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Student evades Cisco NAC, gets suspended
A default setting in Cisco NAC gear allowed a University of Portland student to dodge a security scan by Cisco’s NAC software agent and get on the school network. The exploit was the work of a sophomore who was suspended for doing it, and further use of the weakness has been blocked by changing a setting on the Cisco Clean Access box involved, according to Cisco.
Alleged bomb threats aimed at pumping up 3Com stock
An Iowa man was arrested this week for sending unarmed explosives and menacing letters to investment firms, with threats of actual violence if the firms did not act to raise 3Com’s stock price.
Cisco watchers warn of enterprise slowdown, service provider pressure
Reports from two stock analysts this week point to a possible slowdown in Cisco’s core enterprise business, and pressure for Cisco to meet service provider sales goals – trends which could reflect harder times overall in the IT and networking markets.
Entrepreneurial hackers buy sponsored links on Google
A hacker scheme that involved buying search keywords on Google, then routing users to a malicious site when they clicked on sponsored links, was revealed Wednesday by a security company.
VMware files prospectus for IPO
New details emerged Thursday of virtualization software provider VMware’s plans to sell its stock to the public.
Latest Medicare computer-system glitch costing beneficiaries money
Yet another glitch in Medicare system computers is starting to grab the attention of lawmakers. The latest problem involves Medicare taking extra money, sometimes for months in a row from beneficiaries’ Social Security checks, then not returning it in a timely fashion.
When and why you should roll out 10G Ethernet for storage
Ten Gigabit Ethernet — the latest and fastest version of the ubiquitous data networking protocol — is also coming to the networks that link storage arrays to each other and to servers.
U.S. Army to evaluate Mobile WiMAX use
The U.S. Army’s Communications Electronics Research & Development Engineering Center (CERDEC) will spend several months evaluating Mobile WiMAX for possible military use, according to Samsung, which is supplying the equipment.
Google ‘frantic’ about Personalized Home Page glitch
Google’s Personalized Home Page service, which lets users turn the Google Web site into a customized portal, is suffering from an apparently significant technical problem that is reverting some of the home pages to old versions or to their original default settings.
Podcast
Vonage: We’re Not Dead YetKeith and Jason talk about Vonage’s stay of execution, whether Macs are as secure as people think they are, and whether we should place a bet on the existence of aliens.
Blog
Buzzblog: Google pulls Personalized Home Page service from flames:frantic yesterday over having lost all of their carefully crafted settings. This morning there appears to be a happy ending.
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