NetFlash: How vulnerable is the ‘Net?

Opinion
Apr 19, 20052 mins

* How vulnerable is the 'Net? * Cisco routers gain new IOS technology * Start-up to create open source harmony * Vendors, carriers join Intel with WiMAX plans * Today on Layer 8

We all rely on the Internet now – as consumers, as businesses – and probably a lot more than we’d like to admit. But how secure is it really? How vulnerable is it to those who might seek to destroy it (or at least bring it down for a while)? Network World’s Jim Duffy takes a comprehensive look this week. How vulnerable is the ‘Net? http://www.nwfusion.com/news/2005/041805-internet-security.html?net

We all rely on the Internet now – as consumers, as businesses – and probably a lot more than we’d like to admit. But how secure is it really? How vulnerable is it to those who might seek to destroy it (or at least bring it down for a while)? Network World’s Jim Duffy takes a comprehensive look this week.

How vulnerable is the ‘Net?

https://www.nwfusion.com/news/2005/041805-internet-security.html?net

Cisco routers gain new IOS technology

Cisco is bringing the IOS XR router operating system to a new router. This is the first time the next-generation operating system will move beyond the CRS-1.

https://www.nwfusion.com/news/2005/041805-cisco-ios.html?net

Start-up to create open source harmony

A start-up headed by former Marimba CEO Kim Polese is hoping to be the one-stop-shop that companies turn to as they expand the use of open source applications in their data centers.

https://www.nwfusion.com/news/2005/041805-spikesource.html?net

Vendors, carriers join Intel with WiMAX plans

Intel’s commercial launch of a WiMAX wireless broadband chip on Monday brought out several equipment vendors planning products based on the chip as well as service providers saying they will hold trials of the technology.

https://www.nwfusion.com/news/2005/0419vendocarri.html?net

Today on Layer 8, where sticks and stones may break our bones, but comments will never hurt us:

Tivo in talks with Google (gulp); Verizon CEO whines that cell phone customers are too demanding; the history of the Post-It note; and the start of the latest Weekly Caption Contest; all this today and more at your home for not-just-networking news.

https://www.nwfusion.com/weblogs/layer8/?net