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If you’d like an attacker to eavesdrop on your calls made on VoIP phones, then leave the default password in place. If not, then change it.

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A quarter of companies have made their mind up when it comes to a ransomware attack. They're paying the ransom, according to a new study.

A cyberespionage group of Russian origin known as Pawn Storm is infecting Linux systems with a simple but effective Trojan program that doesn't require highly privileged access.

The Open Compute Project's reputation, according to industry folklore, is as a cost-cutting innovator that scaled up Facebook's data centers with commodity hardware. Last week, Wired and CIO speculated that OCP's announcement of the Telco Project with large telecoms like AT&T, Deutsche Telekom, and SK Telecom were targeting Cisco and HP's proprietary gear with open-sourced commodity hardware, so they could compete with cloud service providers Amazon, Microsoft, and Google.

Amazon Web Services has agreed to buy Nice, an Italian vendor of high-performance computing software and services to extend its as-a-service offering.

New products of the week

Our roundup of intriguing new products. Read how to submit an entry to Network World's products of the week slideshow.

When your company is known for innovation, the role of Chief Strategy Officer is a pretty daunting job.  Hilton Romanski was elevated to that position right before Chuck Robbins took over as CEO last July.  Network World Editor in Chief John Dix recently caught up with Romanski to get an inside view of how the Cisco strategy engine runs.

Nikola Alic, a photonics research scientist at the University of California’s Qualcomm Institute in San Diego, argues that optical research offers the best hope for helping the Internet accommodate the ever growing flow of multimedia services.

Apple has requested a court in New York to rule finally whether it can be compelled to assist investigators to break the passcode of an iPhone 5s belonging to a defendant in a criminal case.

A malware program for Android seen advertised on Russian underground forums in the last few months appears to have made its first big debut.

Attackers are still trying to find Magento installations that haven't patched a particularly bad vulnerability, this time trying to trick people into downloading a fake patch.

It's starting to look like Apple is going to have an unusually busy March this year. According to a fresh report from 9to5Mac, Apple's rumored 4-inch iPhone 5se and iPad Air 3 will be unveiled on March 15 and will be available in stores just a few days later, on Friday, March 18 to be exact

In the spirit of Valentine’s Day perhaps, much of the focus of iPhone 7 rumors over the past week or so has been on what’s on the inside (since that’s what matters of course…). Not to say that eye candy like Herman Haidin’s “iPhone Essence” design concept didn’t get a fair amount of love from iPhone followers this week.