DARPA looks to adaptive battlefield wireless nets
A new Department of Defense project is trying to use cutting-edge wireless research to create a tactical radio net that can adapt to keep soldiers linked with each other on the battlefield.
Gitmo gets high-bandwidth makeover
The U.S. Naval base at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, notorious as the prison for enemy combatants, poses a lot of other thorny problems, including a copper communications infrastructure extremely unfriendly to high-speed networking.
IBM to spend $1.5 billion to improve computer security
IBM will spend $1.5 billion developing computer security products in 2008, a sum that could double the company’s previous spending.
Cisco to buy policy management vendor for $100 million
Cisco this week announced an agreement to acquire Securent, a provider of policy management software for enterprises, for $100 million. Securent is privately held and based in Mountain View, Calif. The company’s distributed policy platform lets enterprises administer, enforce, and audit access to data, communications, and applications in heterogeneous IT application environments, Cisco says.
Cyber jihad set for Nov. 11
Security experts are saying that a reported al-Qaeda cyber jihad attack planned against Western institutions should be treated with skepticism.
A second life for ‘Second Life’ with open source?Sun building collaborative, virtual world for teleworkers
In the aftermath of the hype over the virtual world, a tiny group of developers presses on with building its Linux presence. Plus:
The 10 biggest Web annoyances
In its relatively short life, the World Wide Web has already made many of our most mundane, tedious tasks quicker and easier to perform. But there are still a surprising number of activities — from helping us buy concert tickets to protecting our privacy — that, for one reason or another, the Web still can’t get right, stirring the ire of even the most patient users. We look at 10 of the worst of them.
Spammers employ stripper to crack CAPTCHAs
Spammers are using a virtual stripper as bait to dupe people into helping criminals crack codes they need to send more spam or boost the rankings of parasitic Web sites, security researchers said Tuesday.
Wireless slowly dies after Leopard upgrade, users reportLicensing change opens Apple Leopard Server to virtualization
Mac users are reporting a number of problems with their wireless connections after updating to Leopard. Plus:
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Apple’s not all lollipops and puppy dogs
Keith and Jason discuss Google opening up its social network, the fast-selling Apple Leopard OS, and the biggest pet peeves they have about co-workers’ office habits.
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All about IP routing with Jeff Doylecelebrity blogger for Cisco Subnet, will answer all your questions on networking, routing and anything else you want to ask in a live chat on Wed. Nov. 7 from 2 p.m. – 3 p.m. EST.
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BLOGS
Bot-herders for Ron Paul?
Not exactly the kind of “support” Paul – or any presidential candidate – would like to have.
Buzzblog: Blog readers make lousy editors
Don’t worry about blogging without your posts first being read by an editor, they told me — they being experienced journalist/bloggers — because the readers will always have your back; the readers, they said, will be your de facto editors. Well, almost two years into this venture I am here to tell you that those assurances have proven valid … once in awhile. (This post has a poll, too.)
Today on Layer 8, where we are big on anything that helps emergency workers:
Researchers at Princeton are building security features directly into the hardware of personal computers, cell phones or PDAs, with the goal of building a computer architecture that enables the secure transmission of crucial rescue information to first responders during events such as natural disasters, fires or terrorist attacks.
Today on Microsoft SubnetSQL Server 2005 Maintenance Practices, and check out the authors blogs. Read Chris Amaris’s blog here and catch up with Ross Mistry and his blog here. Plus, training that won’t waste your money, part II; and Michael Dortch ponders the (too) many faces of Microsoft.
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