NetFlash: Questions dog Cisco routers

Heavy fallout continues on several fronts from Michael Lynn’s recent disclosure that unpatched Cisco routers can be subverted by buffer-overflow attacks and shell-code exploits. Among the developments last week: Cisco continually revised its security bulletin, adding details as to how versions of unpatched IOS software could be undermined by a “specifically crafted IPv6 packet.” Sources at Cisco say testing will continue indefinitely and could include findings related to more than simply IPv6-related exploits. Questions dog Cisco routers http://www.networkworld.com/news/2005/080805-cisco-routers.html?net&story=080805-cisco-routers

Heavy fallout continues on several fronts from Michael Lynn’s recent disclosure that unpatched Cisco routers can be subverted by buffer-overflow attacks and shell-code exploits. Among the developments last week: Cisco continually revised its security bulletin, adding details as to how versions of unpatched IOS software could be undermined by a “specifically crafted IPv6 packet.” Sources at Cisco say testing will continue indefinitely and could include findings related to more than simply IPv6-related exploits.

Questions dog Cisco routers

http://www.networkworld.com/news/2005/080805-cisco-routers.html?net&story=080805-cisco-routers

IT staff shortage looming

Outsourcing. Automation. Downsizing. The industry has been awash in unemployed IT pros. But experts are now predicting an IT staffing crunch is just around the corner, and the implications for U.S. technology innovation are sobering.

http://www.networkworld.com/research/2005/080805-it-shortage.html?net&story=080805-it-shortage

Anti-spyware firm warns of massive ID theft ring

Officials at Sunbelt Software, a vendor of anti-spyware tools, said the company stumbled upon a massive ID theft ring that is using a well-known spyware program to break into and systematically steal confidential information from an unknown number of computers worldwide.

http://www.networkworld.com/news/2005/080505-id-theft.html?net&story=080505-id-theft

Cisco mulls acquiring Nokia, report says

Internet equipment maker Cisco is interested in acquiring Nokia, the world largest manufacturer of mobile phones, according to several media reports citing the Sunday Business newspaper.

http://www.networkworld.com/news/2005/080805-cisco-nokia.html?net&story=080805-cisco-nokia

Salesforce.com: the next Microsoft?

Summit Strategies President Tom Kucharvy argues in a new report that the application service provider could pull it off. New Salesforce.com products are giving enterprise developers the tools to create entirely new applications atop the company’s online, ondemand Salesforce and Supportforce applications.

http://www.networkworld.com/weblogs/applications/009708.html

Radio: ITIL realities

This week, Network World Senior Editor Denise Dubie chats with Michele Hudnall, director of service management at software vendor Managed Objects, about the realities of ITIL. Listen in:

http://www.networkworld.com/research/2005/0808radio.html?net&story=0808radio

Today on Layer 8, Category 4 funny:

California auto club fires 27 for Web posts; Microsoft heads to LinuxWorld; Cisco’s Jim Grubb, celebrity look-alike; and the winner of the latest Weekly Caption Contest; all this today and more at your home for not-just-networking news.

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