Dave Webb

Dave Webb is a freelance editor and writer. A veteran journalist of more than 20 years' experience (15 of them in technology), he has held senior editorial positions with a number of technology publications. He was honoured with an Andersen Consulting Award for Excellence in Business Journalism in 2000, and several Canadian Online Publishing Awards as part of the ComputerWorld Canada team.

Articles by Dave Webb

NAC module lowers barrier to entry, Cisco says

Cisco Systems Inc.

Survivor: Dave’s Place

Out of the blue last week, a parcel arrived bearing Corsair's Flash Survivor, a ruggedized 8G USB key in a blister pack with a...

Honeypots and the Accidental Hacker

I was intending to post something on the book Virtual Honeypots: From Botnet Tracking to Intrusion Detection, by Google engineer Niels Provos and German...

Catch more flies with virtual honeypots

Neils Provos, a senior staff engineer with Google, co-wrote Virtual Honeypots: From Botnet Tracking to Intrusion Detection with German graduate student Thorsten Holz. He discussed the concept of honeypots, how they work and why virtual is better with Network World Canada.

ZTE D90: Heavy texting

We have the new ZTE D90 mobile phone in the office for a test drive, courtesy of Telus and ZTE. I've mentioned in this...

Yahoo Pipefitting

Patrice-Guy Martin, editor of our French-language magazine Direction Informatique, alerted the rest of us to the beta mash-up engine Yahoo Pipes. Pipes is essential...

Two lines, one phone, and too much in LD charges

Rogers Wireless launched its Second Voice Line Service this morning, offering two phone lines on a single cell phone. It's aimed at the SMB...

Paying the iBill

Schadenfreude isn't really my bag, but after suffering through roughly a kajillion iPhone news releases, articles and analyses, I got a chuckle out of...

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