NetFlash: Cisco warns of hacking toolkit

If you haven’t patched your Cisco software lately, you might want to think about it. Actually you might want to do more than just think about it, as a toolkit has just been released to the public that would help anyone with antisocial tendencies to hack your Catalyst switches or other devices running Cisco’s IOS. Cisco warns of hacking toolkit http://www.nwfusion.com/news/2004/0329ciscohack.html?net

If you haven’t patched your Cisco software lately, you might want to think about it. Actually you might want to do more than just think about it, as a toolkit has just been released to the public that would help anyone with antisocial tendencies to hack your Catalyst switches or other devices running Cisco’s IOS.

Cisco warns of hacking toolkit

https://www.nwfusion.com/news/2004/0329ciscohack.html?net

Networking is a joke

You may not think of networking as funny, but Don McMillan does. He’s a comedian whose target audience is the computer geek. Someone who gets it when someone gives them a high-five – in binary. Someone who appreciates humor delivered via PowerPoint. In this week’s A Wider Net, find out how Don found the funny in our business, even after the dot-com crash.

https://www.nwfusion.com/news/2004/0329widernetcomedy.html?net

Copper versions, lower prices make 10G more tempting

A sharp drop in 10G Ethernet pricing, and the emergence of technology that runs 10G over copper, could spur enterprise interest in the technology, users and analysts say.

https://www.nwfusion.com/news/2004/032910gig.html?net

Q&A: Talking security with Motorola’s William Boni

Being in IT security is more than a full-time job for William Boni. As Motorola’s vice president and chief information security officer, Boni oversees security for a global network supporting 100,000 end users. He also recently helped form an IT security consortium with counterparts from other companies and last week gave a keynote address at the InfoSec World conference in Orlando. Somewhere in between all this, Boni spoke with Network World Senior Editor Ellen Messmer.

https://www.nwfusion.com/news/2004/0329yourtakeboni.html?net

Wireless LAN Switch Showdown

The debate is on at the Wireless LAN Switch Showdown on Network World Fusion. See vendors spar with each other and our panelists in this ongoing debate.

https://www.nwfusion.com/cgi-bin/forum/gforum.cgi?post=1242

Today at “Layer 8,” a supporter of Layer 8 for all by 2007:

Send in your best networking joke and win; “I know Pac-Man and you’re no Pac Man” – video game founding fathers up in arms; free software for writing text adventure games for your iPod; and our new caption contest starring our favorite American Idol, William Hung; all this and more today at your home for not-just-networking news.

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