Security comes at a price

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Nov 3, 20051 min

Security: Another critical flaw in Cisco’s IOS has been discovered. This is the second such vulnerability to emerge that is related to a controversial security presentation given at the Black Hat USA security conference in July of this year. And industry veteran, inCode exec Bengt Nordström says that when it comes to the mobile Internet, telephony and communications in particular,cheap solutions wins out over secure options.

The news beat: Google expands its Library project with more public-domain books from universities. Sun Microsystems announced its Galaxy line of servers two months ago, but an executive confirmed that the Galaxy systems are not yet shipping in volume because the company is still refining the manufacturing process. BEA Systems made its fifth acquisition in recent months, this time swallowing SolarMetric, whose Kodo object persistence engine supports the EJB 3.0 and Java Data Objects programming models.

Best of the blogs: Oliver Rist takes a quick look at the new open source browser from Nokia.

Storage: At the recent Storage Networking World, 10Gbps technologies were all the rage. Mario Apicella casts his eye at some of those products and other storage-related news in Riding a 10G gale at SNW Fall.