sophisticated mobile devices is making it worse.

AirTight Networks says it's found a weak point in Wi-Fi Protected Access 2 (WPA2), the mainstay of enterprise Wi-Fi security. But has it? Security expert Matthew Gast says the attack seems to be a familiar ARP spoofing exploit that works as well on wired as wireless LANS. If so, it can easily be contained.

One emerging issue for some enterprise Wi-Fi networks is radio management challenges as the number of access points and wireless clients grow.

Amazon's cloud computing division is planning to "raise the bar" on security, and claims it can provide better security than most enterprises achieve on their own.

Juniper Networks this week announced it is acquiring privately held SMobile Systems, a developer of security software for smartphones and tablets, for $70 million in cash.