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Cisco has fixed a bug in its IOS (Internetwork Operating System) router software that contributed to a brief Internet blackout last week, thought to have affected about 1 percent of the Internet.

Proposals from Research In Motion (RIM) for lawful access of its networks by law enforcement agencies in India are being put into operation immediately, the government said Monday.

An experiment run by Duke University and a European group responsible for managing Internet resources went wrong Friday, disrupting a small percentage of Internet traffic.

There are more than a dozen different DLP vendors. We show you three typical products, how they work, and what kinds of information they track.

Research In Motion has offered to lead an industry forum in India focused on supporting the lawful access needs of law enforcement agencies, while preserving the legitimate information security needs of corporations and other organizations in India, RIM said Thursday.

Sun is the king of unpatched software vulnerabilities followed closely by Microsoft and Mozilla, according to the mid-year security report by IBM’s X-Force.

Intel surprised the IT community this week with its plans to buy McAfee. Intel justified the multibillion-dollar purchase price by citing the importance of securing mobile devices, a growing need. Facebook users can now share even more information thanks to the site’s Places service, which allows people to publish their location on their profiles. U.S. broadband user complaints about slow service could be valid, according to a government study that says service providers are skimping on bandwidth. This week brought more private network neutrality talks, further frustrating open Internet advocates who were already miffed by Google and Verizon Communication’s negotiations.

Intel has pledged that its proposed $7.68 billion McAfee buyout will result in more secure networked devices through an integration of software and hardware that will challenge offerings from other big security vendors and perhaps change the way in which security is delivered to enterprise IT shops.

Intel (INTC — NASDAQ) said Thursday morning it has entered into an agreement to acquire McAfee (MFE — NYSE) for approximately $$7.68 billion, based on a price of $48 per share.