Brocade to buy Foundry. The storage networking company says it will acquire the enterprise LAN vendor for $3 billion and, in so doing, intends to become an alternative to Cisco with product lines that reach all the way from the Internet into datacenters.Weeks before they were due to be disclosed, a blog shares the technical aspects of an Internet flaw through which attackers could launch a DNS cache poisoning attack.Opera’s issuance of its Opera Mobile 9.5 this week marks the latest in a string of browsers that are finally turning browsing on a handheld into reality, and more software is expected to emerge later this year. And, yes, this means the browser wars are back — on a new battlefield. When XP and Vista systems update to iTunes 7.7 they’ll also get a control panel applet for Apple’s MobileMe online sync and storage service. Apple pushes MobileMe surprise to XP, Vista. At least one anti-malware group objected to similar tactics this spring when Apple offered Safari 3.1 to Windows users by way of the Apple Software Update tool, regardless of whether they already had the browser or not. And in this Off the Record caper, clever students make a hapless admin’s job an absolute nightmare by circumventing the poorly built student Internet service. “Maybe it was mean to perpetrate this kind of fun, but we really were mystified by the guy’s continued employment at the school.” Technology Industry