All Things Gibbs

All Things Gibbs This newsletter is sponsored by Alcatel-Lucent Special Report: Managing VoIP with a Lean Staff Discover how IT executives are managing the riding tide of VoIP and collaborative applications rollouts and operation despite lean network staffs with Network World's latest Special Report "VoIP and Beyond". Click here to download this Special Report. Network World's All Things Gibbs Newsletter, 07/10/07 All Things Gibbs By Mark Gibbs Gearhead: Mice, Xcelsius and dirty pictures Yes indeed, Gearhead is now completely virtualized. We’re online, on time, on target and “en point.” To read this week's Gearhead, click here. Manage Insider Security Threats Experts say 75% of security threats come from inside your organization. Watch the latest Network World Editorial Perspectives Webcast today, "Security From the Inside," and learn which technologies and processes best protect your intellectual property and assets inside the perimeter. Click Here to View Backspin: Forget Big Brother -- Watch out for Big Entertainment Last week I discussed the doublethink and newspeak of “the Campaign to Protect America,” an initiative launched by the Coalition Against Counterfeiting and Piracy as well as the shameful strong-arm bullying tactics of the Recording Industry Association of America. To read this week's Backspin, click here. Gibbsblog: The past 7 days CAPTCHA Cracked It looks like the spammers and scammers have found a way around CAPTCHA, that system used to authenticate a human by requesting them to enter text that they see in an image. Both Microsoft and Yahoo! are reporting that thousands of email accounts have been created and then used to send out spam, even though each uses CAPTCHA to create an account. If this is indeed true, it may spell the end of the reCAPTCHA project. Dolbear's Law It's July in Texas, and the crickets are getting started. Some years they are incredibly thick -- I recall one year, back in the late 70s, when they had to close the Interstate -- crickets so thick and slippery you couldn't drive safely; drifts of crickets over a foot deep along the roadside. Ah, the distinct aroma of dead crickets in the morning; shopkeepers shoveling piles of crickets from the front of their stores... How to solve Windows system crashes in minutes [How to solve Windows system crashes in minutes By Dirk A. D. Smith, Network World, 04/19/05] This gem has made me look like a freakin' Windows god, many times. Dig down behind the crash, learn the whys and the wherefores, find solutions and fix problems. Read it; bookmark it.

TODAY'S MOST-READ STORIES: 1. The mainframe lives! 2. Microsoft to release six security updates 3. Six burning VoIP questions 4. Talking Trojan says 'bye-bye' to victims' data 5. Beijing scores No. 1 spot for malware 6. 15 great, free security programs 7. The $2.3M home lab of Quadruple CCIE 8. Is securing your network worth the money? 9. iPhone launches and AT&T EDGE goes down 10. Security company launches eBay for bugs MOST READ REVIEW: Using Microsoft's OCS as a unified messaging platform

Contact the author: Mark Gibbs is a consultant, author, journalist, and columnist and now blogger: Check out Gibbsblog. Gibbs not only pens (well, keyboards) this newsletter he also writes the weekly Backspin and Gearhead columns in Network World. We’ll spare you the rest of the bio but if you want to know more, go here This newsletter is sponsored by Alcatel-Lucent Special Report: Managing VoIP with a Lean Staff Discover how IT executives are managing the riding tide of VoIP and collaborative applications rollouts and operation despite lean network staffs with Network World's latest Special Report "VoIP and Beyond". Click here to download this Special Report. BONUS FEATURE IT PRODUCT RESEARCH AT YOUR FINGERTIPS Get detailed information on thousands of products, conduct side-by-side comparisons and read product test and review results with Network World’s IT Buyer’s Guides. Find the best solution faster than ever with over 100 distinct categories across the security, storage, management, wireless, infrastructure and convergence markets. Click here for details. PRINT SUBSCRIPTIONS AVAILABLE You've got the technology snapshot of your choice delivered to your inbox each day. Extend your knowledge with a print subscription to the Network World newsweekly, Apply here today. International subscribers, click here. SUBSCRIPTION SERVICES To subscribe or unsubscribe to any Network World newsletter, change your e-mail address or contact us, click here. This message was sent to: networking.world@gmail.com. Please use this address when modifying your subscription. Advertising information: Write to Associate Publisher Online Susan Cardoza Network World, Inc., 118 Turnpike Road, Southborough, MA 01772 Copyright Network World, Inc., 2007