NetFlash: Hack…hack back…repeat

Had to shake my head at an e-mail I got yesterday from the Atlanta Braves baseball team.

Hack…hack back…repeat

Capture the flag might be only a game, but it was serious business at DefCon, the world’s largest annual computer hacker convention. For 36 straight hours, eight teams of experienced hackers and serious security professionals played predator and prey as they tried to hack into competitors’ networks while defending their own.

https://www.nwfusion.com/news/2004/080904defcon.html?net

Campuses face complex regulations

Federal uncertainty over telecom policy has left network executives in higher education pondering cost trends, technology bets and campus infrastructure options.

https://www.nwfusion.com/news/2004/0809regulatory.html?net

Cisco has ‘record-breaking’ quarter

Cisco posted fourth quarter earnings a penny better per share than analyst forecasts on revenue essentially in line with expectations.

https://www.nwfusion.com/news/2004/0810ciscoearn.html?net

Vintela links Unix, Linux, Mac to Microsoft mgmt. platform

Vintela, which writes software to integrate Windows and competing platforms, has developed an extension to Microsoft’s management software so it can service Unix, Linux and Macintosh computers.

https://www.nwfusion.com/news/2004/0810vintela.html?net

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The geeky way to make ice cream; iPod accessories for the fashionable; the lowdown on spam’s rush hour; and IT majors on the decline; all this today and more at your home for not-just-networking news.

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