* Inside the X-Force * IEEE looks into Energy Efficient Ethernet * Open source tool released for translating between Microsoft, ODF file formats * Gates, Ellison to tout security at RSA * RSA Conference: Vendors bolster wireless and mobile security offerings * Video interview: Revving up databases * Vendors make a splash without causing a scene * Podcast: 'Live' from DEMO 2007 * Buzzblog: Gates has no sense of humor about 'Mac vs. PC' ads
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Inside the X-Force
When the sensors feeding into Internet Security Systems’ Global Threat Operations Center detected a new XML HTTP vulnerability early last November, attacks exploiting that vulnerability already were occurring across the Internet. That’s when members of the X-Force, ISS’ 200-person R&D team, knew they had a “level zero” on their hands. Zero, as in zero day, means there is no gap between the public discovery of a vulnerability by security researchers and the launch by hackers of an exploit based on that vulnerability. Click here for our behind-the-scenes look at the X-Force.
IEEE looks into Energy Efficient Ethernet
The IEEE wants to make idle or underutilized Ethernet connections more energy efficient, which could mean huge electrical cost savings for large enterprises. The trick: finding a way to seamlessly throttle between 10Mbps and 10Gbps. The standards outfit recently formed an Energy Efficient Ethernet study group to explore how to do this. Click here for details.
Open source tool released for translating between Microsoft, ODF file formats
Developers funded by Microsoft delivered on Friday the first phase of an open source tool designed to translate between the default Office 2007 file type and a competing open source document format. Open XML Translator 1.0 is available early for free on Source Forge, the open source software development Web site where the first prototype of the Translator tool was posted last July. The tool was developed under the open source Berkeley Software Distribution license. Click here for more.
Gates, Ellison to tout security at RSA
The annual RSA Conference, expected to draw 15,000 security professionals and more than 325 vendors from around the world to San Francisco’s Moscone Center exhibit hall, kicks off this week with keynotes from industry luminaries Bill Gates and Larry Ellison. Click here for more.
RSA Conference: Vendors bolster wireless and mobile security offerings
Two vendors this week plan to unveil new or improved mobile security products for the enterprise, staging the news at the annual RSA Conference in San Francisco. Click here for more.
Video interview: Revving up databases
How did Avokia help virtualize databases that were thousands of miles apart? Company CEO Alan McMillan explains on this week’s Network World Hot Seat.
Vendors make a splash without causing a scene
Sixty-eight companies at Network World’s DEMO 07 conference last week managed to bring attention to their new products and services without shutting down a single highway, bridge or river. Not a bomb-sniffing dog in sight. No one hauled off in handcuffs. Click here for more.
Podcast: ‘Live’ from DEMO 2007
Keith and Jason check in from DEMO 2007 with some surreal highlights involving Barry Bonds – yes, THE Barry Bonds – and 10 of their favorite demonstrations. (38:11) Listen now.
Buzzblog: Gates has no sense of humor about ‘Mac vs. PC’ ads
But I have rediscovered mine. Click here for more.
