Robert McMillan

Articles by Robert McMillan

Undersea cable cut disrupts Internet, phone traffic

Damage to three major underwater data lines in the Mediterranean sea hampered Internet and telephone traffic between Europe, the Middle East and Asia

U.S. intelligence group gets network security patent

The American government

40-year-old computer mouse demo still amazes

The 1968 demonstration introduced hyperlinks, videoconferencing and a mouse to a largely punch-card-driven computing community

How spyware nearly sent a teacher to prison

Julie Amero faced 40 years behind bars for allegedly exposing her students to inappropriate images on her classroom computer. Read about her four year ordeal and how anti-malware company exec helped her get a guilty verdict overturned

Google releases spam calculator tool

How much does spam cost you? Google's spam filtering service helps companies figure out how much spam costs their business

Symantec CEO John Thompson announces retirement

Symantec chief operating officer and former Norton Utilities engineer, Enrique Salem is named as successor

Microsoft takes seven years to patch critical flaw

Call it the seven year itch. It took that and a few months more for Microsoft to finally fix a bug in its server message block which allows attackers to grab control of computers in a corporate network

Utilities lack protection against cyber attacks

Network engineers, administrators and managers are irked that critical infrastructures remain largely unprotected despite mounting attacks

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