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The Seagate and Hikvision legacy: designing the world’s first surveillance drive

October 28, 2026 by Marcus Lee
The Seagate and Hikvision legacy: Designing the world’s first surveillance drive

How Seagate and Hikvision worked together from 2005 on a hard drive built for surveillance, leading to the 2006 SV35 and later SkyHawk drives, as described in 2015.

Categories Tech Tags Hikvision, Seagate, SkyHawk, Surveillance HDD, Video surveillance storage

Asia-Pacific security landscape: old and new threats side by side

October 28, 2026 by Marcus Lee
Asiapacific security landscape shows mix oldand new threats

How Asia-Pacific security threats mixed long-standing risks with newer cyber-insecurity around 2012, based on regional policy research from Japan and CSIS.

Categories Cybersecurity Tags ASEAN, Asia-Pacific security, Cyber warfare, Cyber-insecurity, Regional security

Should You Fear the Reaper (IoTroop) Botnet?

October 28, 2026 by Marcus Lee
Should You Fear the Reaper?

In October 2017 Check Point and Qihoo 360 Netlab warned of Reaper, also called IoTroop, an IoT botnet that exploits device flaws rather than default passwords.

Categories Cybersecurity Tags Check Point, IoT botnet, IoTroop, Mirai, Qihoo 360 Netlab, Reaper

IoT, 5G and the significance of fiber: CommScope’s 2018 case for fibre-heavy networks

October 20, 2026 by Marcus Lee
IoT, 5G and the significance of fiber

In 2018 CommScope argued that 5G and IoT, with Gartner’s forecast of 20 billion connected devices by 2020, would need far more fibre, edge sites and converged networks.

Categories Tech Tags 5G, CommScope, Edge computing, Fibre backhaul, Gartner, IoT

Cloud computing 2018: How enterprise adoption was taking shape in IDG’s survey

October 20, 2026 by Marcus Lee
Cloud computing 2018: How enterprise adoption is taking shape

IDG’s 2018 cloud computing survey of 550 organisations found 73% already had cloud in place, security worries easing and SaaS set to grow. How later studies compare.

Categories Tech Tags Cloud computing, Foundry, Hybrid cloud, IDG Research, Multicloud, SaaS

Microsoft acknowledges Linux threat to Windows client in annual filing

October 20, 2026October 13, 2026 by Marcus Lee
Microsoft acknowledges Linux threat to Windows client

In its 2009 annual report to the SEC, Microsoft for the first time named Linux vendors Red Hat and Canonical as competitors to its Windows client business, citing netbooks.

Categories Cybersecurity Tags Canonical, Linux, Microsoft, Netbooks, Red Hat, Windows client
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