Networking World: Firefox Exploit Circulates / Getting Ready For Rita

TECHWEB TODAY: NETWORKING
Friday, Sept. 23, 2005

IN THIS ISSUE
1. Today's Top Story: Hosting Firm Readies For Rita
2. Networking News Of The Week

Breaking News
3. Exploit Circulates For Firefox Flaw
4. Apple Patches Bevy Of Tiger, Panther Bugs
5. Opera Gives Away 1.6 Million Browsers
6. No 'Net Neutrality' Laws Needed, Panel Says

Today's Most Popular Stories
7. Web Metrics Firm Caught In Microsoft Controversy
8. Google Earth Spots Buried Roman Remains
9. Ask Jeeves To Retire Mascot
10. $540 For Hyper-Threading?
11. Bug Gets Mozilla's Bird

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1. TODAY'S TOP STORY: Hosting Firm Readies For Rita
A major Web hosting firm in Houston is taking no chances. It has
hunkered down in preparation for Hurricane Rita, boarded up its data
centers, and sent a small technical team to Kansas to open up shop
there.
http://update.techweb.com/cgi-bin4/DM/y/eqlj0Hi7YQ0G4V0DivT0EO

2. NETWORKING NEWS OF THE WEEK
VoIP Over Wi-Fi Poised To Spread Quickly, VON Conferees Told
VoIP over WiFi networks could soon spread like wildfire to other
municipalities, attendees at the VON Fall 2005 conference in Boston
were told.
http://update.techweb.com/cgi-bin4/DM/y/eqlj0Hi7YQ0G4V0Di6V0EM

Verso Applicance Lets Enterprises Block Skype
Verso Technologies announced an update to their NetSpective content
filtering appliance that the company claims is the first in the
market able to monitor and block the use of Skype on enterprise
networks.
http://update.techweb.com/cgi-bin4/DM/y/eqlj0Hi7YQ0G4V0Di6W0EN

Google Is Building Massive Core Network: Report
Search engine giant Google is said to be in the process of building
what is reported to be one of the world's largest core transport
networks to distribute huge quantities of digital content from
massive server farms.
http://update.techweb.com/cgi-bin4/DM/y/eqlj0Hi7YQ0G4V0Di6X0EO

Borderware Debuts SIP Firewall For VoIP, IP Apps
Borderware Technologies Inc. today unveiled SIPassure 2.0, the latest
version of its Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) firewall, which it
says will help raise the level of security for SIP-based
applications.
http://update.techweb.com/cgi-bin4/DM/y/eqlj0Hi7YQ0G4V0Di6Y0EP

Cisco Simplifies Its Small Business Network Offerings
Networking vendor introduces a line of products, services, support,
and financing designed for the small and midsize business market and
replaces the command-line interface with browser-based management
system.
http://update.techweb.com/cgi-bin4/DM/y/eqlj0Hi7YQ0G4V0Di6Z0EQ

AOL Readies VoIP Service, AIM Overhaul
America Online plans to release a preview edition of Triton, a major
overhaul of the company's popular instant-messaging service.
http://update.techweb.com/cgi-bin4/DM/y/eqlj0Hi7YQ0G4V0Di6a0EX

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BREAKING NEWS
3. Exploit Circulates For Firefox Flaw
An exploit for the just-patched IDN bug in Mozilla's Firefox browser
and namesake suite has been published on the Internet, a French
security vendor says.
http://update.techweb.com/cgi-bin4/DM/y/eqlj0Hi7YQ0G4V0Di6b0EY

4. Apple Patches Bevy Of Tiger, Panther Bugs
Apple patches 10 vulnerabilities in its Mac OS X operating systems
10.3.9 (dubbed Panther) and 10.4.2 (Tiger).
http://update.techweb.com/cgi-bin4/DM/y/eqlj0Hi7YQ0G4V0Di6c0EZ

5. Opera Gives Away 1.6 Million Browsers
Over a million and a half copies of the Opera browser have been
downloaded since the application was offered up free.
http://update.techweb.com/cgi-bin4/DM/y/eqlj0Hi7YQ0G4V0Di6d0Ea

6. No 'Net Neutrality' Laws Needed, Panel Says
Panelists discussing the idea of Network Neutrality laws say that
government might do more harm than good by codifying Internet freedom
guarantees.
http://update.techweb.com/cgi-bin4/DM/y/eqlj0Hi7YQ0G4V0Di6e0Eb

TODAY'S MOST POPULAR STORIES
7. Web Metrics Firm Caught In Microsoft Controversy
Web metrics firm Keynote Systems Inc. has come under fire for not
releasing search-engine rankings, reportedly at the request of
Microsoft Corp., that would have shown the software maker's MSN
search engine slipping to No. 5 from No. 3.
http://update.techweb.com/cgi-bin4/DM/y/eqlj0Hi7YQ0G4V0Di6f0Ec

8. Google Earth Spots Buried Roman Remains
An Italian man using Google Earth spotted the signs of a buried Roman
villa near his home, the science journal Nature reported Wednesday.
http://update.techweb.com/cgi-bin4/DM/y/eqlj0Hi7YQ0G4V0Divf0Eg

9. Ask Jeeves To Retire Mascot
The smiling butler that has welcomed visitors to search engine Ask
Jeeves for nearly 10 years will soon be laid off.
http://update.techweb.com/cgi-bin4/DM/y/eqlj0Hi7YQ0G4V0Di6g0Ed

10. $540 For Hyper-Threading?
From the Wolfe Platform Blog: Is Intel's Hyper-Threading technology,
which is essentially a processor-hosted method of supporting the
simultaneous execution of two threads at one time, worth $540 to you?
http://update.techweb.com/cgi-bin4/DM/y/eqlj0Hi7YQ0G4V0Di6h0Ee

11. Bug Gets Mozilla's Bird
Mozilla Corp.'s Thunderbird e-mail client for Linux suffers from the
same serious vulnerability as its Firefox browser, a security firm
said Thursday. The difference: Thunderbird has not been patched.
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