* Researchers crafting intelligent WLAN defense through DARPA * Wireless carriers can no longer lock your phone * Analyzing software bugs to death * Companies waste millions in unnecessary telecom charges * Sysadmin of the Year a 'nuts and bolts guy' * Storage performance benchmark helps compare systems * Police raid IBM's Moscow office * Buzzblog: Can't domain name registrars just say 'no'? More discussion * Today on Layer 8
Researchers crafting intelligent, scalable WLAN defense through DARPA
Protecting enterprise wireless networks from increasingly sophisticated attacks is the focus of a Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency research project, a pilot of which is just wrapping up at Dartmouth College. Click here for more.
Score one for consumers: Wireless carriers can no longer lock your phone
If you’re like many people, you have more than one old cell phone stuffed in a desk drawer somewhere in your home. That might be because you’ve switched carriers and your old phone won’t work on the new carrier’s network. Late last month the U.S. Copyright Office issued rules that address this. Carriers, for at least the next three years, will no longer be allowed to “lock” your phone to prevent the device from being used on another carrier’s network. Click here for more.
Analyzing software bugs to death
Our holiday series of offbeat Wider Net stories continues with this look at the Cooperative Bug Isolation project, which – with the aid of a few thousand users who run “instrumented” versions of e-mail clients, music players and other software – is designed to help developers pinpoint the causes of bugs, often down to a specific line of code. Click here for more.
Companies waste millions in unnecessary telecom charges, report finds
Businesses that don’t have full control over their telecom expenses are losing millions to unnecessary telecom charges annually, according to a new report from Aberdeen Group. Click here for more.
Sysadmin of the Year a ‘nuts and bolts guy’
Working in IT can be a thankless job, but Michael Beck earned industry kudos after securing the honorary title Sysadmin of the Year this week. Click here for more.
Storage performance benchmark helps IT buyers compare systems
The Storage Performance Council this week announced a new benchmark for testing storage systems that lets users, resellers and integrators compare the performance of competing devices. The SPC Benchmark-2 (SPC-2) was conceived for testing direct-attached, network-attached and storage-area network systems, as well as storage virtualization technologies, host bus adapters and volume managers. Click here for more.
Police raid IBM’s Moscow office
Police raided IBM’s Moscow headquarters Wednesday, in addition to two other IT suppliers in a $38.18 million investigation into procurement fraud, government officials said Thursday. Click here for more.
Buzzblog: Can’t domain name registrars just say ‘no’? More discussion
First, the head of the Anti-Phishing Working Group contends that the issue is “complex” and he says ICANN policies make solutions difficult. And, the CEO of a registrar that was singled out for registering an obviously phishy name says his company is not the bad guy here.
Today on Layer 8, +6.5 at home this weekend:
Google expands to your airwaves; what Apple’s (allegedly) cooking up for 2007; IM gap divides adults, teens; and anti-drug group accidentally promotes drug use?; all this today and more at your home for not-just-networking news.
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