You should consider uninstalling WOT right now. Why? Because Web of Trust has been caught collecting and selling user data. Even worse, this data hasn't always been successfully anonymized.

The rules require providers to ask your permission before sharing your data.

Powered by radios in trees, homegrown network serves 50 houses on Orcas Island.

The Homebrew is still near the top of the class, but one off-the-shelf router bests it.

Over the past year or two, someone has been probing the defenses of the companies that run critical pieces of the Internet. These probes take the form of precisely calibrated attacks designed to determine exactly how well these companies can defend themselves, and what would be required to take them down. We don't know who is doing this, but it feels like a large a large nation state.

When your internet goes out, resetting your wi-fi router and cable modem often seems to fix the problem. Instead of getting up from the couch to fiddle with power cords, why not let a tiny outlet adapter power cycle your hardware for you?

Founded in 2001, San Jose-based Cavium is a fabless semiconductor designer that produces chips for the likes of Cisco, F5, Aruba, Netgear, Nokia Siemens, Juniper, Samsung, LG and others. Its Octeon SoCs turn up in cellphone base stations, and edge and core switches and routers, where MIPS is a traditional architecture.

With more speed available and hardware that can't adapt, DIY builds offer peak performance.

Shodan caught using time-keeping servers to quietly harvest IP addresses.

North America has officially run out of its stock of old net addresses.

A bunch of home gateway vendors, presumably sourcing their firmware from the same place, can be hijacked using depressingly common hard-coded logins. As the Carnegie-Mellon CERT states, the vendors involved are ASUS and ZTE in Asia, European vendors Digicom and Observa Telecom, and carrier Philippine Long Distance Telephone (PLDT), which was presumably house-branding the kit.

Powerline devices route data through your electric cables, offering an alternative when Wi-Fi fails. We review 4 of the latest kits to see how well they work.

If you aren't intimately familiar with software defined networking, don't fret. Only 10% of 450 IT practitioners at a recent Network World event raised their hands when asked if they understand SDN. But if the emerging technology lives up to its promise to redefine networking as we know it, there is no time like the present to dig in and learn more.

Cody Spafford found both solace and redemption in the kitchen of Seattle’s most celebrated restaurant. What turned a promising chef into a bank robber?

Some people may be trying to spend less time distracted on social media this year, but for freelancers, staying active on networks like Facebook and Twitter is one of the smartest moves they can make.

DSL, slow old DSL, may yet come back to compete with cable and fibre for the last-mile internet speed championship.

In April, ARIN, the (North) American Registry for Internet Numbers, announced that it had reached "phase 4" of its IPv4 countdown plan, with fewer than 17 million IPv4 addresses remaining. There is no phase 5. APNIC, the Asia-Pacific registry, reached the 17 million (one "/8" or 2^24 IPv4 addresses) threshold three years ago, and the RIPE NCC in Europe less than two years ago.

The new cables are based on Intel's Silicon Photonics technology that pushes 25Gbps across each fiber. Last year, Intel demonstrated speeds of 100Gbps in each direction, using eight fibers. A new connector that goes by the name "MXC" holds up to 64 fibers (32 for transmitting and 32 for receiving), enabling a jump to 800Gbps in one direction and 800Gbps in the other, or an aggregate of "1.6Tbps" as Intel prefers to call it. (In case you're wondering, MXC is not an acronym for anything.)

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