U.S. federal government agencies must meet an aggressive deadline of Sept. 30, 2012, to deploy IPv6 on their public-facing websites, under an Obama administration initiative. But with less than five months to go, more than 99% of federal websites aren't supporting the next-gen Internet Protocol on their DNS, email and Web services.
DENVER - IPv6 appears to have found a new killer app: business continuity.
Akamai will offer IPv6 services to its entire customer base in April -- a long-awaited move that will be a major boon to the adoption rate of the next-generation Internet Protocol.
More data was stolen from corporate networks last year by hactivists than by cybercriminals, according to a new report from Verizon.
Hactivists - not cybercriminals - were responsible for the majority of personal data stolen from corporate and government networks during 2011, according to a new report from Verizon.
CIOs are waking up to the reality that they've lost control over access to data stored in software-as-a-service applications purchased by other departments.
Proponents of a common scheme for managing user identity in cloud-based applications will pitch their idea to the Internet's premier standards-setting body at a meeting in Paris later this month.
IT professionals are scrambling to get trained and certified in what's expected to be the hottest new high-tech skill for 2012: Hadoop.
New job opportunities are emerging for IT professionals in the field of "big data," the term used to describe how corporations gather vast amounts of real-time data about their customers and analyze that data to drive decision making and increase profitability.
In honor of National Data Privacy Day this Saturday, Jan. 28, we've put together a list of the 15 worst Internet privacy scandals of all time.
Will 2012 be the year when US retailers, banks and content providers finally bolster their DNS systems with an add-on security measure that prevents Web site spoofing? That's what advocates of the security measure - dubbed DNSSEC for DNS Security Extensions - are hoping will occur.
A dozen of the world's largest Internet companies - including Facebook, Google and Comcast - have committed to June 6, as the start date for their production deployments of IPv6, an upgrade to the Internet's main communications protocol.
Several of the world's largest ISPs and websites have committed to permanently enabling <a href="http://www.networkworld.com/news/2009/073009-ipv6-guide.html">IPv6</a> -- the next-generation Internet Protocol -- on their products and services starting June 6, 2012.
Non-competitive pay is the main reason for high turnover rates among IT pros in their 20s and early 30s.
2012 is poised to go down in Internet history as one of the most significant 12-month periods from both a technical and policy perspective since the late 1990s, when this network-of-networks stopped being a research project and became an engine of economic growth.