Open source swarms around NAC
A pair of Harvard University IT staffers last week released a free virtual appliance that supports their open source network access control platform – just one of many free NAC tools springing up to address security-hungry customers.
Ohio State and Florida battle for basketball and network supremacy
As the defending NCAA men’s basketball champion Florida Gators prepare for another Final Four, the University of Florida IT department in Gainesville is busy overseeing the operations of a statewide optical network that links the 11 state universities and will connect the UF physics department to data from Switzerland’s Large Hadron Collider, a particle accelerator opening later this year.
Cisco VoIP and presence servers vulnerable to new attacks
Cisco this week said its corporate VoIP and presence servers could be attacked remotely by flooding the devices with specific types of traffic intended to crash these systems.
UPDATE–TJX data theft called largest ever: 45.7M credit card numbers
Detailing the sheer magnitude of a crime first reported earlier this year, TJX yesterday disclosed in financial reports that at least 45.6 million credit and debit card numbers were stolen in 2005 and another 130,000 last year by hackers who have yet to be caught.
TJX breach may spur greater adoption of credit card security standards
The exposure of 45.7 million credit and debit card numbers in the TJX data theft should serve as a wakeup call to retailers who risk losing money and credibility when they fail to protect sensitive customer data, say officials at the PCI Security Security Standards Council.
WiMAX brightest star among many at CTIA
Many themes carried this week’s CTIA Wireless 2007 conference but perhaps none were more prevalent than WiMAX.
NetIQ revs up systems management software
NetIQ this week announced it had upgraded its flagship systems and application management software to offer IT managers more automated features and better control over distributed IT assets.
Microsoft, partners have work to do on management technology
Despite touting technology this week designed to let users integrate management platforms using modeling technology, Microsoft and its partners are missing key specifications that will take months to complete and years to roll into …
Case study
Linux, open source software pay off for PayPalPayPal runs thousands of Linux-based, single-rack-unit servers, which host the company’s Web-presentation layer, middleware and user interface. Here’s how it works.
Blogs
Buzzblog: More Networx fallout … for GSA … and Sprintthe world’s most powerful man.
The awarding of that gazillion-dollar federal Networx telecom contract yesterday didn’t exactly go smoothly for the agency in charge, which couldn’t even pull off a simple conference call (how ironic), or Sprint, which not only got shut out but in the process but looks to be losing as a customer
Today on Layer 8, where we use two cans and a string for most of our communications:Talk about an invasion of privacy. Australia’s second largest telecom vendor Optus is currently struggling to correct a fault in its network that lets customers to eavesdrop on others’ phone calls. Initial reports said the glitch was limited to Optus’ pre-paid mobile service, but smh.com.au readers have described the problem occurring in Optus’ landline network as well.From Microsoft Subnet: Microsoft shareholder: Ballmer must go
MSFTextrememakeover who casts him or herself as a shareholder who has held “underperforming [Microsoft] stock for this entire decade,” has penned a 4,000-word critique of Microsoft.
