Mark Hachman

PALO ALTO, Calif.—Intel Corp.s communications chief tempered expectations of a future “Radio Free Intel” project, warning that it will be some time until a single chip will be able to access a variety of wireless networks and cellular services. However, an Intel spokesman said an announcement on the companys Wi-Fi-to-cellular roaming strategy is expected in […]

LAS VEGAS—Not enough CISOs understand the limits of application security or the tools to execute them, a panel of security experts said Thursday. Too many customers are treating so-called “pen scans” as the latest buzzword, without knowing how to apply the results to improve their security, according to panelists at the Black Hat security briefings […]

LAS VEGAS—Firewalls could become redundant at some point in the future, a researcher said at the Black Hat conference here Wednesday. Paul Simmonds, global information security director at Imperial Chemical Industries plc and co-founder of the Jericho Forum, doesnt advocate dropping firewalls altogether. He argues that properly secured data wont need the firewall whether or […]

LAS VEGAS—A German consultant has released a tool that its creator says will allow modifications of the code stored within RFID tags, theoretically allowing consumers to wreak havoc in future retail deployments. The RFDump software allows a user equipped with an RFID reader, a laptop or PDA, and a power supply to rewrite the data […]

LAS VEGAS—Its as easy as “point, click, root.” At a heavily attended panel Wednesday at the Black Hat security conference here, HD Moore and “spoonm” unveiled the latest release of the Metasploit Framework, an exploit tool designed to quickly take over a variety of target platforms. Although the framework was developed several months ago, the […]

Seagate Technology has increased the warranty of almost all of its hard drives to five years, reversing a trend toward shorter-period warranties. The warranties will apply to all of Seagates internal desktop, mobile, and enterprise hard drives that buyers purchase today, excluding external drives, Seagate executives said. For the past year, the warranties on hard […]

Iomega Corp. said it plans to wind down its DCT small-form-factor storage operation, failing to find enough customers to keep the operation afloat. On Thursday, July 22, Iomega reported a net loss of $19.8 million for its second quarter on revenue of $77.6 million. Revenue dipped by 23 percent from a year ago, largely from […]

Seagate stumbled in its fiscal fourth quarter, but design wins with Creative Technology Ltd. and a raft of new products portend greater sales in the second half, the company said. Seagate Technology Inc., of Scotts Valley, Calif., reported a loss of $33 million on revenue of $1.34 billion, including $39 million in a one-time restructuring […]

Freescale Semiconductor Inc. recorded a small profit in its first official earnings reports, offsetting a loss in its telecoms unit. The Austin, Texas-based semiconductor spinoff from Motorola Inc. reported earnings of $43 million on net sales of $1.46 billion following a “separation” charge of $41 million. Net income decreased from the first quarter, when Freescale […]

Intel Corp. has moved its “Dothan” mobile processor into the ultra-low-voltage space, scattering additional price cuts among its mobile microprocessor lineup. Intel introduced the LV/ULV Intel Centrino 1.40GHz model 738, 1.10GHz model 733, and 1GHz model 723 alongside the platforms corresponding Pentium M counterparts. The Centrino bundles include, in addition to the processor, an Intel […]